Miriam Yeung

For the Hong Kong actress and singer, see Miriam Yeung. Miriam W. Yeung is the former executive director of the National Asian Pacific American Women's Forum, former Director of Public Policy and Government Relations at the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Community Center in New York City, affiliate of the Social Transformation Project, and co-founder/co-chair/delegate for the We Belong Together Campaign. In 2017, she served as Smith College's Activist-in-Residence. She has served on the boards of Queers for Economic Justice and Generations Ahead, acted as a spokesperson for the National Coalition for Immigrant Women’s Rights, and has written for Open Society Foundations, Huffington Post, Washington Post, and scholarly journals, including Barnard Center for Research on Women's Scholar & Feminist Online and UC Berkeley's California Journal of Politics and Policy. Early life Yeung was born in Hong Kong and came to the United States with her parents in 1977. (C-SPAN, 1:45 ) She was raised in Brooklyn, New York. She came out as a lesbian in 1991, when she was in high school. At the height of the ACT UP movement, she started advocating for queer sexual health. She also took action around environmental justice, working with Amnesty International and the Red Cross. Education Yeung earned a Bachelor’s degree at New York University. During her tenure, she became involved in reproductive justice, conducting HIV/ AIDS prevention education and advocacy. Yeung went on to earn her Master's in Public Administration at Baruch College.