Core Volunteer Staff
Professional people with a passion for AAPI representation and culture
JANE HO
President
Jane Ho is an expert martial artist, Kung Fu coach, the youngest internationally certified Wushu judge, the first nationally certified female Sanda (Chinese Kickboxing) judge, concert pianist, and a producer of critically acclaimed theater productions promoting Chinese culture, and a proud advocate for AAPI cultural representation.
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She is the founder & president of USCCF, and the former Director of Chinese culture at Arizona Asian American Association.
BONNIE FU
Program Director
Bonnie Fu is a professional talk show host and actress from Hong Kong. She is passionate about promoting AAPI culture in the United States. She currently is the director and owner of one of the largest Chinese martial arts and performing arts academies in the nation and enjoys spending her time teaching and nurturing the younger generations in cultural performing arts.
MASTER HO
Martial Arts Director
Master Ho is a lifelong martial artist and pioneer of Kung Fu in the United States. He is 6 consecutive times US Wushu national champion and the first medalist for the United States at the First World Wushu Championships in Beijing, China. With 40+ years of experience, Master Ho holds a vast knowledge in various martial arts including Wushu, Taichi, Taekwondo, Jeet Kun Do and many other styles.
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Master Ho now dedicates his life to teaching students and helping others experience the benefits of martial arts.
ANNA YAP
M.Ed, PHR, LSSGB,
Volunteer Program Director
Anna Yap comes with 10+ years of program management, Human Resources and operations experience in Healthcare, Finance and Academia. She is most proud of her work to support her front-line physicians through the pandemic as their Operations Program Director. She is also a
translating author of Refocused Psychotherapy as the First Line Intervention, published in 2014.
DR. MATTHEW C WHITAKER
Ph.D, MBE
Outreach Director
Matthew C. Whitaker, Ph.D. is the Founder and CEO of Diamond Strategies, LLC., a Better Business Bureau A+ rated, NSDMC certified Minority Business Enterprise (MBE), and trend-setting inclusion, diversity, equity, and accessibility (IDEA), leadership, Interest-Based-Resolution (IBR), and community relations firm. Diamond Strategies is the Winner of the 2023 Best of Tempe (Arizona) Consultant Hall of Fame Award and has partnered with Fortune 500 companies, non-profits, faith-based institutions, and government.
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Dr. Whitaker is also the Executive Director of the George Washington Carver Museum and Cultural Center in Phoenix. He is an award-winning educator, author, community engagement specialist, motivational speaker, and founder of the Center for the Study of Race and Democracy, winner of the 2014 Arizona Diversity Leadership Alliance (DLA) Inclusive Workplace Award, at Arizona State University, where he was a professor of history for 15 years. Dr. Whitaker earned a B.A. in Sociology, a B.A. in History, and an M.A. in History, at Arizona State University. He earned a Ph.D. in History, with honors, at Michigan State University, and recently completed an Executive Certification Program in Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion at Cornell University.
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Dr. Whitaker founded Diamond Strategies, L.L.C. in May of 2016, to operationalize what he had long done in his writings, classrooms, speeches, and service to the business, non-profit, and municipal worlds, use his unique sociological and historical training (most IDEA professionals have a transactional business and HR backgrounds or clinical training) to help individuals, organizations, and communities, learn and leverage our diverse past and present to promote healing, social cohesion, productivity, and profitability. He is deeply authentic in style and delivery and utilizes his diverse familial background to reach and teach those who have more homogeneous experiences.
For these efforts, he was given the Arizona Diversity Leadership Alliance’s 2016 Diversity and Inclusion Leader Award and the Arizona Collectors 2020 Frederick Douglass Social Justice Award. He specializes in U.S. history, comparative Black history and life, civil rights, race relations, social movements, diversity, equity, and inclusion. He has edited three books, including Hurricane Katrina: America’s Unnatural Disaster, and he is the author of Race Work: The Rise of Civil Rights in the Urban West. He has also authored award-winning articles, penned over 40 opinion pieces, and is currently completing a memoir entitled The Undisputed Truth: A Revolutionary Journey to Black Manhood.
Dr. Whitaker has consulted, spoken, and lectured in Australia, Canada, China, Czech Republic, England, Ghana, and Ireland. Has been featured on CNN, NPR, PBS, WVON, and KEMET, and was given ASU’s 2015 Pioneer Award for working to improve African American life, community, and culture. He is also a co-founder of the Healing Racism Public Dialogue Series, winner of the 2008 National League of Cities Promoting Inclusive Award, and was given the City of Phoenix 2006 Martin Luther King, Jr. Living the Dream Award.
RYAN YAP
M.Ed, LSSGB
Process Consultant
Ryan comes from a background in process management, program development, with 20+ experience in Aerospace, 5+ years experience in high volume consumer goods manufacturing at global sites. He was the lead engineer in setting up four US Mask manufacturing sites in US
through the pandemic.