She previously served as president of the Society for Ethnomusicology, and founded the Committee on the Status of Women with Elizabeth Tolbert in 1996.
[2] Wong was nominated to be a member of the National Council on the Humanities by President Barack Obama in December 2015.
[6] Wong has studied taiko and is part of Satori Daiko, a performing group in Los Angeles.
[4] Wong has also published on Chinese-American and Japanese-American jazz, Asian-American hip-hop, and Southeast-Asian immigrant music.
[1] Wong has been a part of the oral history collective project Women Who Rock: Making Scenes, Building Communities.