API TransFusion is organized by an intergenerational group of Asian and Pacific Islander transmasculine individuals. Some of us have been connected and dedicated to the community for years, some for decades. We are an all-volunteer operation, by and for the community we serve.
Co-Organizers
Willy Chang Wilkinson
Willy Wilkinson, MPH is an award-winning author, speaker, and public health consultant who has been advocating for marginalized populations since the early days of the HIV/AIDS pandemic. He is the author of the Lambda Literary Award-winning book Born on the Edge of Race and Gender: A Voice for Cultural Competency, which illuminates trans experience from a Chinese American and mixed heritage perspective. He launched the first trans healthcare access program in the nation and the first program for trans men who have sex with other men, organized the first support groups for transmasculine people of color, and founded API TransFusion.
Chino Lee Chung
Chino Lee Chung is a queer Chinese Mexican writer and grassroots activist. He’s been organizing in the API and Latinx queer and trans communities since 1988. He holds an MFA from CCA and SFSU. Chino is working on a collection of personal essays and is a 2024-2025 Steinbeck Fellow. He’s a featured narrator in “So Many Stars; An Oral History of Trans, Nonbinary, Genderqueer, and Two-Spirit People of Color” that is currently exhibited at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts “Roots and Futures of Queer and Trans Movements” through August 2026. He’s a retired SF Firefighter.
Bobby C.
Bobby C. is an immigrant from Hong Kong who also grew up in San Francisco and has been transitioning from female to male for three decades. Bobby is a titleholder, Mr. Transgender San Francisco 2004 (TGSF), and a former gallery curator of an annual transgender visual art gallery, and sang as a 2nd tenor as part of the GAPA Men's Chorus. He has been a web designer for several LGBT+ Nonprofit organizations and a longtime volunteer for the APIQWTC (Asian Pacific Islander Queer Women and Transgender Community). Bobby works in the creative and marketing fields and spends his free time shooting photos at community events, creating visual art, writing poetry, and riding his bike.
James Santos
James Santos,a first-gen Filipinx immigrant, ex-foster youth, CSA survivor, neurodivergent, disabled, trans masc nonbinary individual, and has lived in the Bay Area for over 20 years. A dedicated community organizer, he has worked with Filipinx immigrant rights, Queer Trans People of Color (QTPOC), and transmasculine/nonbinary grassroots groups. With over a decade in nonprofits, spanning housing and literacy, he taught Middle School ESL in Oakland for five years. Transitioning to tech, he became a self-taught programmer in the entertainment industry. He founded the first QTPOC in Tech Mentorship Night, supporting marginalized individuals entering tech. A writer, activist, and technologist, James thrives through resilience, community, and healing.
Organizer
Bio will be posted soon.
Eli Maliwan
Eli Maliwan AKA Saxreligious is a Thai American professional jazz saxophonist, composer, and educator who was born and raised in the Bay Area. His debut album is entitled "Elysia Marginata," which is a type of sea slug that decapitates itself and grows a new body. Because his deadname is Elysia, Eli felt very inspired by the tiny sea muse and composed a jazz/lo-fi hip hop/retro video game music fusion album as a self-care love letter to himself and other quirky children of the ‘90s.
Zee
Zee (he/him) is part of the queer, trans and ace/aro community. He was part of the Cal Queer Grads Organizing Gaggle back in his Berkeley grad school days and is now helping coordinate your food this weekend, so contact him for any questions!