Latino Victory Project announced the addition of Glen S. Fukushima to our National Committee. Our National Committee is made up of founding partners who help map the course for Latino Victory Project. The members of our National Committee help identify new Latino leaders and candidates running for office and inform on policy developments that affect the Latino community throughout the country.
“We are honored to have Glen S. Fukushima as part of our National Committee,” said Cristóbal J. Alex, president of Latino Victory Project. “Glen is one of the top public policy and business experts on U.S.-Asia relations and a recognized leader in the Asian American Pacific Islander (AAPI) community in the United States.
“The AAPI and Latino communities in the United States have fought similar battles for recognition, equality and representation,” said Alex. “Latino Victory Project wants to work in conjunction with the AAPI community to tackle some of the joint issues that our families encounter. Glen’s contributions to Latino Victory Project are invaluable to those efforts, and to our mission and vision of increasing diverse representation in government.”
“We can realize our country’s brightest future when Latinos, AAPIs, and other communities of color work together on common goals,” said Fukushima. “We must continue to pursue opportunities to achieve our shared interests, but also stand with one another against those who seek to divide us. I’m honored and thrilled to be part of Latino Victory Project’s National Committee in support of advancing both of our communities.”
Fukushima is a Senior Fellow at the Center for American Progress, a prominent public policy think tank headquartered in Washington, D.C. He previously served as Director for Japanese Affairs (1985-1988) and Deputy Assistant United States Trade Representative for Japan and China (1988-1990) at the Office of the United States Trade Representative (USTR), Executive Office of the President. In 1993, he was offered the position of U.S. Assistant Secretary of Commerce for International Economic Policy.
He also previously served for eight years in the White House-appointed positions of Vice Chairman of the Japan-United States Friendship Commission and Vice Chairman of the U.S. panel of CULCON (Joint Committee on United States-Japan Cultural and Educational Interchange). He was Chairman of the Mori Art Museum Best Friends and is a member of the Director’s Circle of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.
Fukushima is also co-founder and chair of CAPA21, a San Francisco-based AAPI political action committee that invests in progressive candidates, AAPI field operations, and projects to improve AAPI participation in the political process.
From 1990 to 2012, Fukushima was a senior executive with one European and four American multinational corporations based in Tokyo: Vice President, AT&T Japan Ltd.; President, Arthur D. Little Japan; President & CEO, Cadence Design Systems Japan; President & CEO, NCR Japan; and President & CEO, Airbus Japan.
Fukushima served two terms as President of the American Chamber of Commerce in Japan, 1998-1999, and Vice President, 1993-1997. He has served on numerous corporate boards and government advisory councils in the United States, Europe, and Japan and on the Board of the Japan Association of Corporate Executives, America-Japan Society, Japan Center for International Exchange, Japan Society of Boston, Japan Society of Northern California, Japanese American National Museum, U.S.-Japan Council, and Global Council of the Asia Society.
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