Crystal Jang

She is one of the co-founders of the San Francisco Bay Area based organization, Asian Pacific Islander Queer Women and Transgender Community (APIQWTC), as well as community-based organization Older Asian Sisters in Solidarity (OASIS), which is now a part of APIQWTC.

Jang also coordinated the first district-wide LGBT sensitivity trainings, as well as the first teacher training on transgender issues as San Francisco Unified School District’s first middle school coordinator for sexual minority youth and families.

[1] She was the first Asian Pacific Islander in the San Francisco Unified School District to publicly identify as LGBT.

In 1991, "frustrated with the lack of mature lesbian groups in San Francisco,"[3] she organized with other Asian and Pacific Islander lesbians and founded Older Asian Sisters in Solidarity (OASIS), whose members are of age 35 or older.

[3] In 2013, she served as the Grand Marshal of the San Francisco Pride Parade,[2] and received the Phoenix Award at APIQWTC's Lunar New Year Banquet.