Jacinta Wong is the new executive director of the San Diego Chinese Historical Museum. She comes to the position from her hometown of Chicago, where she has decades of experience working in nonprofits and government agencies, and was active in her local Chinese community there.
From the time Jacinta Wong was a young girl, growing up on the south side of Chicago, she was working in her community. Her mother was a social worker who would go on to co-found the Chinese American Service League in 1978; it became one of the largest social service nonprofits for Asian Americans in the Midwest, and it was where young Jacinta spent lots of time helping her mother with fundraising, tutoring, learning about her culture, and anything else that was needed.
Today, not much has changed as she’s gone from a career in service to her hometown, to a new chapter as executive director of the San Diego Chinese Historical Museum. “I was intrigued by the story of the museum and the San Diego Asian Pacific Historic District. Coming from a city with one of the largest Chinatowns in the U.S., I had a lot of ideas about how to promote the museum and encourage people to come learn about this wonderful piece of San Diego and Chinese history,” she says.
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