Alice Y. Hom

Alice Y. Hom (she/they) is a community builder invested in bridging diverse and overlapping communities for social change. She most recently served as  the Director of Equity and Social Justice at Northern California Grantmakers, where she focused on operationalizing racial equity with an intersectional lens that brought multiple issues, communities, and sectors together to build on the common good. Before joining NCG, they held an OSF Soros Equality Fellowship in a program aimed to support leaders to become long term innovators for racial justice. Alice held various positions at Asian Americans/Pacific Islanders in Philanthropy, including the Philanthropic Advocacy Manager for the National Gender and Equity Campaign and the Queer Justice Fund Director where she focused on leadership development and capacity building for AAPI community organizations.

Alice serves on the board of the American LGBTQ+ Museum and on the Advisory Council for the Conscious Style Guide, a resource on inclusive, respectful and empowering language on ability/disability, age, ethnicity, gender, race, sexuality, and socioeconomic status. She is a co-founder of Beyond Two Cents: LGBTQ AAPI Giving Circle. Her previous board service includes: Borealis Philanthropy, California Humanities, Los Angeles City Commission on the Status of Women, Astraea Lesbian Foundation for Justice, Visual Communications, Great Leap, and APAIT Health Center.

Alice holds a Ph.D. in History from Claremont Graduate University, a M.A. in Asian American Studies from UCLA, and B.A. from Yale University. They are a co-editor of two anthologies, Q & A: Voices from Queer Asian North America and Q & A: Queer in Asian America and have published articles in various journals and anthologies.