Miriam Yeung
Executive Director
Miriam W. Yeung, MPA, is the Executive Director of NAPAWF. Prior to this position, Miriam had a ten year career at the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center in New York City, where she was most recently the Director of Public Policy and Government Relations. In that position, she was responsible for the advocacy, community education and government relations work of the Center – including Promote the Vote, one of the country’s oldest and largest LGBT voter education and mobilization projects, and Causes in Common, a national project which seeks to build working alliances between the reproductive rights and LGBT liberation movements.

Prior to that position, Miriam provided direct services in the Center’s Youth Enrichment Services Program for seven years and was the driving force behind its Safe Schools Campaign, which seeks to erase hate and homophobia from schools through the empowerment, training and support of youth leaders. Miriam has also co-produced a documentary about the queer youth community of NYC entitled “I Look Up to the Sky Now.”

Born in Hong Kong and raised in the projects of Brooklyn, Miriam is a proud queer, Asian American, immigrant woman activist who is committed to social justice movement building. Miriam received her Master’s in Public Administration at Baruch College and her B.A. in psychology/pre-med at NYU.

Wen-Hua Yang
Finance and Operations Director
As NAPAWF’s Finance and Operations Director, Wen-Hua oversees the financial and administrative functions of the organization. Wen-Hua spent the last 10 years working and volunteering for various social justice organizations, including stints at Human Rights Watch, National Advocates for Pregnant Women and the New York Asian Women’s Center. She has also traveled extensively in China, where she interned at the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) and honed her Mandarin. In her free time Wen-Hua enjoys cooking, reading and traveling.

Wen-Hua received her Master’s in Public Administration from New York University, and a B.A. in Asian Studies and Religion from Mount Holyoke College.

Bonnie Chan
Community Organizer
Bonnie became interested in health issues while earning B.A.s in History and Mass Communications at UC Berkeley, where she gained exposure to communicative friends, life-changing classes, and growing awareness of the ways cultural and media networks contribute to distorted discussions of health and sexuality. She worked in print editing after graduating from college, and has done volunteer work with Planned Parenthood Golden Gate, the campaigns to defeat all three California parental notification initiatives, and the San Francisco AIDS Foundation. She became involved with NAPAWF in 2006 when she joined the staff of the California Young Women’s Collaborative, a college-based research and social action project centered around young API women’s health. Bonnie also volunteers as an HIV prevention counselor and collective member of the Berkeley Free Clinic.

Amanda Allen
Reproductive Justice/Women’s Law and Public Policy Fellow

Amanda is the 2009-2010 Reproductive Justice Fellow/Georgetown Women’s Law and Public Policy Fellow at NAPAWF. Amanda attended City University of New York (CUNY) School of Law, where she focused on legal issues surrounding women’s rights and reproductive rights.  During law school, Amanda advocated for victims of teen dating abuse at Day One, provided direct legal services to low-income immigrant women at the Sex Workers Project, and performed policy and legal research at the Center for Reproductive Rights.  Amanda also worked in a litigation team in the International Women’s Human Rights Clinic at CUNY Law, and was an Executive Articles Editor of the New York City Law Review.

Prior to joining NAPAWF, Amanda was the first Fellow at Law Students for Reproductive Justice (LSRJ), where she developed educational materials, including authoring LSRJ’s first Human Rights Primer, advocated for new law courses in reproductive rights, and provided support for student research and scholarship in reproductive justice.  She is the author of A Plan C for Plan B: A Feminist Legal Response to the Ways in Which “Behind-the-Counter” Emergency Contraception Fails Women, which appeared in the New York City Law Review.  Her writings have also appeared on RH Reality Check.  Amanda graduated with a B.A. in Sociology from the University of Minnesota, and is a member of the New York bar.