Executive Director
mquon@apalrc.org
(202) 706- 7150 x10

Myron Dean Quon is the Executive Director of The Asian Pacific American Legal Resource Center.  APALRC is the legal advocate for justice for the Asian American community of the District of Columbia, Maryland, and Northern Virginia. APALRC achieves its work for low-income and limited-English proficient Asian Pacific Islanders through legal services, advocacy, and community organizing.

Prior to joining APALRC, Mr. Quon served as Legal Director of the Asian American Institute in Chicago. Mr. Quon 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. He also coordinated poll watching for limited-English proficient Chinese voters protected by the Voting Rights Act, and he spearheaded data collection and analysis documenting language barriers that prevent Lao American seniors from accessing quality healthcare. Prior to AAI, he served as a consultant at The Chicago Community Trust stewarding grants for legal services organizations. Mr. Quon’s background includes being the Deputy Regional Director of the Western Regional Office of Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund—focusing on civil rights and public policy concerning LGBT people and people with HIV in ten western regional states. He specialized in preventing discrimination against actual or perceived LGBT teachers and students in public schools and gay profiling by law enforcement. Mr. Quon began his legal career in the field of poverty law, providing direct legal services as a staff attorney and then managing attorney for the Legal Aid Foundation of Santa Barbara County.

Mr. Quon has taught at Duke Law School and Northwestern University’s Asian American Studies Program—teaching a self-developed course on LGBT and APA law and policy issues. Mr. Quon received his MBA from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University; his Juris Doctor from Boston University School of Law; and his BA from the University of California at Berkeley. Mr. Quon is admitted to the U.S. Supreme Court Bar, the California State Bar, and the District of Columbia Bar.