Doua Thor (Vice Chair)

Doua Thor is currently the Chief Impact Officer at Everyday Impact Consulting (EIC). EIC’s mission is to create lasting impact for our clients and the communities they seek to serve through reimagining systems and developing innovative strategies to break through barriers. Most recently she was the Vice President, Strategy and Influence at Sobrato Philanthropies and before that, she was a political appointee in the Obama Administration as the Executive Director of the White House Initiative on Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders during his second term.

She earned her Master of Social Work degree from the University of Michigan and her B.A. from Wayne State University. Doua and her family were resettled in Detroit and are among the many thousands of Hmong refugees who were resettled in the United States after supporting and fighting alongside the U.S. during the Vietnam War.