Cecilia Chung is Deputy Director of Transgender Law Center (TLC). TLC is a civil rights organization advocating for transgender communities. TLC connects transgender people and their families to technically sound and culturally competent legal services, increases acceptance and enforcement of laws and policies that support California's transgender communities, and works to change laws and systems that fail to incorporate the needs and experiences of transgender people.
An openly trans and HIV+ woman, Chung was a member of the Transgender Discrimination Task Force in 1994 that lead to a groundbreaking report by the SF Human Rights Commission. She has worked for UCSF AIDS Health Project as HIV test counselor and residential counselor for Ferguson Place, a residential treatment program for people living with HIV where she successfully increased the agencies' sensitivity for transgender people.
In 1998, Chung joined the Board of Directors of San Francisco LGBT Pride Celebration Committee. In 2001, she became the first Asian and first transgender woman elected as President of the Board and led the organization to a new standard of inclusion and excellence. Chung is one of the producers of Transgender March, one of San Francisco's largest transgender events, and in 2005, produced the first ever Trans Stage at San Francisco Pride. She also serves the Board of Directors of Asian and Pacific Islander Wellness Center and the San Francisco Human Rights Commission.
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