Board & Staff
Board of Trustees
Thomas C. Ahn
Vice President, Real Estate Division, The Mount Sinai Medical Center
Anla Cheng
Chief Executive Officer & Partner, Centenium Capital Partners, L.L.C.
David Glassman
Executive Director, Cushman & Wakefield
David Henry Hwang
Playwright
Lois Jackson, D.D.S.
Pediatric Dentist
June Jee, Secretary
Director of External Affairs, Verizon
Clarence Kwan
National Managing Partner, Chinese Services Group, Deloitte LLP
Jonathan K. Ligh, M.D., Chair
Vitreoretinal Surgeon
Maya Lin
Artist and Designer, Maya Lin Studio
Jenny Ming
Operating Partner, Advent International
Rachel Sha, Treasurer
President, Optima Partners, Inc.
Robert Shum
Chief Executive Officer, Cypress Group of Companies
MOCA Staff
Carolyn Cervantes Antonio, Vice-President, Development
Carolyn received her BA in Comparative Literature from Hamilton College, and has worked in the publishing and nonprofit fields for over 10 years, including working at such places as Kitchen Table: Women of Color Press, Pearson Education, and Vantage Fundraising Consulting Group. She has also been a freelance grant writer/researcher for New York/New Jersey nonprofits including, the Asian American Federation of New York, the Kirkland Project for the Study of Gender, Society, and Culture, and GABRIELA Network. She is a founding Board Member of BABAE (Bridging Assistance Building Advocacy & Empowerment), an organization serving Filipina victims and survivors of violence. On staff at MOCA since 2005, she is responsible for managing MOCA’s fundraising efforts and helping to implement MOCA’s institutional development plans.
Beatrice Chen, Director of Education
Beatrice joined the MOCA Staff in September 2003. She received a BA from Yale University, an Ed.M from Harvard Graduate School of Education and a MCP from the Department of Urban Studies and Planning at MIT. Pior to graduate school, she worked in the education department at the Peabody Essex Museum in Massachusetts. She is fluent in Mandarin. Her responsibilities include coordinating educational programs, overseeing volunteer/docent programs and developing interpretive materials for exhibitions.
Sam Quan Krueger, Chief Operating Officer
Sam joined MOCA in 2006 as its Chief Operating Officer. He oversees MOCA’s daily operations, including museum programs, services and facilities, IT and financial systems, and general administration. Sam comes with over a decade's worth of experience in both the private and non-profit sectors. He has served as Manager of Organizational Support Services at the United Way of NYC and as Strategic Planner for clients such as E*TRADE, LVMH and Chase Cardholder Services. He has managed community-based partnerships with The Whitney Museum of American Art and National Book Foundation and was appointed in 2007 to Manhattan’s Community Board 3. In 1998, Sam was awarded a National Service Fellowship with the U.S. Corporation for National & Community Service. Sam received a BA in Art History from the State University of New York at Stony Brook; BA in Economics from Columbia University and an MPA from the City University of New York, Baruch College.
Charles Lai, Executive Director
Charlie is the Co-Founder and former Member of the Board of Trustees of the Museum of Chinese in America (formerly the New York Chinatown History Project). He has a distinguished record of public service, most recently serving as Director of Programs and Planning at the Asian American Federation of New York. Prior to that, Charlie has served as the Executive Director of the Chinatown Manpower Project and the Director of Policy and Budget for Manhattan Borough President Ruth W. Messinger. Charlie received a BA from Princeton University and an MPA from the Columbia University School of International and Public Affairs where he was a Charles E. Revson Fellow. He is fluent in Cantonese. His return to MOCA in 2003 marked a new exciting stage in MOCA’s journey to becoming a national museum.
Cynthia Lee, Vice-President of Exhibits, Programs and Collections
Cynthia received her BA from Vassar College and MA & M.Phil, Columbia University. She has eight years of professional experience in publishing, exhibit development, graphic design, and international refugee services. Her responsibilities include overseeing the work of the program, archive & education staff. Hired in 1998 she plans and implements exhibit, publication and technology projects and helps establish and maintain collaborative partnerships with other museums and cultural institutions. She is currently a panelist for the NYS Council on the Arts. She speaks Cantonese and Mandarin.
Yue Ma, Collections Manager
Yue began her appointment as MOCA’s Collections Manager in September 2006. Yue oversees the daily operations of MOCA’s archives and collections and oversees collection-related activities around the Museum’s capital expansion project. Educated globally, Yue first received her B.Sc. and MBA from China’s Jilin University and Xiamen University, respectively. In 2006, she became part of only the first graduating class of a new, joint program at Ryerson University in Canada and George Eastman House in the United States. Through the program, she received a MA in Photographic Preservation and Collections Management. Prior to MOCA, Yue has interned at the City of Toronto Archives and served for nine years as an Assistant Research Archivist at the Shenzhen City Archives. Yue is fluent in Mandarin.
Daria Ng, Assistant Curator of Education
Daria received her BS from New York University's Steinhardt School of Education and is working towards an MA at Columbia University's Teachers College. During her undergraduate career, she student taught in various public schools and was a teaching partner for international graduate students. She has taught and volunteered in Peru, China, and India. Daria interned at MOCA, conducting research on NYC's Chino Latino population. She has been an educator at MOCA since 2003 and began full-time in November 2007. Her responsibilities include developing educational programs and materials, training docents, coordinating volunteer/intern programs, and collaborating with area teachers. She is fluent in Cantonese and Spanish.
Doreen Wang, Exhibitions Associate
Doreen graduated from Brown University in 2006 with an AB in Ethnic Studies where she focused on the Chinese diaspora. During her undergraduate career, she traveled to Peru to research the Chinese and Afro-Peruvian communities; served as an archivist for Brown's Third World Center and taught poetry and creative writing to elementary school children in the Providence area. At MOCA, Doreen has interned and worked with the Education Department and she currently assists the Vice-President of Exhibits, Programs and Collections with developing exhibition content and materials. She is fluent in Mandarin and Spanish.
Ting-Chi Wang, Curatorial Assistant
Ting-Chi obtained her BA in English in 2004 from National Central University, Taiwan, and an MA in Museum Studies in 2007 from New York University. She first worked with MOCA in 2007 as an exhibition content manager based at Matter Architecture Practice, a Brooklyn architecture firm. She then took off and departed for Beijing where she extended her career into art journalism and publishing. In Spring 2008, she rejoined the Museum as a curatorial assistant. Her duties include exhibition materials management, research, exhibition content development, and implementation. Prior to her first appointment with MOCA, Ting-Chi has interned and worked in different sectors at various organizations, including the Registrar Office of New York Public Library, Asian Art Program of Guggenheim Museum, and Asian Art Department of Brooklyn Museum. She is fluent in Mandarin and has intermediate level of Spanish.
Jenny Wong, Development Manager
Jenny Wong joined the MOCA staff in March 2008. Her responsibilities include implementing action plans for MOCAs capital campaign, overseeing individual major gifts, and planning cultivation events. Prior to her current position, she was the Development Associate of Major Gifts at The Rockefeller University. Jenny also has experience working for Isaacson, Miller, the American Museum of Natural History, Civic Exchange (a public policy think tank based in Hong Kong), and the New York Aquarium. A native New Yorker, Jenny received her B.A. in International Relations from Wellesley College. She is fluent in Cantonese.
