2014 Faith and Community Impact Award Honorees:
Rev. Samuel In Hwan Choi
President, Council of Korean Churches of Greater Washington Senior Pastor, Columbia Korean Baptist Church |
Leading Pastor, Columbia Korean Baptist Church
International College Graduate School of Theology President of Washington Council of Churches Former President, Korean Baptist Church Council Former President, Virginia Local Assembly Doctor of Ministry / International College Graduate School of Theology Under his leadership he raised $60,000 to help victims from the phillipines disaster. |
Congresswoman Judy Chu
U.S. House of Representatives California, 27th District |
Judy Chu was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in July 2009. She represents the 27th Congressional District, which includes Pasadena and the west San Gabriel Valley of southern California.
Rep. Chu currently serves on the House Judiciary Committee, where she is a member of the Subcommittees on Intellectual Property and the Internet as well as Crime, Terrorism, Homeland Security and Investigations. She also serves on the House Small Business Committee, which has oversight of the Small Business Administration. Rep. Chu is the Ranking Member on the Subcommittee on Economic Growth, Tax and Capital Access. She is also a member of the Subcommittees on Contracting and Workforce as well as Investigations, Oversight and Regulations. In 2011, Chu was elected Chair of the Congressional Asian Pacific American Caucus, which advocates for the needs and concerns of the Asian American and Pacific Islander community across the nation. Chu founded and co-chairs the Congressional Creative Rights Caucus, which advocates for the copyright protections of those in the creative industries, such as music, film and visual arts. She also serves in leadership of the House Democratic Caucus as a Member of the Steering and Policy Committee. Chu was first elected to the Board of Education for Garvey School District in 1985. From there, she was elected to the Monterey Park City Council, where she served as Mayor three times. She then was elected to the State Assembly and then California’s elected tax board, known as the State Board of Equalization. In 2009, she became the first Chinese American woman elected to Congress in history. |
Timothy H. Haahs
President / CEO Timothy Haahs & Associates, Inc. |
Mr. Haahs serves as President/CEO of Timothy Haahs & Associates, Inc. (TimHaahs), a multi-disciplined engineering and architectural design firm specializing in the planning, design and restoration of parking and mixed-use structures. Mr. Haahs is also Founding Pastor of Calvary Vision Church in Blue Bell, PA.
Mr. Haahs started TimHaahs in 1994, and the first thing developed was the mission statement, which remains today, “We exist to help those in need.” The firms focus is on the design of parking and mixed-use structures that serve as “people places,” places that attract people and encourage them to return. Mr. Haahs utilizes structured parking as a gateway to patrons’ ultimate destination, and seeks to enliven both the façade and pedestrian experience for all visitors and patrons. As a licensed professional engineer and registered architect, Mr. Haahs’ experience includes not only the design of structures, but also the master planning of urban areas, transit-oriented developments and corporate and educational campuses. In addition, Mr. Haahs was named Structural Engineer of the Year by the American Society of Civil Engineers that year. Most recently, Mr. Haahs was selected to work with the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP) to develop its Low Carbon Green Growth Roadmap for Asia and the Pacific. He led a team to prepare a policy paper entitled Green Growth for Sustainable Cities: Urban Planning Strategies to Mitigate Climate Change, which served as a significant resource for the development of the Roadmap. As a result of TimHaahs’ research, the Roadmap includes such critical topics as effective parking planning, mixed-use integration, walkability, and other strategies related to the importance of proactive infrastructure planning and development. |
Congressman Mike Honda
U.S. House of Representatives California, 17th District |
Congressman Mike Honda represents California’s 17th district, which includes Silicon Valley – the leading region for tomorrow’s technologies. He serves on the powerful House Appropriations Committee, and is Chair Emeritus of the Congressional Asian Pacific American Caucus. He chairs CAPAC’s Immigration Task Force, and authored the Reuniting Families Act. Congressman Honda ensured that President Obama’s historic healthcare reform addressed AAPI health disparities and cultural, language barriers.
