About the Chair

U.S. Congresswoman Grace Meng is serving her seventh term in the United States House of Representatives, where she represents New York's Sixth Congressional District. Grace's district is located entirely in the New York City borough of Queens, including west, central, and northeast Queens. 

Grace is the first and only Asian American Member of Congress from New York State, and the first female Congressmember from Queens since former Vice-Presidential nominee Geraldine Ferraro. 

In Congress, Grace serves on the powerful House Appropriations Committee where she is New York's senior member and is Ranking Member of the Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies and a member on the Subcommittee on State and Foreign Operations. The House Appropriations Committee is responsible for funding the federal government's programs and activities. 

In 2024, Grace was elected Chair of the Congressional Asian Pacific American Caucus, which advocates for the needs of Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander (AANHPI) communities across the nation. She helps lead the Tri-Caucus, a joint effort with the Congressional Black Caucus and the Congressional Hispanic Caucus, to represent the interests of the nation’s three largest racial and ethnic minority groups. She also serves as co-Chair of the House Bipartisan Taskforce for Combatting Antisemitism and Vice-Chair of the LGBTQ+ Equality Caucus. 

Grace has proudly passed several pieces of her legislation into law. This includes legislation combating the rise in hate and violence against Asian American community during the COVID-19 pandemic, striking "Oriental" from federal law, and establishing the first step in creating a national museum of Asian Pacific American History and Culture. She also introduced legislation to promote the teaching of AANHPI history in schools across the country, establish Lunar New Year, Diwali, and Eid as federally recognized holidays, and protect language access for 25 million individuals in the U.S. with limited English proficiency.

At every turn, Grace has fought to expand opportunities for communities of color, young people, families, small businesses, and women. 

Prior to being elected to Congress, Grace served in the New York State Assembly. Before entering public service, she worked as a public-interest lawyer. 

 Born in Elmhurst, Queens, and raised in the Elmhurst, Bayside, and Flushing sections of the borough, Grace attended local schools and graduated from Stuyvesant High School. She also attended the University of Michigan (Go Blue) before earning her law degree from Yeshiva University's Benjamin Cardozo School of Law. 

Grace is raising her family in Queens, where she lives with her husband, Wayne, and their two sons.