Meet Our CEO
Joon Bang
A recognized expert in the field of aging services, Joon began his nonprofit career with the NAACP Legal Defense Fund. Prior to joining Iona, he served as President and CEO of the Seattle-based National Asian Pacific Center on Aging and Executive Director of the Korean American Coalition (KAC) in Los Angeles. That city’s leaders honored Bang as a 2018 Impact-Maker to Watch, recognizing his skill in “building consensus and coalitions to ensure the rights we all fight for regardless of ethnicity, faith, gender, sexual orientation, or political affiliation.” Under his leadership, KAC was selected as a 2017 California Nonprofit of the Year. Joon serves on the Board of the American Society on Aging and supports the Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC) Communications Equity and Diversity Council (CEDC) as an appointed member to ensure equity, diversity, and inclusion are applied to the programs and policies of the FCC to better serve older adults.
