Board of Directors & Advisory Board

Jaynry Mak

President

Jaynry Mak leads our board, and she has spent her career close to the communities she serves. She is also board chair of the Community Youth Center of San Francisco, whose programs reach more than 8,000 young people a year. A licensed attorney through The State Bar of California, she is General Counsel for the Chinatown Merchants United Association, representing over 250 small businesses, and Legal Consultant for the Chinese Consolidated Women’s Association. Jaynry has worked as a liaison to the Chinese American community for the late Congressman Tom Lantos and as Chief Legislative Deputy to then San Francisco Supervisor Fiona Ma. She has also led the San Francisco Women’s Political Committee and the Outer Sunset Merchants and Professionals Association.

Jaynry has received numerous awards and recognitions, including the City and County of San Francisco’s 2024 Women’s History Month Award, the Chinese Consolidated Women’s Association’s 2023 Outstanding Overseas Chinese Award, and American Legion Cathay Post #384’s Community Hero Award. She brings that same care to Chinatown, where the garage helps fund the neighborhood that built it.

Rose Chung

Vice President

Rose Chung grew up in San Francisco Chinatown, the youngest of five girls raised by her widowed mother. She was crowned Miss Chinatown in 1981, and she has given back to the neighborhood ever since. She has chaired the board of APA Family Support Services, co-founded the women’s empowerment program Imagine Talks, and served as president of the Jung Family Association. She founded the Miss Asian Global Pageant in 1985, and she recently retired after a long career as a radiologic technologist at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital. These days she can often be found roaming Chinatown with her camera, capturing the neighborhood’s colorful goings-on to share on Facebook and to support its businesses. Chinatown raised her, and she has spent her life returning the favor.

Fanny Lam

Treasurer

Fanny Lam was born and raised in Hong Kong and made the San Francisco Bay Area her home more than a decade ago. She is executive director of APA Family Support Services, which brings culturally grounded help to families across the Bay Area, and she has spent eighteen years helping community nonprofits grow on steady financial footing. She also serves on the board of Pacific Environment. She holds a business degree from the Chinese University of Hong Kong and a law degree from the University of London, speaks Cantonese, Mandarin, and English, and keeps her ties to home alive through music and Cantonese cooking.

Diana Chu

Secretary

Diana Chu is an executive coach and therapist who helps people grow into their fullest selves. She coaches founders and senior leaders through Refactor EQ, the firm she co-founded, and sees clients through her therapy practice. Born and raised in Hong Kong before she settled in San Francisco, she understands the Asian American experience from the inside, and she puts that understanding to work for Chinatown’s families. She facilitates Interpersonal Dynamics at the Stanford Graduate School of Business, where she helps MBA students build self-awareness and stronger relationships, and she offers mental health consultations to local nonprofits. She serves on the board of the Telegraph Hill Neighborhood Center and on the Lotus Project’s professional advisory board, which brings trauma-informed care to Asian American and immigrant communities.

Betty Louie

Board Member

Betty Louie was born and raised in San Francisco, and she has been the driving force behind the revival of Chinatown’s business district. Working on her own and with a neighborhood think tank she founded in 2011, which brings together local business leaders, restaurateurs, nonprofit representatives, and the Chinatown Merchants Association, she helped bring Grant Avenue back to life with greenery, public sculptures, lanterns, and commissioned murals. She has put her own buildings to work for the neighborhood too. She encouraged Brandon Jew, a rising chef who also grew up in Chinatown, to open Mister Jiu’s in the old Four Seas space, and it has since earned a Michelin star. In the same building she offered space to Tiffany Tam, whose hand-painted silk kimono shop Kim and Ono now has an international following, and she has gone on to bring more new businesses to Chinatown, including Jessica Silverman’s art gallery.

A graduate of UC Berkeley and Harvard Business School’s Owner/President Management Program, Betty learned business and real estate alongside her parents, May and Sinclair Louie, who grew Sinclair’s father’s small general store into a thriving chain of shops along Grant Avenue. Her parents were among the citizens who got Portsmouth Square Garage built in 1962, and the family has supported Chinatown organizations generously ever since. Betty carries that spirit forward, and she believes that when you are lucky, you give back. Away from Chinatown, she is a member of the San Francisco Tennis Club and a decades-long supporter of Alonzo King’s Lines Ballet, and she has served on many nonprofit boards over the years.

Tony Lau

Board Member

Tony Lau is a licensed civil engineer, a board member of the San Francisco Chinese Chamber of Commerce, Director of the San Francisco Chinese New Year Parade, and a council member of SF Hep B Free. A Chinatown native, Tony has spent decades helping produce the parade and its elaborate floats, promoting Chinese American culture, supporting Chinatown businesses, and creating community-focused Lunar New Year programs. He has also coordinated the Chamber’s public art projects and other cultural initiatives, part of a long commitment to preserving San Francisco’s Chinese heritage and giving back to the community. When he is not working, you will find him cooking and tracking down good food around the city with his family.

Steven Lee

Board Member

Steven Lee came from Vacaville to study broadcast communications at San Francisco State University, and he built a career in the city’s hospitality world. He opened the Glas Kat nightclub and ran it for twelve years, and it was later reborn as The Grand. In 2012 the San Francisco Board of Supervisors appointed him to the Entertainment Commission, the first Asian American nightclub owner to serve on it, and from 2022 to 2026 he served on the Port Commission, appointed by Mayor London Breed. In 2021, to bring visitors back to Chinatown after the pandemic, Steven and his investors opened Lion’s Den on Wentworth Place, the only live music club in Chinatown in decades, in a room that once hosted Bob Hope and John Wayne. Closest to home for us, Steven led the investment group that brought back Sam Wo, the century-old Chinatown restaurant, after its building forced it to close in 2012. Both small businesses validate parking at the garage. He also founded the Chinese Railroad Workers Memorial Monument Project, honoring the thousands of Chinese laborers who built the Transcontinental Railroad; the twelve-foot statue is on display at the California State Railroad Museum. He brings small business operating experience and a working knowledge of City Hall to our board, along with the approach that has always guided his work: bringing people together to solve problems.

Alice Lam

Advisory Board

Alice Lam has called San Francisco home for a lifetime and has worked in real estate for thirty-six years, building a reputation on referrals from clients who come back to her again and again. She led the Chinese Real Estate Association of America as president in 2003 and board chair in 2004, still serves on its past presidents council, and is a life member of the San Francisco Chinatown Lions Club. She is fluent in English, Cantonese, and Mandarin, and she offers the board a close read on the neighborhood’s property and its people.

Richard Wong

Advisory Board

Richard Wong is a certified public accountant who has run his own San Francisco firm since 1979. He came to the United States from Hong Kong at twelve, helped in his family’s restaurant as a teenager in Salt Lake City, and earned an accounting degree from the University of Utah and an MBA in finance from UC Berkeley. He has served on the board of GBC International Bank since 2004 and belongs to the AICPA and the California CPA society. He gives his time to many Chinatown nonprofits, and he brings a careful, numbers-first steadiness to the garage.