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U.S. EQUAL EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY
COMMISSION

I am Mark Wong and I served with the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity
Commission (EEOC). At the EEOC, I served as a Special Assistant to the

Chair and Vice Chair of the Commission. These offices have primary
leadership responsibility for advancing the implementation and enforcement
of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Americans with Disabilities

Act, the Age Discrimination in Employment Act and the Equal Pay Act. The
agency also provides guidance to federal departments and agencies on equal
employment opportunity matters. As a member of a small team, I participated
in a number of executive management functions, which included: setting

policy direction; developing strategic planning, evaluation, and enforcement
goals; formulating fiscal year budget priorities; and, establishing close
reporting relationships with oversight committees in the Congress.

Also, as part of my work, the agency has been recognized as an innovative
leader on the development and implementation of major outreach, education

and technical assistance initiatives. This was accomplished by networking
with and partnering with a diverse cross-section of national and local
nonprofit advocacy, business, legal, government and community-based groups
and associations across the country. Through these efforts, best equal

employment policies and practices were studied, collected and widely shared
with private sector companies and associations, as well as nonprofit and
community-based groups. These best practices were well-received and were

designed to prevent and eliminate employment discrimination on the basis of
race, color, sex, religion, national origin, disability and age without the filing
of a charge.

I have also served as a senior advisor to the White House Initiative on Asian
Americans and Pacific Islanders (AAPI). The Initiative is a national outreach
program created to further inform and to promote greater access to all federal

programs, particularly for underserved AAPI communities.

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