2016 AAJA National Convention

Karthick Ramakrishnan is Associate Dean and Professor of Public Policy at the University of California, Riverside. His research focuses on civic participation, immigration policy, and the politics of race, ethnicity, and immigration in the United States. Ramakrishnan directs the National Asian American Survey and is founder of AAPIdata.com, which seeks to make policy-relevant data on Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders more accessible to a... Read More →

Mayor Edwin M. Lee is the 43rd Mayor of the City and County of San Francisco, and is the first Asian-American mayor in San Francisco history. | | Mayor Lee has championed creating jobs, growing the economy, improving the quality of life for everyone, and ensuring San Francisco remains a safe, solvent and successful City.

Seema Mehta is a political writer for the Los Angeles Times. She covered the 2016, 2012 and 2008 presidential campaigns, as well as gubernatorial, Senate and mayoral races. The Syracuse University graduate joined the Times in 1998.

Shekar Narasimhan is a businessman/entrepreneur who has spent many years promoting sound public policy in the United States. He has been Co-Chair of the Democratic National Committee’s Indo-American Leadership Council and in leadership roles in the Obama campaign and the Hillary Clinton campaign to help bring together the disparate but fast-growing AAPI community. He is founder and Chairman of the recently-formed AAPI Victory Fund which... Read More →