PPAAAC
THE COMMITTEE
Muhammad Rizwan Mallick - Chairman
Mohammad Rizwan Mallick has been a US citizen since 2001 and has been a self-employed businessman since that time. He has been very active in community relations. Over the years he has served many different posts within the Pakistani-American Society and the Asian Federation. He has been a long serving member of the Police Commissioner Advisory Council and is currently very active within the Asian Community serving through the Philadelphia Police Asian American Advisory Committee.
Vincent Emmanuel Poovan - Vice Chairman
Vincent Emmanuel is US citizen and active in city politics. He was a 48th GOP Ward Leader; TV program producer (Malayalam); journalist; Seven Eleven franchisee; Church Trustee Secretary for Advisory board; Secretary for Tristate Kerala forum; Regional Manager for Asia Net Television; Pennsylvania Attorney General Advisory Board; member of Housing board ; Seven Eleven Board of Trustee.
Randy Duque - Secretary
Randy Duque is the Deputy Director for the Philadelphia Commission on Human Relations (PCHR) in which he oversees the operations of the Community Relations Division. As an expert in conflict resolution and management, Duque has mediated cases in family and neighborhood disputes, workplace issues, intergroup conflicts, and international military affairs. He has designed and conducts trainings locally, nationally, and internationally to a variety of audiences, such as, local law enforcers, international government officials, religious leaders, and community stakeholders in a multitude of conflict subject matters including mediation, conflict resolution, restorative justice, critical incident response and de-escalation; intractable conflict, intercultural communication and conflict; implicit bias and cultural competency; and conflict coaching. He has also guest lectured at various universities and colleges nationally and internationally and was also an adjunct professor for the Psychological Studies in Education Program at Temple University.
Aida Navidad Rivera, MD - Treasurer
Dr. Aida Navidad Rivera is the President and Co-Founder of Philippine Folk Arts Society, Inc., a 501(c)3 corporation to promote, showcase, and educate the general public of the traditions and cultures of the Philippines. She is also the President of the Philippine Medical Society of Greater Philadelphia. Dr. Rivera sits in the Board of Trustees of the National Federation of Filipino American Associations (NaFFAA), and the incumbent National Treasurer. She is deeply involved in various local and national community advocacy and empowerment initiatives.
Marthen Landena
Marthen Landena graduated from University of Widya Mandala, Indonesia in Education. He has been very active in helping Indonesian Community in Philadelphia. He assists and trains his community in several needed skills such as film making, video editing, multimedia, and graphic design.
He also very active to helps his community who become victims of crime and serves as interpreter as well. In addition he serves as the Advisory board of My Home Philadelphia.
In 2007 he started and became editor of Spirit Bulletin, a weekly Indonesian Bulletin in Philadelphia.
Since 2017 until present he becomes the leadership team of Philadelphia Regional Diaspora Network who works together and facilitates many immigrant churches in Philadelphia.
He currently serves as the Chairman of North America Indonesian Pastors Connection. He also serves as the Chairman of Indonesian Pastors Network in Philadelphia which oversees 14 Indonesian churches in Philadelphia and the senior Pastor of International Christian Center (Indonesian Christian Church) in Philadelphia.
Daniel P. Thomas
Daniel P. Thomas Immigrated to USA 36 years ago and became a US citizen , He has served the Indian Community as President of Malayalee Association of Greater Philadelphia(MAP), and served as Vice President at Ascension Mar Thoma Church, Philadelphia, PA. Thomas also stays active in his community and was involved in several charities. He is a businessman. He and his wife, Rachel, have two children.
Loi Ma
Loi Ma was raised in Vietnam and immigrated to the U.S. in 1993. He is fluent in Vietnamese. He received an undergraduate degree at Rowan University in 2000. Recently, he serves as an original member of the Philadelphia Police Asian American Advisory Board (PPAAAC). Professionally since 2007, he has been working for the Office of District Attorney as a South East Asian Victim/Witness coordinator. He provides assistance to Vietnamese victim specifically as well as victim of crime as a whole to fulfill their rights under the Victim of Crime Bill. He provides the case information to the victim and acts as liaison between the victim and the criminal justice system. Before working at the Office of the District Attorney, He has served a court interpreter in Vietnamese. Director of The Vietnamese United Nation Association of Greater Philadelphia (V.U.N.A). On community’s perspective, he also serves as a board member of the Vietnamese Heritage Flag Organization to honor the Yellow Flag with Three Red Stripes at the Philadelphia City Hall’s Rostrum annually. The event commemorates the sacrifices of Allies’ soldiers, the Viet Nam Republic; motherland of the Vietnamese Oversea during the Vietnam War. By preserving, promoting the symbolic of the Vietnamese ideal in freedom, human rights and democracy for VIETNAM.
Manoj Jose
Manoj Jose immigrated to the United States in 2000. Since then, he has been a dedicated worker in the medical field. Over the years, he has participated in and continues to participate in various charitable organizations based in India. He and his family, consisting of his wife, three children, and mother, have resided in Pennsylvania for 20 years.
Ruben De Guzman David
Ruben De Guzman David was born on August 13, 1954 in the City of Marikina, Metro-Manila, Philippines. He is the seventh child of eight born to Arcadio and Matilde David. In order to get a college education, he worked during the day and attended evening and summer classes.
