OUR TEAM

JENNI AU LALLIER Founder and Director Jenni Au Lallier is the Founder and Director of Adoptee Mentor Program, San Francisco's first International Adoptee Mentoring Program started by and for all international adoptees. She is a Korean adoptee, born in Inchon in 1977, and survived her first year with a foster mother. At the age of 1 Jenni was adopted by Chinese American parents and raised as an only child in Honolulu, Hawai'i. The inspiration for AMP began when Jenni befriended an international adoptee while working at Clorox. While Jenni had always felt constant support and love from her family and friends, she found this relationship to be uniquely fulfilling. Through this friendship she was introduced to many other international adoptees and has found these connections invaluable in validating her feelings, emotions and questions around the experience of being an international adoptee. She became inspired to help young international adoptees connect with adult international adoptees so they could experience this connection and support at a younger age. Jenni hopes AMP will be a way for international adoptees and their families to connect, share their experience and support one another. Prior to starting AMP, Jenni was a Marketing Associate in Brand Management at The Clorox Company. She also gained financial market exposure as a Junior Associate in Equity Research at Morgan Stanley. Jenni holds a Bachelor’s Degree from the University of Washington and is a member of the 1997 and 1998 NCAA National Championship Women’s Crew Team. Throughout her post-college years Jenni has maintained close involvement with local non profits and has volunteered for causes that resonate with her passions, including Girls on the Run, Junior Achievement, and The Junior League.

ED LALLIER Treasurer Ed Lallier graduated with a BA from Union College in 2000. He has worked in the finance industry as a Sales Manager at Bloomberg LP since 2000. Ed has served as a volunteer in the local community with Big Brothers/ Big Sisters, JJC Youth Basketball, and One Brick.

JULI FRAGA, Psy.D. Advisory Psychologist Dr. Juli Fraga is a Korean adoptee who was raised in Omaha, Nebraska. She attended collage at the University of Nerbaska, Lincoln and graduate studies drew her towards the west coast. She completed her doctoral degree in Colorado and her internship and post-doctoral fellowship at the University of California, Berkeley. Dr. Fraga is a staff psychologist at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) School of Medicine. She also has a private practice in San Francisco and Berkeley. She is also the co-chair for the Division of Women, a division of the Asian American Psychological Association. She is passionate about community service that focuses on the unique needs of the adoptee community.

CINDY FENG Advisory Board Member Cindy is a graduate of UC San Diego and grew up in Palo Alto, California. She currently resides in San Francisco and works as a product manager for Telephia, a wireless market research firm. Previously, Cindy managed professional service consulting engagements for Fortune 500 companies as a consultant with Deloitte Tax. In her spare time she enjoys staying active and giving back to the community. Cindy was an integral in the planning of the San Francisco Asian Museum of Art's annual gala benefit which raised funding for the non-profit museum. She also enjoys experimenting with the diverse culinary experiences San Francisco offers. Recently, Cindy has added snowboarding and rock climbing to her repertoire of longstanding hobbies which include running, tennis, and hiking.

VICTORIA BRUNO Advisory Board Member Born in S. Korea, adopted by a loving Italian-American family at age 3½ and raised in a small, non-diverse town on Long Island, NY. Longing for more diversity, she went to Washington, DC, where she received her Bachelors in International Development from The American University and launched her career in nonprofit management (with emphasis on capacity building/technical assistance, program development and implementation, training, volunteer management and fundraising). She volunteered with a mentor program for Korean-adoptees, ages 3-5, and their families called Chingoo and began participating in adult-adoptee activities. She moved to the Bay Area in the summer of 2005 and currently works for the local chapter of a national healthcare nonprofit. She eagerly immersed herself in the Bay Area’s transracial adoptee/mixed heritage communities by joining AKA-SF, volunteering with Pact Adoption Alliance and serving on the board of iPride. Victoria’s two older sisters (Rose and Christina) are her parents’ biological daughters. Rose has three children (2 daughters and 1 son) adopted from Korea, Christina has three biological daughters and her cousin, Fran, has a daughter adopted from China. Victoria is passionate about working and connecting with the transracial adoption community.

ANDREW BEIL Advisory Board Member Adopted at 4 _ months from Busan, S.Korea, and raised on a small island near Seattle, WA. He grew up in a loving family of six, with two biological siblings, and a younger sister adopted from Korea. He moved to Seattle, WA after high school where he attended the University of Washington. While in Seattle, he became involved with a variety of not-for-profit organizations. He first became involved with the Korean Identity Development Society (KIDS), helping out with a day camp held for Korean Adoptees. He served on year on the KIDS board in 1998, and continues to co-direct the KIDS camp for the past two years. Through KIDS, he got in touch with a new organization, Asian Adult Adoptees of Washington. He helped AAAW re-organize, severing as vice-president and president of the board, while they received their 501(c)3 non-profit status, and help start up their teen program and solidify the organizations activities. In 1999, he got involved with Holt International Camps for international adoptees. He was a counselor for two years at camps in Oregon, Nebraska, and New Jersey and then Asst. Director for the camps the next three years. He also helped out with two programs in Seattle, The Service Board (TSB), which mentored at-risk teens in inner Seattle, and Ski-For-All, an organization that provided outdoor activities for developmentally disabled children. He moved to San Francisco in Fall 2006, and has been working at a restaurant, while finishing his second degree. He heard about AMP through a board member of AAAW, and is excited to become involved with transracial adoptees and the non-profit community here in the Bay Area.

DR. ELAYNE CHOU Advisory Psychologist Dr. Elayne Chou is a Counseling Psychologist in private practice in Berkeley, California, with a specialty in psychotherapy and career counseling with culturally diverse individuals and couples. She also works at UC-Berkeley and is active as an organizational consultant and coach with an emphasis on diversity consulting. In the past, she has taught as an adjunct professor at San Francisco State University and Diablo Valley College, and as a visiting scholar at Renmin University in Beijing, China. She has served as Program Director with Asian Pacific Psychological Services, a non-profit community mental health center serving the low-income immigrant and refugee Asian populations in the East Bay. She received her Ph.D. in Counseling Psychology from The Ohio State University. Elayne is Chinese-American and grew up in Indiana. She is eagerly looking forward to soon becoming an adoptive mother of a child from Taiwan. In her spare time Elayne enjoys international travel, yoga, laughing with good friends, and trying new restaurants.