Since being held in Japanese American internment camps during World War II, he has championed civil rights. For over 20 years, he advocates to bring justice to “Comfort Women” survivors. Congressman Honda introduced H.Res.121 – the “comfort women resolution,” which passed unanimously in 2007, and secured a provision in the Fiscal Year 2014 spending bill which urges the Secretary of State to encourage the Government of Japan to address the issues raised in H.Res.121. As a senior AAPI Member of Congress and previous seven-year DNC Vice-Chair, Congressman Honda advocated for increased AAPI representation at all levels of our government. |
Jane Hyun
Founder and President, Hyun & Associates Author, "Breaking the Bamboo Ceiling" |
Jane Hyun is a leadership strategist and coach to Fortune
500 companies, MBA programs, and nonprofits. She helps organizations grow their
bottom line and achieve productivity through the effective deployment of human
capital. For the past 10 years, her
signature programs (Bamboo Ceiling Leadership Series & Art of Cultural
Fluency™ roundtables) have received international acclaim from clients in a
variety of sectors, including consumer products, professional services, retail,
media, technology, financial services, and healthcare. She serves as an advisor
to management teams and diversity councils about Asian, women, and
multicultural talent strategy.
Prior to starting this consulting firm, she was VP of Human Resources/Talent at JP Morgan, and Director of Recruiting at Deloitte and Resources Global. Jane graduated from Cornell University with a degree in Economics, and serves on the Women’s Alumnae council. Jane appears regularly in a variety of media outlets, including CNN, CNBC, NPR, Wall St. Journal, Forbes, Fortune, and Washington Post on the topics of leadership, authenticity, and culture, and is an advisor to the Toigo Foundation and the Center for Talent Innovation. Her groundbreaking book, Breaking the Bamboo Ceiling, opened up the dialogue for Asians in corporate America. She is co-author of Flex/The New Playbook for Managing Across Differences (Mar. 2014). Jane is passionate about helping individuals realize their fullest potential in their workplaces and their communities. |
Shara Pradhan
Casting Director, iBethel TV Producer, Director, Writer - Iris Global |
Shara Lea Pradhan attended Princeton University and burned
to see another Student Volunteer Missions movement crash on the shores of our
universities and see her generation won for Jesus. She helped mobilize the Call
Mozambique and Uganda, mobilizing prayer gatherings on the campuses of America,
and tag-team ministered with Heidi at all the Ivy League campuses to reach
Asian American students. Preaching in the Iris Global Missions school, she
longs to see people give their lives for love's sake.
She has vowed her life to love Jesus the way He deserves and be as close to Him as humanely possible, while loving others with the very love of the Father. She is the Producer, Director and writer for Iris Globa Film's first feature length documentary "Compelled by Love," as well as the Casting Director for iBethel TV. Shara co-authored Compelled by Love with Heidi Baker after serving as Heidi's personal assistant for nearly five years and traveling the world ministering with her, is featured on the film Finger of God, and wants to love Jesus so lavishly that she takes an ocean of people home to heaven – That the Lamb might receive the just reward of His sufferings. |
Congressman Ed Royce
U.S. House of Representatives California, 39th District |
U.S. Representative Ed Royce [R] is serving his eleventh term in Congress representing California's 39th District, based in Orange, Los Angeles, and San Bernardino Counties. Congressman Royce's priorities include: addressing our naional debt, protecting our homeland, eliminating pork-barrel spending, improving our children's schools, spurring job creation and strengthening Social Security and Medicare.
Congressman Royce is currently the Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, a committee he has been a member of since 1993. Prior to becoming Chairman of the Committee, Royce served as Chairman of the Subcommittee on Terrorism, Non-proliferation, and Trade and a member of the Subcommittee on Asia and the Pacific A California native, Royce is a graduate of California State University, Fullerton. His professional background includes experience as a small business owner, a controller, a capital projects manager, and a corporate tax manager. Royce and his wife, Marie, have been married for 28 years. |
Chinese Baptist Church of Orange County
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The Christian Youth Fellowshihp [CYF] at Chinese Baptist Church of Orange County studied Scripture in area of God's justice, and prayerfully began a campaign to raise awareness and funds to fight against the sex trafficking of children. After studying through the Interntional Justice Missions Youth curriculum, the youth learned that $1000 could help free a child from bondage. A dream was set to help free 100 children, and the campaign Raise 100k to Free 100 was started. The youth started garnering support by telling their friends school clubs, churches, businesses, and local councilmen about different fund raising events. The youth began with bake sales, garage sales, boba tea sales, car washes, basketball tournaments, craft sales, silent auctions and benefit concerts. A verse that motivated them is found in Proverbs 14:31 - "Whoever oppresses the poor shows contempt for their Maker, but whoever is kind to the needy honors God."
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