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PCIM was established in 2000 as a non-profit organization and is governed by a volunteer Board of Directors.
Since February 1999, Dr. Keefer has served as Director of Curriculum and Instruction for the South San Francisco Unified School District, South San Francisco, California. She coordinates the District's K-12 instructional program, including adoption of new curriculum according to the textbook adoption cycle and other District curriculum aligned with District goals and objectives.
From 1995 to January 1999, she was the Director of General Education-Instructional Service and Technology for the Jackson County Intermediate School District, Jackson County, Michigan. From 1979-1995, she served as the School Improvement Coordinator for Calhoun Intermediate School District in Marshall, Michigan.
She served as an Adjunct Professor to Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI on Business Explorations, Futures Technology in Vocational Education, Mastery Learning and Classroom Assessment. She has also served as a consultant to Business and Industry on marketing Education/Management.
She has been active on Professional Associations and Community Boards. Her Ph.D. was earned at Michigan State University in 1978 in Business/Distributive Education.
From 1982 until 1988, Whit Hall was Chief Administrative Officer of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco. Later, he held the position of Executive Director of a major law firm. After relocated to Petaluma, California in 1995, he was elected as a Trustee of the Petaluma Health Care District. He served as co-chair of Petaluma Hospice and currently participates in the leadership of several community service organizations. Whit has also served as President of the Fort Point and Presidio Historical Association.
Whit graduated from the United States Military Academy with a BS in 1957. He received an MA in International Relations from Georgetown University in 1965, and an MBA from Golden Gate University in 1982. Whit Hall retired as a colonel from the Army in 1982, after a military career completed by command of the Presidio of San Francisco garrison. While in the military, he taught politics and government at West Point and the U.S. National War College.
Warren is a partner in the San Francisco and Washington DC (Northern Virginia) offices of Berry, Appleman & Leiden. His practice is corporate immigration law, and he is active in Washington, DC, policy and congressional matters. He is a member of the national steering committee of the Compete America business immigration coalition. He has been active in Congressional debates that led to major immigration legislation in 1986 through 2004 and has testified before Congressional committees on numerous occasions. He was a Member of the U.S. Commission on Immigration Reform (1992-1997), appointed by Congress and chaired by the late Barbara Jordan.
Warren serves on the Board of Governors of the American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA) and is a member of AILA's business litigation committee. He was a member of the U.S. Department of Labor liaison committee for AILA from 1996 to 2001. He was the AILA executive director and Washington representative from 1982-1996 and was a founder and executive vice president of the American Immigration Law Foundation. He serves as Treasurer of the American Immigration Law Foundation. He was named an Honorary Fellow of the American Immigration Law Foundation in 1997. He is a featured speaker at industry and law conferences on business immigration topics.
Warren received his B.A. from Johns Hopkins University in 1971 and his J.D. from Boston University School of Law in 1974.
Dang Pham is Executive Director of the San Francisco Immigrant Rights Commission, and is the first Vietnamese American department head in San Francisco's history. Born in Hue, Vietnam, Dang came to the US in 1975 as a refugee. He began his career as a secondary math teacher and discipline coordinator in Boston Public Schools. In 1986, he was appointed Educational Program Director of the Massachusetts Office for Refugees and Immigrants. He also became the first Asian American appointed as Commissioner of Boston's Fair Housing Commission.
In 1994, Dang served as the Deputy Director/Chief of Staff of the Office of Bilingual Education & Minority Languages Affairs of the US Department of Education in Washington DC. In 1996, he had a one-year assignment at the White House with the Office of Presidential Personnel for outreach to Asian American and Pacific Islander communities.
He was appointed to the Presidential Leadership Circle by the Chairman of the Democratic National Committee. Co-founder of the Vietnamese American Democratic Caucus and the National Vietnamese American Voters League, Dang has received numerous national awards for his strong commitment and advocacy for the language minority community.
