Leadership
Staff
Amos Lim, Community Organizer
Amos Lim immigrated to the United States from Singapore eight years ago to be with his American partner, Mickey. Since then, Amos has been actively involved in raising awareness about the immigration struggles facing same-sex, bi-national couples. He co-founded Out4Immigration, a non-profit that works actively in the United States to educate the public about the issues of immigration inequality. In addition, Amos volunteered his time to work with the City and County of San Francisco in managing the 2007 Immigrant Rights Summit where LGBT immigration issues were raised for the first time at the city-sponsored event. He has also volunteered his time working at Speaker Nancy Pelosi's Citizenship Workshop.
Beyond his efforts to advance immigration equality, Amos has an extensive professional background in the corporate sector, having worked in business development and human resources at Meditab Software, Elmhurst Pharmacy, and Deutsche Bank AG. He is a Lieutenant in the Singapore Army and fluent in several Chinese dialects, including Mandarin, Hokkien, Teochew, and Cantonese.
Amos and his partner are looking forward to adopting a kid into their family this year.
Tawal Panyacosit Jr., Director
Tawal Panyacosit Jr. is a founding member of API Equality and local partner, API Equality – LA, where he has helped to build a broad-based coalition of over 75 local, state, and national API organizations in support of marriage equality, garner extensive media coverage of the issue in the API and English language press, and equip numerous API individuals and organizations with the tools to be effective advocates for LGBT people. In addition, Tawal regularly confers with national and statewide leaders in the LGBT movement. He currently serves on the Board of Equality for All, a campaign to defeat any proposed ballot measures to ban partnerships rights for same-sex couples in California's constitution.
Prior to joining API Equality, Tawal was the Senior Field Organizer for the L.A. Gay & Lesbian Center’s Vote for Equality Project where he helped to recruit and train thousands of volunteers to build a list of over 40,000 marriage equality supporters. A strong advocate for civil rights, he has also worked actively with the National Gay & Lesbian Task Force as an organizer in campaigns to defeat discriminatory ballot measures across the country, including the No on Proposition 54 Campaign in California and the No on Constitutional Amendment 36 in Oregon, as well as a guest trainer in their National LGBT Power Summits.
Tawal holds a Masters of Public Administration from Columbia University and a B.A. in Education from Brown University.