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 and trans Chinese Mexican writer and grassroots activist. He has lived in San Francisco and Oakland since 1988 and has been organizing in the API and Latinx queer communities for over thirty years. He’s a lifetime learner, holds an MFA from California College of Arts, and is finishing up an MA from San Francisco State University. Chino is working on a collection of personal essays and was recently awarded the Steinbeck Fellowship from San Jose State. He is a retired San Francisco Firefighter.
Bobby C.
Bobby C. is an immigrant from Hong Kong who also grew up in San Francisco and has transitioned from female to male for close to three decades. Bobby is a former 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 is a Design Operations Manager / Creative Producer and an entrepreneur. He spends his free time shooting photos at community events, making visual art, and writing poetry.
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.
Clark Musto
Clark Musto has been an active member in the LGBTQIA+ community for many years, with over 5 years dedicated to activism for the transgender community (specifically within the healthcare research space). Clark brings deep experience, empathy, and intersectional awareness to his work. Currently based in Berkeley, CA, Clark shares life with their beloved pup, Lily, and remains committed to building a more just and inclusive world for all gender-diverse people.
Sindhu Muthusamy
Sindhu Muthusamy (he/they) is a South Indian genderqueer transmasc person living in unceded Ohlone land, also known as Oakland, California. They are a weaver of dreams, images, and stories, and a lover of herbalism and visual arts. They work as an occupational therapist and are passionate about gender affirming care. They prefer to spend their time dipping in any fresh body of water or giggling with friends.
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.