Raymond Partolan
Raymond Partolan (he/him) is the National Field Director at APIAVote. For almost a decade, he has been an advocate for immigrant and refugee communities. Prior to APIAVote, was the Program Associate at Asian Americans Advancing Justice – Atlanta. A coalition-builder, he played a key role establising the Georgia Immigrant Alliance for Civic Empowerment, and has engaged with the media extensively to bring the challenges faced by communities of color into the public eye. He was named one of the 25 Most Influential Asian Americans in Georgia in 2018 and 2019, and won three Grammy Awards in 2019 for his work on the highly-acclaimed jazz album, American Dreamers: Voices of Hope, Music of Freedom. Raymond graduated summa cum laude from Mercer University in Macon, GA and is trilingual in English, Spanish, and Tagalog.