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2009 National Community Service Achievement Award
Jamie Borromeo
Executive Director
National Council of Asian American Business Associations
475 North Whisman Road Suite 200
Mountain View, CA 94043
Cell Phone: (909) 859-5354
Jamie Borromeo is the Executive Director of the National Council for Asian American Business Associations [NCAABA] which is the largest national Asian business coalition in the United States. NCAABA provides a national voice for its network of over 380,000 Asian American small businesses and over 100 Asian business organizations and chambers of commerce on issues of economic development, public contracting, supplier diversity and public policy.
Jamie graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Sociology from the University of California at Santa Cruz in 2007 and was chosen as the Commencement Speaker for her graduating class. She participated in the University of California DC’s Fall 2006 program where she interned on Capitol Hill for Congressman Michael Honda who was the Chairman of the Congressional Asian Pacific American Caucus. During her internship, Jamie assisted in drafting legislation for more appropriations and services to Hurricane Katrina victims. This experience led her to write her Senior Thesis on “Hurricane Katrina: A Platform for Dispelling the Model Minority Myth” which analyzed the inequalities the Asian American community faced in the wake of the disaster. While in high school, Jamie was president of Diamond Bar High School’s Filipino club, Barkada, and taught a student-run seminar on campus that deconstructed Filipino Identity in the United States. She also worked for Councilmember Madison Nguyen, who is the first Vietnamese American to serve on the San Jose City Council.
Jamie currently lives in Oakland, California, where she is a volunteer for a number of grassroots organizations and campaigns. She is a board member of The Attitudinal Healing Connection Center, which works to end violence in West Oakland through art and music. She has also worked on both the Obama and Hillary Clinton Campaigns during the 2008 presidential elections.
