Candace Inagi, vice president of Asian Pacific Americans for Civic Engagement and Senior Adviser for External Affairs for the Mayor’s office, is co-chairing Attorney General-elect Bob Ferguson’s subcommittee focused on increasing diversity in the AG office and better serving under-served and vulnerable communities. The committee hosted its first meeting on Friday, Dec. 17, with co-chair Jorge Baron, Ferguson, Chief Deputy AG Brian Moran, Deputy AG Tina Kondo, and representatives of all the minority bar organizations, including Jeff Liang of the Asian Bar Association; Sinjin Dinh of the Vietnamese Bar Association; David Ko of the Korean Bar Association; and Mimi Castillo, Jeri Gonzalez, and Rommel de las Alas of the Flipino Lawyers Association.
Inagi co-chairs the subcommittee while serving on Ferguson’s full transition committee, which is made up of 29 members, including Sumeer Singla of the Seattle City Attorney’s Office. (end)