Alice Y. Hom
CHANGE Philanthropy
Alice Y. Hom (she/they) is a community builder invested in bridging diverse and overlapping communities for social change. As the Director of Equity and Social Justice at Northern California Grantmakers, Alice focuses on racial equity with an intersectional lens that brings multiple issues, communities, and sectors together to build on the common good. Before joining NCG, Alice was a Soros Equality Fellow where she created a podcast and a digital archive on activism by LGBTQ People of Color. Prior to that, Alice worked as the Director of the Queer Justice Fund at Asian Americans/Pacific Islanders in Philanthropy.
She serves on the board of Borealis Philanthropy and on the Advisory Council for the Conscious Style Guide, a place where you can find information on inclusive, respectful and empowering language on ability/disability, age, ethnicity, gender, race, sexuality, and socioeconomic status. Her previous board service has included California Humanities, Astraea Lesbian Foundation for Justice, Visual Communications, and APAIT. Alice is a historian with a PhD from Claremont Graduate University, an MA from UCLA, and a BA from Yale University. She is the co-editor of Q & A: Voices from Queer Asian North America and Q & A: Queer in Asian America and has published articles in various journals and anthologies.