Judy Lao has been instrumental to securing talented and accomplished Asian leaders as speakers for the 2016 Convention.  Judy started her involvement with NAAAP as Vice President of Community Alliance for NAAAP San Francisco in 2008. As a transplant to New York from California, she worked as Director of Local Arrangements for the 30th anniversary of NAAAP’s annual convention in 2012 in New York. With a renewed participation in NAAAP, Judy served as the president of the New York chapter from 2012 to 2015.  She rebuilt the New York chapter to become the “go to” Asian American organization, both on the corporate and individual member level. During the day, Judy works for the Chief Legal Office for Blackstone. She is also active in several other New York based non-profits including the New York Junior League.