Cecilia Chung, Senior Director of Strategic Projects and Evaluations at Transgender Law Center, migrated from Hong Kong to San Francisco since December 1984. She has worked locally and internationally to advance equality and sexual and reproductive health and rights. Cecilia is the first transgender woman and first person living openly with HIV to Chair the San Francisco Human Rights Commission and is also the architect of the nation’s most ambitious publicly funded program addressing economic justice within the transgender community. Her community service spans nearly two decades.
Cecilia currently serves on the Health Commission where she made San Francisco the first city in the U.S. to cover gender affirming surgery for the city’s uninsured transgender patients. In 2015, Cecilia launched Positively Trans, a national network of transgender people living with HIV that is led by an advisory board of transgender people of color living with HIV that focus on storytelling, policy advocacy and leadership development.
Cecilia’s life story is highlighted in ABD’s docudrama, “When We Rise”.
