Our Team
Our Staff
ARIAGNA CANTORAN
Executive Assistant
Ariagna joined the Power Fund as the Executive Administrator in late 2023. She is a dedicated and multi-faceted bilingual professional skilled in the nonprofit sector. Her expertise spans the realms of executive support, administration, operations, and project management. Throughout her career, she has demonstrated a remarkable ability to streamline executive office operations, manage project timelines, and ensure seamless administrative services. With a proven track record, Ariagna has supported high-level executives, efficiently handled contract deliverables, audits, and orchestrated board and leadership meetings, and events. Her ability to act as a liaison to public officials has been instrumental in establishing strong external relationships. Most recently, she was the Special Assistant to the Executive Director at the Funders’ Committee for Civic Participation. Prior to that, Ariagna served as an Operations Manager and Executive Assistant for Reach Out, a nonprofit based in Upland, California.
In addition to her professional accomplishments, Ariagna enjoys staying active, attending her boys’ basketball games, and cherishing moments with her family.
ROBIN DAVID
Resource Mobilization Associate
Robin joined the Power Fund in 2024 with ten years of experience in arts non-profits, development, and customer relationship management. Before the AAPI Fund, Robin was the Individual Giving Officer at the Center for Asian American Media (CAAM), Coordinator of Development at SFJazz, and the CRM Operations Manager at SFMOMA. Robin is a Filipinx American born in Oakland, California, and now based in Emeryville, California, Huchiun, in unceded Lisjan Territory on Ohlone land. Robin received a BA in Studio Art at San Francisco State University in 2014. Outside of her work in Resource Mobilization, Robin is a multidisciplinary artist and the co-founder of the art collective Macro Waves. Founded in 2015, Macro Waves produces experiences centered on social practice, conceptual art, new media, and design. As artists, designers, and technologists of color, the collective embraces collaboration in their creative practice of transforming spaces into places for human connection, exploration, and play.
PRISCILLA HUNG
Resource Mobilization Director
Priscilla joined the Power Fund in 2023 with 25 years of experience in mobilizing resources for social justice through fundraising, capacity-building, and grantmaking. Most recently, Priscilla served as Co-Director of Move to End Violence, a program of the NoVo Foundation operated by The Raben Group. Prior to that, she was a program director at Community Partners and executive director of the Grassroots Institute for Fundraising Training. She has served on the boards and advisory boards of the Hate Is A Virus Community Action Fund, Los Angeles Asian American & Pacific Islander Giving Circle, National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy, and National Asian Pacific American Women’s Forum. She has a B.A. from UC Berkeley with a double major in Women’s Studies and Peace and Conflict Studies as well as a Master of Public Administration from USC. Priscilla is the daughter of immigrants from China and the Philippines, and she lives in Los Angeles on Tongva land.
LORI KODAMA
Senior Grants and Operations Director
Lori became the Power Fund Grants and Operations Director in 2022. She has forty years of experience in nonprofit finance and administration in Asian American community organizations. Most recently, she was Chief Operating Officer at Asian Americans/Pacific Islanders in Philanthropy (AAPIP). Prior to that, Lori worked at Asian & Pacific Islander American Health Forum (APIAHF) and Asian Law Caucus (ALC). Lori recently served as Treasurer of the Asian Pacific Institute on Gender Based Violence (APIGBV). Lori enjoys travel, nature, books, and puzzles.
EUNSOOK LEE
Executive Director
EunSook Lee has led the Power Fund since its establishment. Previously, she was the Senior Deputy for former U.S. Rep. Karen Bass and executive director of local and national organizations serving and advocating for Korean American and immigrant communities particularly in the areas of immigration reform, gender-based violence, and expanding democratic participation. She is also the founding president of the National Immigration Forum Action Fund and former member of the City of LA’s Board of Neighborhood Commission and California Commission on Asian and Pacific Islander American Affairs.
EunSook was born in Korea and immigrated to Canada at a young age. She began her career in alternative community radio first as volunteer news programmer at CKUT radio before becoming the News Director and later Station Manager of CKLN radio. Writings of her experiences in grassroots organizing have been published in books such as “The Political Awakening of Korean Americans” in Koreans in a Windy City (2005), “Women Immigrants” in the Encyclopedia of Asian American Issues Today (2010), and a chapter co-written with Hahrie Han titled “Engaging Korean Americans in Civic Activism” in A Companion to Korean American Studies (2019) as well op-eds in outlets such as the New York Times, Ms. Magazine, and the Hill.
