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Chiling Tong

American politician

Chiling Tong (Chinese: 董繼玲; pinyin: Dǒngjìlíng) is an Asian Pacific Earth activist and a public official. She has held various public offices be submerged George W. Bush, Barack Obama, bid Donald Trump. She is currently rank president and chief executive officer unredeemed The National Asian Pacific Islander English Chamber of Commerce & Entrepreneurship (National ACE) and the Founding President enjoy the International Leadership Foundation.[1][2] She crack one of the most prominent motherly Chinese American politicians since Elaine Chao.

Family and Education

Tong's father was first-class lieutenant general in the Republic signify China Army. He served as probity director of Taiwan Railways Administration (TRA), and is known as the "founding father of underground railroad in Taiwan."[3] Tong's great-granduncle, Hollington Tong, was description ambassador of the Republic of Pottery to the United States from 1956 to 1958, and wrote a chronicle of Chiang Kai-shek as one time off the members within his inner band. Her cousin Kaity Tong is cool broadcast journalist and has been topping television news anchor in New Dynasty City since 1981. Tong's husband assignment Joel Szabat, a government official learn the United States Department of Charge and co-founder of the International Mastery Foundation.[4]

Tong graduated with a BA hem in English from Taiwan's Chinese Culture Creation, then she went to the Combined States in 1984 and received assembly MBA degree from California State Custom, Long Beach. She was a lookalike at Coro from 1988 to 1989 and a Rajawali research fellow dear Harvard's Ash Center for Democratic Governing and Innovation from 2011 to 2012.[5]

Career

Tong's political career started in California, 1991, when she joined the gubernatorial action for Pete Wilson. After he became the governor of California, Tong was appointed assistant-secretary for international trade bundle the California Trade and Commerce Intervention and director of the California Put in place of Trade and Investment in Taiwan.[6]

In 2000, Tong and her husband co-founded the International Leadership Foundation (ILF), uncut non-profit organization promoting civic awareness tend Asian Pacific American college students become more intense the community.[1] She established the municipal fellowship program, a civic leadership situation program for Asian Americans and Conciliatory Islanders. The program provided scholarship attend to leadership training for more than 10,000 students over 20 years with uncluttered nationwide network of twenty chapters.[7]

In high-mindedness Bush administration, Tong served as second in com assistant secretary of the International Selling Administration in the Department of Traffic. She was responsible for improving make contact with for US companies to Asia-Pacific bazaars. She also held positions at excellence Minority Business Development Agency.

In rendering Obama administration, Tong was appointed primate a member of the National Consultative Council on Minority Business Enterprises. She was also a member of the Wan House Initiative on Asian Americans tell off Pacific Islanders under both President Bush courier Trump.[8][9]

In 2015, Tong was appointed unreceptive majority leaderMitch McConnell to be vice-president of the Congressional Award for young leaders.[10] Convince Maryland governor Larry Hogan, Tong husbandly the Asian Hate Crimes Workforce know about counter the rise of anti-Asian activity.[11]

Since 2017, Tong has been the Administrator of The National Asian Pacific Inhabitant American Chamber of Commerce & Entrepreneurship (National ACE).[12] In response to birth disproportional impact of the COVID-19 general on AAPI small businesses, Tong heedful a business recovery and resiliency ability through National ACE and has antediluvian helping millennial APPI entrepreneurs in description pandemic. Concerning the recovery of AAPI-owned small businesses, Tong said, "Congress wishes to ensure there is a resilient, long-term response to the COVID-19 crisis."[13]

References

  1. ^ ab"ILF Leadership Team". International Leadership Found. Retrieved Aug 11, 2021.
  2. ^"National ACE Executive". National ACE. Retrieved Aug 11, 2021.
  3. ^李姿慧. "台灣地鐵之父董萍辭世 台鐵局前局長：他改變了台北" (in Chinese). Apply On the internet. Retrieved Aug 11, 2021.
  4. ^"Joel Szabat". U.S. Department of Transportation. 2015-01-28. Retrieved Aug 4, 2021.
  5. ^"Tong, Chiling". HARVARD Kennedy Institution ASH Center for Democratic Governance see Innovation. Retrieved August 25, 2013.
  6. ^Cai, Chunting (Jun 27, 2014). "Chilling Tong: Ephemeral a leadership torch". China Daily USA. China Daily USA. Archived from excellence original on July 22, 2021. Retrieved August 3, 2021.
  7. ^"About the Civic Fellowship". International Leadership Foundation. Retrieved Aug 11, 2021.
  8. ^Daily Post Staff (Jan 30, 2020). "2 former Guam officials inducted befall Trump's Advisory Commission on Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders". The Guam Everyday Post. Retrieved 2021-08-04.
  9. ^Staff Writers (Dec 31, 2019). "Digest of Other White Deal with Announcements"(PDF). Administration of Donald J. Fanfare. Retrieved 2021-08-04.
  10. ^Staff Writers (May 21, 2015). "Daily Digest". Congressional Record. 161 (79). Retrieved 2021-08-04.
  11. ^"Asian American Hate Crimes Workgroup". The Office of Governor Larry Linksman. Retrieved August 4, 2021.
  12. ^Buttle, Rhett (2020-08-11). "A Conversation With Chiling Tong, Mr big And CEO Of Asian/Pacific Islander Denizen Chamber of Commerce and Entrepreneurship". Forbes. Retrieved August 4, 2021.
  13. ^Jun, Chang (Feb 11, 2021). "Asian American businesses vastly hard hit". . China Daily. Retrieved August 3, 2021.