About CAMOC

Our Story

Founded in 2005, the Chinese American Museum of Chicago (CAMOC) is a dynamic cultural center for learning and connection in Chicago’s Chinatown.

The only Chinese American museum in the Midwest, CAMOC’s extensive archive of media and artifacts document the long history and cultural evolution of Chinese in the American Midwest. Our collection houses the lesser known stories of this region’s earliest laborers and merchants, driven east from the West Coast in the mid-nineteenth century, and extends to its fourth-generation Chinese American families here today alongside each subsequent wave of the newly arrived.

Mission Statement

Through a dynamic curatorial program, exhibitions, ethnographic scholarship, and partnerships throughout the city of Chicago, CAMOC fosters intergenerational, intercontinental dialogue to expand the historical record and our understanding of the Chinese American experience.

Our Team

  • Edward Jung, MA 鄭緯略, President
    Retired Operations Manager

    John Hsiao 蕭潁濰, Treasurer
    CPA

    Judy SooHoo, MBA 司徒妙華, Secretary
    Retired Marketing Manager

    Swee Cheng 鍾穗盛
    Engineer, UPS

    Richard Frachey 霍偉善
    Retired Application Developer

    Bob Davis 戴飛士
    Educator

    Chien-An Yuan
    Interdisciplinary Artist + Designer

    Rachel Poon

    Ram Roy

    Ada Tong

    John Rohsenow, PhD 羅聖豪博士, Life Director
    Professor Emeritus
    University of Illinois at Chicago

    Andrea Stamm, MA, MLS 安珠雅史丹, Life Director
    Librarian Emerita
    Northwestern University

    Soo Lon Moy, 梅素蘭 MA (2012-2020), Life Director
    Retired Public School Teacher
    Immediate Past President

    David K. Lee, Life Director
    Retired Engineer

    Kim K. Tee, DPM 鄭金光醫生, Life Director
    Podiatrist, Foot & Ankle Surgeon, Past President

    Wai Chee Yuen, Honorary Director

    Bennett Bronson, Honorary Director

    Chuimei Ho, PhD (President 2002 – 2006)
    Art Historian & Social Worker

  • C. W. Chan
    Businessman

    Carol Cheung
    Restaurant Owner

    Mark Chiang, PhD
    Associate Professor
    University of Illinois at Chicago

    Yaumu Huang, MFA
    Exhibition Designer
    Minneapolis Institute of Art

    Rebecca Sanders
    Executive Director
    Clean Energy Jobs and Justice Fund

    Susan Lee Moy, MA
    Public School Principal

    Charles Weber
    Retired Professor

    Theresa Mah
    State Representative

    Henry Moy
    Director
    Museum of the Red River

  • Chinatown Museum Foundation, which governs the Chinese American Museum of Chicago, has formed an Associate Board with the purpose of generating new opportunities for the Museum, especially with programming for high school and college students and young professionals.

    Angela Lin

    Consuela Hendricks

    Melissa Kocelko

    Lillian Wu

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