The incoming executive director of Equality California, the statewide LGBTQ rights group, recently announced his new leadership team.Tony Hoang, who will take the reins of the organization October 16, according to a news release, stated that several members of the team are longtime staffers who have been promoted from their current positions.
Others will continue in their roles. The boards of EQCA and the EQCA Institute announced in April that Hoang would succeed Executive Director Rick Chavez Zbur, who is leaving to run for an open state Assembly seat in Southern California.
Hoang will be the first Asian American executive director and the third out gay man of color to lead the organization."I'm honored to step into the executive director.