Michael Byun is Executive Director of Asian Counseling and Referral Service (ACRS), a leading social justice organization in Washington state, and has worked for nearly 25 years on health disparities, social justice, and immigrant and refugee issues, with a focus on A&NHPI (Asians & Native Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders) and other underserved communities.Before his ACRS appointment in December 2018, Mr. Byun spent 15 years leading Asian Services in Action (ASIA), Inc., the largest health and social services agency in Ohio focused on empowering A&NHPI, immigrants, and refugees. As Executive Director and then CEO, he led key initiatives and coalition-based statewide civic engagement campaigns that expanded workforce and job training programs, filled a critical gap to support A&NHPI survivors of domestic violence and sexual assault, established annual Ohio A&NHPI Legislative Days, and opened the first-ever federally qualified health center in Ohio for A&NHPI immigrant and refugee communities.Mr. Byun has also served on several state and national boards and advisories within the A&NHPI community. Previously, he was appointed by Ohio Governor John Kasich as chair of the Ohio AAPI Advisory Council, and in 2014 was appointed by President Barack Obama to the President's Advisory Commission on Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders. Mr. Byun earned his MPA from the University of Washington and is a German Marshall Fund Fellow and a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Fellow.