Ed Tepporn joined the Angel Island Immigration Center Foundation (AIICF) team in November 2019. He has over twenty-eight years of experience in the nonprofit sector. He previously served on staff at the Asian & Pacific Islander American Health Forum (APIAHF) for nearly sixteen years, most recently as APIAHF’s Executive Vice President. He has also served as Director of Education at Saint Louis Effort for AIDS and as Community Co-Chair of Missouri's Statewide HIV/STD Prevention Community Planning Group. As an associate at Aplomb Consulting, he helped to staff media relations for amFAR’s National AIDS Update Conference and the San Francisco Pride Celebration and Parade.
Tepporn received a B.A. in Biology and Psychology from Washington University. He was also a Nelson Mandela Scholarship recipient in the MSW program at the George Warren Brown School of Social Work. He is a certified professional leadership coach. In 2019, he was awarded a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Award for Health Equity. He was also recognized as a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Culture of Health Fellow.
