Asian American Justice Center (Formerly National Asian Pacific American Legal Consortium)

http://www.advancingequality.org

Founded in 1993, the Consortium is a non-profit, non-partisan organization headquartered in Washington, D. C. Its mission is to advance the legal and civil rights of the nation's approximately 8.8 million Asian Pacific Americans. The Consortium and its three regionally based affiliates; San Francisco, New York City, and Los Angeles collectively have more than 50 years of experience in providing legal services, community education, and advocacy on a number of issues.

On October 6, 2005, NAPALC changed its name to the Asian American Justice Center (AAJC). AAJC is considered one of the nation's leading experts on issues of affecting Asian American community and one that offers a Pan-Asian perspective on issues such as hate crimes and race relations, affirmative action, immigration and immigrant rights, language access, census and voting rights.

Karen Narasaki
A graduate of Yale and the UCLA School of Law Ms. Narasaki is the Executive Director of the National Asian Pacific American Legal Consortium. Before joining the Consortium she was the Washington, D.C. representative for the Japanese American Citizens League (JACL). She directed JACL's national advocacy program and served on the Executive Committee of the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights. She worked as a corporate attorney at Perkins Cole in Seattle, Washington and began her career as a law clerk to Judge Harry Pregerson on the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in Los Angeles. She has served on the boards of the National Asian Pacific American Bar Association, the Asian Bar Association of Washington, the Asian Pacific American Legal Center of Southern California, and the Organization of Pan Asian American Women.