Myron Dean Quon is the Executive Director of NAPAFASA, the country’s national nonprofit that prevents and reduces substance use disorders and behavioral addictions in Asian American communities through research, advocacy, education, and capacity building. Before NAPAFASA, Mr. Quon was the Executive Director of The Asian Pacific American Legal Resource Center, where he supervised a team of attorneys and community organizers focused on empowering low-income Asian immigrants of DC, Maryland, and Northern Virginia. Prior to APALRC, Mr. Quon was the inaugural Legal Director of Advancing Justice-Chicago, where he successfully led advocacy efforts to repair the presumptive exclusion of Asian American-owned business enterprises from the City of Chicago’s public contracting affirmative action program.

Mr. Quon has taught for the Berkeley Law School legal externship program, as well as at Duke Law School and Northwestern University. Mr. Quon received his MBA from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University; his JD from Boston University School of Law; and his BA from the University of California at Berkeley.

Mr. Quon and his husband are super-busy raising two elementary school-age foster brothers of Cambodian descent.