Yvonne Yu is an anti-discrimination advocate and mediator who has worked across the nonprofit, private and public sectors with a focus on public education and engagement. She spent six years investigating and conciliating state and federal anti-discrimination cases for the Rhode Island Commission for Human Rights, in conjunction with the Federal Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and Department of Housing and Urban Development. Her experience also includes developing DEIA best practices for administering public housing programs, advancing culturally inclusive healthcare campaigns, creating University Title IX policies and designing civil rights trainings for legislative bodies, private corporations, housing providers, nonprofits, professional associations and the general public.
Yvonne received her Master's in Public Administration from the Maxwell School at Syracuse University and her B.A. in Anthropology from Brown University. She has lived in Hong Kong, Taiwan and Singapore, and constantly looks for new ways to expand accessibility and amplify diverse voices in service of the common good.