AALEAD Founder and Executive Director Rosetta Lai spent twenty years in the corporate sector in organizational development with global corporations, such as Motorola, NCS/Pearson and SRA/IBM. Prior to joining the corporate world, Rosetta spent eight years in education, where she was Dean of Women at Lake Forest Academy in Chicago, and Academic Dean at St. Mary’s Academy in South Bend, IN. Throughout her adult life, Rosetta has been active in Asian American non-profit organizations. She served as the President of the Organization of Chinese Americans (OCA), Chicago Chapter in the 1980s and is the current National President of the Organization of Chinese American Women (OCAW). Rosetta received a B.A. in History from St. Mary’s College, Notre Dame, IN and a Masters in Sociology from the University of Notre Dame

Board Chair Hansel Pham is an attorney specializing in international dispute resolution at White & Case LLP. Hansel also serves on the board and as legal counsel for two other nonprofit corporations both of which focus on promoting educational projects. Prior to joining AALEAD, he volunteered as a big brother and after-school mentor to recent Southeast Asian refugees in Dorchester, Massachusetts. Hansel graduated from Harvard College with a B.A. degree in Economics and East Asian Studies and received his J.D. from Harvard Law School.