In 1976, he graduated from the University of the East in Manila with a five-year program Bachelor of Science degree in Civil Engineering and then immigrated to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He is a professional engineer registered in Pennsylvania. He continues to attend continuing education and professional development courses.
He worked for the City of Philadelphia for 36 years and retired as a Project Director for Public Safety Capital Program on August 2013 in the Department of Public Property. In addition to his career as a civil engineer, he actively volunteers in professional, civic, religious, and community groups, through which he aims to increase awareness of Asian and Asian-American affairs and to help further causes for the Filipino-American community.
He is a commissioner and secretary of Mayor’s Commission on Asian American Affairs under the administration of Philadelphia Mayor James F. Kenney.
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Susan Noh
Susan Noh, originally from Seoul, Republic of Korea (South Korea), and immigrated to the U.S. during high school. She discovered her passion for Real Estate investing during her time as a Biomedical Engineering student at Temple University. Since 2014, she has been engaging in property investments and development projects in Philadelphia and New Jersey, alongside her husband Andre - who is also an immigrant from Colombia.
In addition to her Real Estate endeavors, Susan is honored to hold esteemed positions within several prominent organizations. Currently serving as the President of the Korean-American Chamber of Commerce for Greater Philadelphia, as well as holding board memberships at the Asian Chamber of Commerce for Greater Philadelphia and the Korean American Association of Greater Philadelphia, Susan humbly leverages her expertise to advocate for and empower the business community she deeply cares about.
Susan attributes her achievements to the support and guidance of her multicultural background and diverse experiences. With deep humility, she continues to make a positive impact in the Philadelphia business landscape, fostering growth and collaboration through her work in Real Estate and her unwavering dedication to the success of others.
Tim T. Tran
Tim Tran immigrated to the united state in 1982. He studies at Mission College in San Jose in 1983 - 1985, where he completing his associate's degree. After graduation, he found work with Motorola from 1985 - 1992. Shortly after leaving Motorola, he founded Cell phone 2000, LLC.
His family consists of his wife and three children.
Tram Nguyen
Tram Nguyen is a Vietnamese refugee who settled in Pennsylvania in 1983 with her parents and older sister. Tram attended Widener University for BS in nursing and after junior year decided to change her studies to Temple University for Social Worker. Tram has been working since 2006 as Victim Advocate/Asian Outreach Project-Community Organizer for Victim Witness Services of South Philadelphia. Since then Tram has worked with immigrant/refugees and other communities in South Philadelphia and continues to strengthening ties, working collaboratively, with diverse communities in the city of Philadelphia.
In 2009, Tram received the Catherine Bachrach Victim Advocate Award for exemplary and support to Victim and Witnesses of Crime. She was one of the lead advocates in organizing the South Philadelphia High School students in 8 days boycott in 2009 against anti- Asian/anti immigrant harassment. Tram, together with other advocates provide a workshop presentations on Response to Bias Violence in Schools for the 37th NOVA conference in 2011. In her free time, she likes to spend time with her 12 yrs old son.
Tsiwen M. Law, Esq.
Currently, Mr. Law is a civil trial lawyer with his law firm, Law & Associates, L.L.C. He served two years as chairman of the Pennsylvania Bar Assn (PBA) Civil and Equal Rights Committee and one year as co-chair of the 2008 Mid-year Meeting. He has been co-chair and chair of NAPABA’s Civil Rights Committee for thirteen years. He has lobbied the Pa General Assembly and Congress on behalf of the PBA and NAPABA. He is a past chairman of the Minority Bar Committee, past vice chair of the PBA’s Long Range Planning Committee, past at-large governor of the PBA Board, past member of the PBA House Credentials Committee, past House delegate for Zone One, past member of the PBA Task Force on Diversity, and a member of the Task Force on Needs of Middle Income Persons. He is the author of numerous resolutions which have been successfully approved by the House of Delegates, including the PA Court Interpreters Act which became law in November 2006. He chaired Mayor Wilson Goode’s Commission on Asian American Affairs for three years. In 2009, Mayor Michael Nutter appointed him to the reconstituted Commission on Asian American Affairs. Mr. Law is a graduate of the University of California Berkeley, the University of Michigan School of Public Health, and the University of Pennsylvania Law School.
Before being admitted to the bar, he worked as an industrial hygienist for the Philadelphia Health Department and as a health scientist for the Occupational Safety and Health Administration in the U.S. Department of Labor. For two years, he served on the Environmental Justice Working Group of the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection to design guidelines which would protect minority communities in the Commonwealth from environmental contamination. He has testified before Congress on census issues, before the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights on special education needs of APA students, before the Pennsylvania State Senate on court interpreters, before the Pa State Assembly opposing English-Only bills, before the Philadelphia City Council on the need for a police oversight board and before the Philadelphia Human Relations Commission on hate crimes against the Hmong Community. He is the recipient of the NAPABA Presidential Award 2009, the Pennsylvania Bar Assn 2009 Community Builders Award, the Philadelphia Bar Assn 2008 Wachovia Fidelity Award, NAPABA’s 2001 Trailblazer Award, the 1994 AABADV Conscience of the Bar Award, and the Asian American Educator’s 1991 Community Service Award. He is the author of “ An Asian American Looks at the Bill of Rights,” published in the Bill of Rights, A Bicentennial View, Stivison, David, Gateway Press, Inc., Baltimore, MD, 1991