Myron Dean Quon is the Executive Director of NAPAFASA. NAPAFASA is the country’s national nonprofit that prevents substance use disorders in Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander communities through research, advocacy, education, and capacity building. Mr. Quon manages its programs including national and local advocacy for language access and cultural competency, gambling addiction trainings, and workshops concerning alcohol, tobacco, and other drugs.
Before NAPAFASA, Mr. Quon was the Executive Director of The Asian Pacific American Legal Resource Center, where he supervised a team of attorneys and community organizers focused on empowering low-income Asian immigrants of DC, Maryland, and Northern Virginia. Prior to APALRC, Mr. Quon was the inaugural Legal Director of Advancing Justice-Chicago, where he successfully led advocacy efforts to repair the presumptive exclusion of Asian American-owned business enterprises from the City of Chicago’s public contracting affirmative action program.