This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it is the associate director of the Asian & Pacific Islander Institute on Domestic Violence (API Institute) at the Asian & Pacific Islander American Health Forum (APIAHF), a national health policy organization dedicated to strengthening policies, programs, and research to improve the health and well-being of Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians, and Pacific Islanders.
Beckie has worked in the movement to end violence against women for over twenty-eight years. She co-founded Asian Women's Shelter (AWS) in San Francisco, one of the first Violence Against Women (VAW) programs in the nation that could meet the language and cultural needs of Asian survivors of domestic violence and trafficking. She served as the founding executive director for over twenty-one years, from July 1988 through January 2010. Beckie has extensive experience in providing multilingual, multicultural services to domestic violence and trafficking survivors and their children, innovative program development, prevention, community building, policy-making and institutional advocacy.
Beckie has provided peer-based training, technical assistance, and facilitation to a wide range of groups on local, state, national and international levels. Her TA and training work includes leadership as one of the key staff members for AWS's national OVW TA project, Peer-to-Peer TA. She also serves as faculty and advisor in collaboration with other OVW TA providers, including partnership with the Family Violence Prevention Fund, Praxis, and advisory committee member for the National Judicial Institute on Domestic Violence.
Beckie has served as a member of the Department of Defense Task Force on Domestic Violence, National Advisory Committee for the Greenbook Project, California Domestic Violence Advisory Committee, and is one of the founding members of the Asian & Pacific Islander Institute on Domestic Violence. She has received numerous awards in recognition of her work including the 2010 Flame of Justice Award, Chinese for Affirmative Action; 2009 Roselyn C. Swig Award, Domestic Violence Consortium/ Partners Ending Domestic Abuse; 2009 Extraordinary Woman Award, Flyaway Productions; 2005 Sister of Fire Award, Women of Color Resource Center; 1999 Next Millennium Award for Community Organizing; and 1998 California Peace Prize from The California Wellness Foundation.
