FREMONT: The Ro for Congress campaign has announced that Andy Wong has joined the team as the deputy campaign manager and head of constituency outreach. Andy will bring extensive experience working in Democratic politics, including President Obama’s reelection campaign, and within the Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) and lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) communities.
“Andy is a uniquely experienced and dedicated champion of causes important to our diverse communities here in California,” said Ro Khanna. “Andy has a deep knowledge of policy, constituency outreach, and community organizing. He is going to play an integral role in spreading my positive vision of creating good paying middle-class jobs, improving public education, and bringing common-sense Silicon Valley thinking to Washington.”
Most recently, Andy served on President Obama’s reelection campaign where he coordinated AAPI outreach, later shifting to directing strategic initiatives for Educators, Nurses, and Small Business Owners for Obama. Finally, Andy assumed the position of Western Regional Operation Vote Director in charge of constituency organizing and outreach in 13 states.
Prior to joining the President’s campaign, Andy was a leading advocate for marriage equality for same-sex couples in California. As the founder and director of API Equality, Andy spearheaded coalition building, community organizing, and earned media efforts to promote support for the issue among the state’s AAPI communities.
He has also worked for Community United Against Violence, an LGBT anti-violence organization in San Francisco, and Congresswoman Judy Chu, the first Chinese American woman ever elected to Congress. Andy’s first campaign was organizing for Hillary Clinton’s senate run in 2000.
With Silicon Valley’s distinct status as a world leader in technology and innovation, Ro is running for Congress to ensure the district has a representative who understands the challenges of competing in a global economy.
Ro will use his experience as a manufacturing expert and a longtime technology attorney at one of the area’s most prominent firms to promote policies that increase the nation’s exports; incentivize firms to hire workers here at home; and boost advanced manufacturing to advocate for the type of common-sense policies that will grow the economy and create new jobs.
A longtime Bay Area resident, Ro returned to Fremont after serving as Deputy Assistant Secretary at the U.S. Department of Commerce in the Obama Administration. He is currently a Silicon Valley technology lawyer, professor of economics at Stanford University, and professor of law at Santa Clara University.
Ro’s book on manufacturing, Entrepreneurial Nation: Why Manufacturing is Still Key to America’s Future, has won widespread praise for its strategies for keeping the best companies, jobs and opportunities in America.
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