CEO
Chinese American Service League (CASL)
CHICAGO, Illinois
As CEO of the Chinese American Service League (CASL), Paul Luu oversees the largest and most comprehensive Asian American Pacific Islander (AAPI) social service provider in the Midwest. Under his leadership, CASL added the Center for Social Impact, which works to find data-driven solutions and equitable policy initiatives to engage and support CASL’s clients, employees, and programming.
Paul has led CASL’s outreach to Chicago’s communities of color and led the organization to new heights during his tenure as CEO during the COVID-19 pandemic. While continuing with CASL’s traditional programming, Paul spearheaded the much-lauded senior meals program, the new behavioral health and clinical services program, and a partnership with The Asian American Foundation (TAAF), making CASL one of three AAPI anti-hate action centers in the nation.
Prior to CASL, Paul revitalized the Vietnamese Association of Illinois (VAI) by instilling a strong board of governance, operations, resource & development and extending the organization's regional footprint.
Paul also spent a decade with the Boys & Girls Clubs in leadership capacities from programs, operations, resource & development, annual campaigns, and Board governance. He worked directly with various Chicago community neighborhoods to help build and restore Clubs to serve thousands of underprivileged youth. In the City of Chicago, Paul spent five years opening Clubs in the West Garfield Park, Roseland, West Pullman, Morgan Park, and South Deering communities. While working in Champaign County, Illinois, for the Boys and Girls Clubs, Paul helped spearhead new Clubs in the Champaign and Urbana School Districts, faith-based organizations, the park district, and historically underserved communities.
A passionate and proven nonprofit advocate, Paul is committed to building organizational capacity for mutual assistance associations for all immigrant communities in the greater Chicagoland area. He works to strengthen organizations’ resources & development, board governance, and strategic planning to better serve the unique and complex needs of minorities and immigrant communities. Paul brings a diverse range of approaches to the nonprofit field, drawing from 25 years of nonprofit management & leadership, organizational practices & training, and nonprofit best practices.
Paul is a proud ally of Chicago’s immigrant and minority communities. He has served in committee positions, including for the Mutual Assistance Association of Illinois, Voices for Illinois Children- Thought Leaders of Color, Secretary of State Jesse White’s Asian American
Council, and City of Chicago Human Relations Council- Equity Advisor Council, VanderCook College of Music- Chicago, and Champaign County Housing Community Relations Board.
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Monday, April 11, 2022
10:30 AM – 11:30 AM
