Roland Hwang

Roland Hwang serves on CAPA’s Advisory Board. He is an attorney. Roland is a co-founder and President of American Citizens for Justice, a civil rights advocacy and education organization serving the APA community. Roland teaches Asian American history in the Department of American Culture, Asian/Pacific Islander American Studies at the University of Michigan. He has served as a commissioner of Michigan Asian Pacific American Affairs Commission, chair of the Michigan Advisory Committee to the US Commission on Civil Rights, hearing referee for the Michigan Department of Civil Rights, and as president of the International Institute, Association of Chinese Americans, and Michigan Asian Pacific American Bar Association.

Roland is an activist and lifelong Michigander, born in Detroit to parents who emigrated here from China.