2020 Community Catalyst Awards Celebrations in commemoration of NQAPIA’s 15th  Anniversary 

Sunu P. Chandy is the Legal Director of the National Women’s Law Center. She oversees the Center’s litigation efforts, providing strategy across the NWLC to create better outcomes for women and girls at school, the workplace, and in healthcare. She helped to create the Center’s Legal Network for Gender Equity and build the policies and procedures guiding the TIME’S UP Legal Defense Fund. In the Spring of 2019 she provided Congressional testimony in support of the Equality Act, a bill that would strengthen and clarify civil rights protections including for LGBTQ individuals.

Until August 2017, Sunu served as the Deputy Director for the Civil Rights Division with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, and before that she was the General Counsel of the DC Office of Human Rights (OHR). Previously, Sunu was an attorney with the U.S. Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) for 15 years and litigated sex, race, national origin, disability, age and religion based discrimination cases. At EEOC, Sunu led several outreach efforts including as a member of the White House Initiative on Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders (WHIAPPI) Regional Working Group. Sunu began her legal career as a law firm associate representing unions and individual workers in New York City. Sunu earned her B.A. in Peace and Global Studies/Women’s Studies from Earlham College in Richmond, Indiana, her law degree from Northeastern University School of Law in Boston and her MFA in Creative Writing (Poetry) from CUNY/Queens College. Sunu currently serves on the board of directors for the Transgender Law Center and also volunteers with Split This Rock, a national social justice poetry organization. Sunu currently resides in Washington, D.C. with her partner, their 10-year-old daughter, and her partner’s 94-year-old grandmother.

Michael Dumlao is an artist and performer who serves as the award-winning Director of Brand for Booz Allen Hamilton where he leads brand research, strategy and activation for this global leader in engineering, cyber, data science and management consulting. A recipient of the 2019 Gartner award for brand transformation, and both the PRSA Silver Anvil and Bronze Anvil awards for brand and digital strategy, he has led digital transformation, marketing and creative development for clients across the federal government , industry, and non-profit community organizations.

He chairs Booz Allen’s LGBTQ Forum “GLOBE+” where he designed the firm’s business resource group strategy, is a faculty member of The Institute for Federal Leadership in Diversity and Inclusion at Georgetown University, and is a national speaker on audacious authenticity in personal branding and advancing workplace diversity. An advocate for arts and social justice, he serves on the Gay Men’s Chorus of Washington Board and is a frequent speaker for Americans For The Arts. Born in the Philippines, raised in Australia and currently residing in Washington, DC with his Peruvian husband, Michael is a staunch believer in the power of representation, diverse storytelling and building community through empathy.

Performer:

ChunJiEum Traditional Korean Percussion Troupe (천지음 풍물패)

Emcee:

Theo Brown

The National Queer Asian Pacific Islander Alliance (NQAPIA) spotlight on leadership presents: Theo Brown, the Public Relations Officer (PRO) for Caribbean Equality Project. Theo is a Jamaican-born resident of the D.C./Maryland/Virginia (DMV) area, an avid HIV/AIDS activist, passionate volunteer and advisor for organizations and programs across the greater metropolitan area, which includes the Caribbean Equality Project. He has been advocating for safer sex practices throughout a diverse population, most recently narrowing his scope to the Caribbean LGBTQ Community’s use of PrEP and PEP.

Theo is responsible for ensuring that the word gets out about ALL that is happening for the Caribbean Equality Project, as well as curating the rich history that the organization writes each year.

Theo’s activism has included reaching out to and interacting with students and the youth populations through innovative ways, such as Project(RED), which aimed to promote testing and becoming knowledgeable of one’s status (for all STDs/STIs). His advocacy work endures through an avid fight to represent a diverse population of people impacted by HIV/AIDS, particularly in the LGBTQ Caribbean Diaspora.

#TheCEP #CaribbeanEqualityProject #Caribbean #QueerCaribbean #CEPTurns5 #5thYearAnniversary #Bisexual #Transgender #Queer #LGBT #LGBTQ+

Ticket Info

Individual tickets are open seating; host committee tables are guaranteed to be seated together

Email Conor with any questions/inquiries at conor@nqapia.org

Individual Tickets - SOLD OUT

Benefactor: Buy a ticket, donate a ticket ($150)

Supporter: Regular price ($100) 

Community: NQAPIA Member groups only ($85)

Limited income ticket: Variable based on ability (fill out form here or email Conor)

Host Committee Tables

Full Table (10 guests, 1/2 pg ad) - SOLD OUT

Half Table (5 guests, 1/4 pg ad) - SOLD OUT

Sponsors

Free tickets, full page ad, name listing, ample seating location, guaranteed
group seating together. Please email for full sponsorship letter.

Platinum: $5,000 

Podium mention 
VIP seating location
Full-page, color ad featured on back cover of program booklet
Name and logo displayed on all promo materials

Gold: $2,500 

Podium mention 
VIP seating location
Full-page, color ad featured on inside cover of program booklet
Name and logo displayed on all promo materials

Silver: $1,500

Podium mention
Prime seating location
Full-page, greyscale ad in program booklet
Name and logo displayed on all promo materials 

Bronze: $750

Podium mention​
Prime seating location
Full-page, greyscale ad in program booklet
Name and logo displayed on all promo materials