Richard Lui - Community Leadership

Community Leadership

Lui is active in volunteerism and leadership in the minority community. He has spoken on his experience as a minority, diversity in America, and intercultural skills.

At the Asian Pacific American Institute on Congressional Studies (APAICS) conference, Lui addressed the issue of Asian American leadership in the media and news industry. At the Advancing Justice Conference, similar to the NAACP convention, Lui led a seminar on the 2010 Census and AACAJ's 2011 report on Asian American demographics. The Aspen Institute invited Lui for seminars on the state of race in America in education and pop culture, and foreign affairs in U.S. journalism.

The U.S. State Department asked Lui to join the U.S. Speakers Program to discuss his work with Asian American organizations, and as a community leader. This took him to Vietnam, Indonesia, and China. Harvard University similarly had Lui speak on social entrepreneurship and international security.

Lui speaks on various business topics for groups like the Fuqua School of Business at Duke University, Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan, Google, Cisco, and others.

Lui says his work in affordable housing is partially driven by his childhood experience on welfare. He volunteers for the Habitat for Humanity and traveled to Ghana in 2010 to build homes. He is on the board of directors of Crossroads, a homeless services non-profit, and of PRI, a non-profit affordable and homeless housing developer. He currently leads a team of pro bono strategy consultants for the CCT organization, providing strategy consulting services to non-profits.

Lui started community work in high school as a YMCA counselor. He taught addicted mothers computer skills at the American Indian Family Healing Center, and served as campaign manager for a San Francisco race for College Board.