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2005 Woman Warriors
Jeanette Dong – Public Policy
Jeanette Dong has been involved in public policy for 20 years – her accomplishments include directing a county children’s agency, administering an immigrant health program for Asian Health Services, and managing governmental affairs for the Port of Oakland. Currently, Jeannette is policy director for Team-Up for Youth, a nonprofit funder of physical activity programs in San Francisco and Alameda counties. The achievements in which she takes most pride include negotiating for the first state funding to address African-American infant mortality in California and working with local and state officials to provide disaster relief for the victims of the 1991 Oakland fire. Jeanette is a passionate advocate for increasing Asian Pacific Islander political representation in California. She is currently helping push for legislation that would prohibit the discrimination of girls in community athletics.
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Dianne Fukami – Media
A member of the media for more than 25 years, Dianne has received a national Emmy nomination plus numerous awards including a Regional Emmy and CINE Golden Eagle Award for her work. After graduating from UC Berkeley’s School of Journalism, Dianne got her start in the KPIX-TV newsroom. When she left in 1991, she had risen to Assistant News Director, the number two person in the newsroom and one of the highest ranking Asian American television news executives in the nation.
Dianne has gone on to produce, direct, and write a number of documentaries on the Asian American experience including “Separate Lives, Broken Dreams,” about the Chinese Exclusion Act. Dianne co-founded Bridge Media, Inc. in 1994 and recently completed the first season of “Pacific Fusion,” a weekly television program showcasing the API experience.
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Jennie Chin Hansen – Health and Human Services
In 2005, Jennie Chin Hansen retired as executive director of On Lok, Inc., which culminated a 25-year career with the nonprofit family of organizations providing comprehensive primary, acute and long-term care community based services to nearly 950 frail seniors and 5,000 well seniors throughout San Francisco. Jennie Chin Hansen now serves on the nursing faculty at San Francisco State University and as a Senior Fellow at the University of California Center for the Health Professions.
Jennie also serves in various leadership roles with organizations including AARP, the Advisory Board of the Institute for the Future of Aging Services, the Robert Wood Johnson Executive Nurse Fellows Program and the California Health Care Foundation Health Care Fellows Program. She holds or had held numerous other volunteer positions including president of the American Society on Aging and founding board member of the National PACE (Program of All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly) Association.
Among Jennie’s numerous public and community service awards are the 2004 San Francisco SPUR award, the 2002 Gerontological Society of America’s Maxwell Pollack Award for Productive Aging, the Women’s Healthcare Executive Woman of the Year of Northern California in 2000, and Women Who Could be President Honoree from the League of Women Voters of San Francisco in 1997.
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Sally Yu Leung – Arts
Sally Yu Leung has an extensive background in Asian art. She is currently a Commissioner of the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, where she has also served as senior docent for 20 years. Much of the public’s exposure to Asian Art was likely touched by Sally’s hand. She has organized and curated numerous exhibitions, including exhibitions at the San Francisco’s Chinese Culture Center, the Denver Art Museum, the San Diego Chinese Historical Museum, and the Oakland Museum of California.
Sally’s warm influence expands beyond the museum world. From 1983 – 2000, she was a board member of the Chinese American International School, serving as Acting Head in the mid-80’s. She is also a Chinese calligraphy instructor for Pixar Animation Studios and in 2004 was the consultant and chief designer for the Interior Cultural Enhancement Project at the International School of Beijing in Shunyi, China.
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Susan Shirasawa Muranishi –
Government
In 1995, Susan Muranishi was appointed by the Alameda County Board of Supervisors to the position of County Administrator, where she provides leadership and input to the Board of Supervisors, Agency and Department Heads, and the public fiscal and administrative policy group.
Alameda County has a population of 1.5 million with over 9,000 employees and a budget of $1.9 billion. As County Administrator, Susan has the daunting task of providing the direction and strategic management necessary to further the Alameda County Board of Supervisors’ policies and to deliver services.
This Woman Warrior generously and expansively leads via a number of advisory and board positions in the areas of women, family resources, education and community service.
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Katie Quan – Labor
Katie Quan is Chair of the Labor Center, an outreach arm of the University of California at Berkeley that seeks to improve the lives of working people by linking the University's resources to labor and community efforts for social and economic equity. Katie has worked there since 1998, specializing in the areas of labor strategies in the global economy, policies that promote the rights of immigrant workers and equity issues for women workers.
Prior to joining the Labor Center, Katie rose through the ranks of the garment workers’ union now known as UNITE (the Union of Needletrades, Industrial and Textile Employees), from rank-and-file seamstress to international vice president. Her organizing experiences have been documented by Ruth Milkman in “Women in Unions” (Cornell ILR Press, 1993) and by Xiaolan Bao in “Holding Up More than Half the Sky” ( University of Illinois Press, 2001). Katie also teaches at U.C. Berkeley and is a widely published writer and lecturer.
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