Professor Raman received her Ph.D. in South Asian History from UCLA (1992). She is Associate Professor Emerita, History, Santa Clara University, and currently teaches at the University of Georgia, Athens. She designed SCU's first courses on South Asia, including those on Indian women, art, and Asian imperialism. She was an affiliate of the programs on Women and Gender, and Asian Studies, served on the Faculty Senate and inter-disciplinary boards, and supervised student papers for Phi Alpha Theta History Honors Society conferences in California. She has also presented her own research on Indian women and society at academic conferences. Her early work was on Indian labor migration to the British colonies. Her latest publications include the books Women in India: A Social and Cultural History, 2 volumes (Greenwood Press, 2008), Getting Girls to School: Social Reform in the Tamil Districts, 1870-1930, (Stree, 1996); A.Madhaviah: A biography and a novel translated by Vasantha Surya (Oxford University Press, 2004); articles for academic journals, and for the Encyclopedia of India (2005). She received a Fulbright fellowship to study Indians in Trinidad; and another from the American Institute for Indian Studies.
John Tagami is currently a principal of Pathway Strategies, LLC, a full-service governmental affairs firm located in Washington, DC. John has nearly two decades of experience in federal policy development, lobbying and communications. He has served as a Policy Advisor to three U.S. Senators, Communications Director for a U.S. Senate committee, Special Assistant to the Secretary of the Army and Senior Advisor to the Secretary of Commerce.
John is active community affairs, serving as a board member of the National Japanese American Memorial Foundation and a founding board member of the Pacific Coast Immigration Museum. He is a graduate of the University of California-Riverside and holds an advanced degree from the University of Chicago.
John Trasviña is Senior Vice President for Law & Policy at the Mexican American Legal Defense & Educational Fund (MALDEF) in Los Angeles. Previously, he was Western States Regional Director, United States Commission on Civil Rights, Director of the Discrimination Research Center in Berkeley and taught Immigration Law at Stanford Law School.
In 1997, President Clinton appointed Mr. Trasviña as Special Counsel for Immigration Related Unfair Employment Practices, making him the highest-ranking Latino attorney at the U.S. Department of Justice. In the 1980s and 1990s, Mr. Trasviña was General Counsel and Staff Director of the U.S. Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution.
For two decades, John Trasviña has played a major policy role at local and federal levels on immigration and civil rights matters affecting immigrants, women and minority communities. He has written and spoken nationally on topics including immigrant workplace rights, English Only, constitutional law, immigration history, diversity and education. A native of San Francisco, Mr. Trasviña is a graduate of Harvard University and Stanford Law School.
Eugene is the founding principal of Yano Accountancy Corporation, a San Francisco-based consulting and accounting firm. In addition to managing Yano Accountancy Corporation for the past eleven years, his professional career includes 14 years at the Price Waterhouse Coopers LLP, Vice-President and Chief Financial Officer at a publicly-held software services firm, and Director of Strategic Planning at a Midwestern transportation/logistics company. He is also a seminar speaker and lecturer on accounting, auditing, bankruptcy and construction claims issues.
Eugene has served a number of non-profit organizations as board/executive committee member, officer and outside accountant, including the National Japanese American Historical Society, Friends of Presidio 640, Japan Society of Northern California, Asian American Manufacturers Association and Bay Area Bankruptcy Forum.
Eugene is a CPA in California and Michigan, has an MBA degree from the University of Michigan, and a BS degree from San José State University.
Ray Murray is Chief of Partnerships Programs for the Pacific West Region of the National Park Service (NPS). Since 1987, he has coordinated park planning, environmental compliance and fund-raising activities and programs for 48 National Park units in California, Nevada, Hawaii and Arizona. He also managed the Land and Water Conservation Fund, Urban Park and Recreation Recovery Act Program, Federal Lands-to-Parks and Rivers, Trails and Conservation Assistance Program serving those states.
Since 1999, Ray has spearheaded the NPS effort to help develop the Pacific Coast Immigration Museum (PCIM), bringing together the PCIM board, the consultant team, and potential partners and stakeholders.
He has provided leadership in recent years on special initiatives such as Economic Impacts of Parks, Rivers, Trails and Greenways; Visitor Use Management; Conflict Resolution; Brokering Partnerships; Fund Raising; Planned Giving; Recreation and Tourism; and the California Park and Recreation Leadership Institute. Ray has received numerous awards from the Department of the Interior, the National Park Service, the National Parks and Conservation Association, and the California Park and Recreation Society.
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