Los Angeles, CA (February 6, 2025) — The Durfee Foundation has announced that Debra Suh, CEO of YWCA of Glendale and Pasadena, has been elected to serve on the Durfee Foundation’s Board of Trustees, effective January 1, 2025.
Debra Suh has worked for nonprofit organizations for over three decades to build a safer and more equitable society. As the executive director of the Center for the Pacific Asian Family (CPAF), an organization founded to support survivors of domestic and sexual violence in the immigrant Asian/Pacific Islander community, she addressed the intersections of gender and racial/ethnic inequity for over 23 years. In November 2024, she became the CEO of the YWCA of Glendale and Pasadena, cities where she raised her two children and grew up, respectively. Debra also serves on the board of the Asian Pacific Institute on Gender Based Violence and Sequoyah School.
The Durfee Board of Trustees, made up of a majority of descendants of R. Stanton and Dorothy Durfee Avery, began electing non-family Community Trustees in 2010 to obtain fresh perspectives on Durfee’s operation and programs, deepen community ties, and increase diversity. Past Durfee Community Trustees have included: Robert Sainz, Nike Irvin, Leslie Ito, Vera deVera, Robin Kramer, Cristina Regalado, Bruce Saito, Belen Vargas, and Bill Watanabe.
The profiles of the current Board of Trustees can be found here.
The Durfee Foundation’s focus is on extraordinary people who are making a better Los Angeles.