Stewart Kwoh
Stewart Kwoh is co-executive director of the Asian American Education Project and is president emeritus of Asian Americans Advancing Justice-L.A., which he led for 35 years and built into the largest Asian American civil rights organization in the U.S. He is nationally known for work on hate crimes, human trafficking, and race relations. In 1998, he became the first Asian American attorney awarded a MacArthur Foundation "genius grant." In 1983, he served as co-counsel for American Citizens for Justice and Lily Chin, the mother of Vincent Chin.