LING-LING CHANG

DIRECTOR-DIVISION III, WALNUT VALLEY WATER DISTRICT

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On November 8, 2005, Ling-Ling Chang became the first woman to be elected to the Walnut Valley Water District.  Ms. Chang, a long-time resident of Diamond Bar, is chair of the District’s Public Information Committee, as well as an alternate on its Finance Committee. Ms. Chang also serves as an alternate representative to the Puente Basin Water Agency. 

Ling-Ling Chang is also currently the President & CEO of the Youth Science Center. Prior to joining YSC, she served as the Executive Director of the United Family Services Center.  Before entering the non-profit sector, she was a project manager consulting and training physicians, system administrators, directors, and medical staff at various hospitals across Southern California. Ling-Ling Chang has been active within several communities, contributing to programs such as the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation in implementing Breast Cancer Awareness within various college campuses, as well as recruiting donors for the National Marrow Donor Program.   

Ms. Chang is also active throughout the local community, serving on numerous prestigious boards.  She served as a Parks & Recreation Commissioner in the City of Diamond Bar, and is Chairman of the Diamond Bar Community Foundation, a non-profit organization dedicated to enhancing the quality of life in the city. She is also a Co-Founder of ImagineTHAT!, an art program for at-risk youth in Pomona, and a graduate of the Leadership Program in Interethnic Relations (LDIR), a program identified as one of the most effective human relations training models in the nation by the President's Advisory Council on Race and Reconciliation and the National Conference on Community and Justice.  She is also an active board member of Cal Poly Pomona’s Partners in Education. 

She is also a graduate of Gallup Organization’s Gallup University Program, a program that seeks out top executive leaders of organizations and corporations to train them in strategic organizational/leadership improvement within their prospective organizations/companies.   

She is a National Fellows Alumnus with the Asian Pacific American Women's Leadership Institute, and also a graduate of a mediation training program.  She is trilingual in English, Mandarin, and Taiwanese.