Carolyn Wang Kong

President & Executive Director

Carolyn Wang Kong is the President and Executive Director of the Asian Pacific Fund. In this role, Carolyn works closely with community partners and funders to identify and act on the issues that are most pressing to the bay area’s Asian American and Pacific Islander communities.

Previously, Carolyn worked for 20 years to create health equity for communities across California. She served as the Chief Program Director at Blue Shield of California Foundation, a statewide philanthropy with a dual mission of increasing health equity and ending domestic violence. In this role, provided oversight of the Foundation’s strategy, design, and management of the Foundation’s programs and $40 million grantmaking portfolio. Carolyn has also held operational leadership roles at Kaiser Permanente, where she developed a nationally recognized language access program to meet the needs of 350,000 limited English-speaking members in the Northern California region.

Carolyn holds a master’s in public health and public policy from UC Berkeley and a Bachelor of Science from UCLA. In 2021, Carolyn was awarded the prestigious Terrance Keenan Leadership Award in Health Philanthropy from Grantmakers in Health. She is an alumna of the Coro Fellows program in public affairs. She is originally from East San Jose and spends her weekends driving her sons to basketball games around the greater Bay Area.