Founder and Co-Organizer, APA Justice
Retired Federal Government Official

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Dr. Jeremy S. Wu, a long-time civil rights advocate, founded APA Justice in 2015 to address racial profiling and fairness issues for the Asian Pacific American community. He is a member of the Committee of 100 and was elected Senior Fellow of the National Academy of Public Administration in 2022.

Jeremy was a senior federal executive, retiring from the Census Bureau after also serving at the Departments of Transportation, Energy, and Agriculture. His pioneering Big Data work at the Census Bureau included an online mapping application recognized as a major U.S. statistical innovation at the United Nations in 2009.

Jeremy was Civil Rights Director at the U.S. Department of Transportation after 9/11, serving as principal advisor to Secretary Norman Mineta on civil rights and equal opportunity. He later served as Acting Chief Statistician. From 2000 to 2002, he was National Ombudsman for the U.S. Department of Energy and advisor to Secretary Bill Richardson during the Wen Ho Lee case.

Jeremy became the first Asian Pacific American career senior executive at USDA in 1997, serving as Deputy Director from 1997 to 2000 after 15 years as Chief Statistician. His work with China led to China lifting its wheat embargo in 1999.

Jeremy holds a PhD in Statistics from George Washington University and served three terms as Chair of the Asian American Government Executives Network. Born in Hong Kong, he speaks fluent Cantonese and Mandarin. He is married to the former Deanie Pin and lives in McLean, Virginia.

Product Developer, APA Justice

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Charlotte manages APA Justice’s online presence and digital strategy, including web, social media, and web content management system.

In 2023, she joined APA Justice as an intern working on web design and content management. She was retained as a Web Developer following the internship and was named Product Developer in 2025 to focus on digital strategy and workflow management using new technologies including AI.

Charlotte is passionate about using technologies to make information more accessible and help mission-driven organizations expand their impact.

Alongside her work with APA Justice, Charlotte has worked as a software engineer on a research project with UC Law San Francisco and the Center for Negotiation & Dispute Resolution, where she built an AI-powered negotiation simulation platform. The project explores how AI can reason through complex, open-ended negotiation scenarios and has been used in advanced negotiation classes.

Charlotte recently graduated from Cornell University with a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science and a minor in Data Science. She was recently selected as a Claude Corps fellow, to participate in a 12-month fellowship with Anthropic that places early-career technologists with nonprofit organizations to develop AI tools and systems that advance their missions. Through the fellowship, she hopes to continue exploring how emerging technology can be thoughtfully applied to social-impact work.

Communications Associate, APA Justice

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Madeleine Gable researches issues and develops content for APA Justice’s Newsletters, social media and website.

Driven by a commitment to social justice, Madeleine joined APA Justice as a Communications Intern in October 2024 and was retained as a Communications Associate in 2025. She has researched pressing policy and legal developments, built visualization tools for the APA Justice website content, and written for its website and newsletters.

In summer 2026, Madeleine served as a Global Affairs Intern at the Investment Company Institute, the trade association for the U.S. regulated funds industry, where she researched and analyzed financial regulation across six continents.

She is currently a senior at New York University (NYU), studying International Relations with minors in Economics and Chinese. A Dean’s List student in NYU’s departmental honors program, she is writing her senior thesis on private credit and sovereign lending in China’s international finance strategy.

Raised in California, Madeleine spent three years in Vancouver, where she began learning Mandarin and continued after returning home. Mandarin has since anchored her academic and professional path: she completed an eight-credit advanced Chinese immersion program at NYU Shanghai one summer, then returned for a full semester during her junior year, sharpening her understanding of how law, policy, and finance shape cross-border business.

After graduation, Madeleine plans to pursue a legal career in financial governance and international business, advocating for a range of clients and working to make the financial system more fair and accessible.

Government Affairs and Community Relations Manager, APA Justice

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Harrison Vijay Tsui leads the organization’s advocacy and relational efforts with stakeholder groups, media, and elected officials.

He previously served as an APAICS fellow for Congresswoman Judy Chu (CA-28) where he advised health care, immigration, environmental, and Asian American policy. During his time with the Congresswoman, he championed civil rights legislation including a Congressional resolution recognizing the Rock Springs Chinese Massacre of 1885.

Before working on Capitol Hill, Harrison was a regional organizer for Vice President Kamala Harris’ presidential campaign and President Joe Biden’s presidential reelection campaign in Philadelphia. He was then named a Blueline Fellow for his work and selected to the DCCC Asian American Action Cohort in recognition of his AANHPI engagement.

Harrison previously served as a graduate consultant for the Estonian Ministry of Foreign Affairs working on government innovation and e-governance. Prior to policy and public service, Harrison was a New York City journalist where his work can be found on Malcolm Gladwell’s Revisionist History, NBC News 4 New York, WNYC, StoryCorps, Feet in 2 Worlds, the Asian American Writers’ Workshop, and NPR’s TED Radio Hour and How I Build This.

He holds his dual master’s degrees in international affairs and journalism from Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs and Graduate School of Journalism, and his bachelor’s degree in journalism from New York University. Harrison lives in Lower Manhattan and can be found at Ornithology Jazz Club and playing basketball in Chinatown.

Developer, APA Justice

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Ryan Zhao primarily works on APA Justice’s technology and digital initiatives, developing and maintaining the organization’s website, internal tools, and technical projects. 

Since 2023, he has been working with APA Justice to support the documentation and dissemination of important Asian American issues. He helped build the APA Justice website and content management system, developing features including APA Justice's virtual library and LLM chatbot. Recently, he has been working on internal tools and agentic solutions to improve access to information, organizational workflows, and the organization’s broader digital capabilities. 

Ryan is a senior pre-med student majoring in Computer Science and minoring in Philosophy at the University of Texas at Austin. Interested in healthcare and tech, he has researched machine learning methods for cancer characterization at MD Anderson and leads an AI team working on Brain Computer Interface systems at UT's largest Neurotechnology organization. He works as a medical assistant at a cardiology clinic serving primarily Asian patients in Houston.

Ryan enjoys the piano and playing sports, with soccer, golf, and table tennis his favorites.