JOTY SOHI
Grants Manager
Joty is a first generation Indian American, who was born and raised in New York City. Recognizing social injustices from a very early age, Joty is driven to advance social and economic rights. Joty is joining the Power Fund with over 10 years of experience in grassroots mobilization and international development.
Most recently Joty worked at the Asian Pacific Environmental Network, organizing with immigrants and refugees for a healthy environment and thriving economy for all communities. Prior to that, Joty was at the Open Society Foundation, supporting efforts to strengthen women’s rights organizations and movements, advancing reproductive rights and justice, and promoting economic rights. Joty also had the opportunity to work as a Peace Fellow in Nepalwhere she worked with a local community organization andwas involved in the development and implementation of a major sustainable child educational project. Joty holds a BA in Sociology and Political Science, and an MA in International Politics and Human Rights.
Advisory Board
LUNA YASUI
Chair
Luna has over 25 years of experience in the philanthropic, law and advocacy, and civic engagement sectors. She advises donors and projects that seek to build the leadership and power of women, people of color, young people, immigrants, and LGBTQ people. As a Senior Program Officer at the Ford Foundation, Luna helped launch the foundation’s first LGBT rights program and led grantmaking strategies to deepen the civic engagement of young people, women, immigrants, and people of color. She also developed new initiatives to support state-level social justice infrastructure and multi-year institutional investments in Black-led organizing. While at the Open Society Foundations she oversaw portfolios on gender justice, LGBT rights, and low-wage workers’ rights. Her public interest legal work includes launching the Immigrant Day Labor Program at the National Employment Law Project and serving as a staff attorney at Bay Area Legal Aid. She serves on the boards of the Amalgamated Foundation and re:power.
Luna received her JD from the University of Pennsylvania School of Law where she was a Public Interest Fellow and BA from Brown University. She lives in Brooklyn with her partner, their twins, and Tater, the guinea pig.
CONNIE CAGAMPANG HELLER
Connie Cagampang Heller is a biracial Filipina-American textile artist and co-founder of the Linked Fate Fund for Justice.
In 2004, Connie co-founded the Linked Fate Fund for Justice with her partner to support grassroots organizing, power building and to transform systemic inequity into systemic inclusion and belonging. From 2005 to 2018, Connie played a critical role as a volunteer leader and consultant to design strategic interventions and racial equity learning spaces for organizations such as the Democracy Alliance, Women Donors Network, The California Endowment, Bioneers and the Othering and Belonging Institute.
Since 2016, Connie has focused on using collage art to explore race in America – capturing both what is beautiful and inspiring about people and disturbing about the continually evolving system of marginalization. Her art has been shown at the Northern California Museum of Art, the National Academy of Medicine and the East Bay Community Foundation, and is in the permanent collections of The Charles Houston Hamilton Institute at Harvard Law School, the California Historical Society and Tufts University’s Tisch College for Civic Life. Her art is featured in World Trust film, Cracking the Codes: The System of Racial Inequity and on the cover of the late Dr. Lani Guinier’s The Tyranny of Meritocracy.
She serves on the boards of the AAPI Civic Engagement Fund and the East Bay Community Foundation. Past board service includes Groundswell Fund for Reproductive Justice, Groundswell Action Fund, Women Donors Network, Perception Institute, and the Center for Social Inclusion.
QUANITA TOFFIE
Quanita leads Groundswell Action Fund, a 501(c)(4) public foundation. Since GAF's inception in 2017, Quanita has moved over $13M in c4 general support funding to resource intersectional electoral organizing led by women of color, low-income women and Transgender and Gender Expansive (TGE) people of color. She co-created GAF’s first-ever strategic plan, 2020 – 2025 Blueprint. Prior to this role, she led Groundswell Fund’s 501(c)(3) Integrated Voter Engagement (IVE) program, a capacity-building program that equips Reproductive Justice (RJ) groups with cutting edge voter engagement skills and technology to implement year-round organizing.
Quanita began organizing for social justice alongside her parents in her native South Africa. She joined her parents as they voted, for the first time in their lives, for Nelson Mandela in 1994. Quanita and her family immigrated to Florida in 1997. She found her political home at the Miami Workers Center and was involved in MWC’s first non-partisan civic engagement campaign in 2008. In 2009, she was a founding staff member of New Florida Majority and led the creation of statewide, data-driven electoral campaigns to advance social change in Florida until 2015. She holds a B.A. in Political Theory, Economic Development, and African Studies from Hampshire College.