Grace Pai is the Executive Director of Asian Americans Advancing Justice | Chicago, where she leads strategy for issue-based campaigns and power-building work. In 2021, she led a successful campaign to require Asian American history to be taught in all Illinois public schools – making Illinois the first state in the country to do so. Prior to joining Advancing Justice | Chicago in 2018, Grace worked on environmental and economic justice issues with The People’s Lobby and Reclaim Chicago. She has spent a decade organizing in Chicago and has trained hundreds of organizers and community leaders across the country.