Adam Ryan Chang is the Executive Director of Oasis Legal Services, where he leads a $3M+ multi-site organization providing holistic legal and social services to LGBTQ+ immigrants, particularly asylum seekers. Under his leadership, Oasis has grown revenue from $1.5M to $4M, expanded staff and program capacity to serve nearly 600 clients annually, and eliminated financial barriers by making its asylum program fully free. He has secured transformative philanthropic investments, including a $2 million award from Yield Giving, and serves as an inaugural grantee of the Silicon Valley Social Venture Fund (SV2) Immigration Equity initiative. Adam works closely with institutional funders, corporate partners, and donor-advised funds to align resources with community-informed impact, and is a trusted partner to philanthropies advancing equitable, trust-based grantmaking. He is also known for advancing durable coalition-building practices, emphasizing the importance of naming differences in power, priorities, and lived experience (rather than defaulting to shared ground) to build more transparent, accountable, and lasting partnerships.

A second-generation Asian American born and raised in San Francisco, Adam brings a deeply personal and intersectional perspective to his leadership. A foster-adoptive parent to a Chicana/Latine daughter, he is proudly queer and openly shares his experience living with HIV to combat stigma and champion inclusive, equity-driven policies. He holds a J.D. from the William S. Richardson School of Law at the University of Hawaiʻi and has been recognized by the James Irvine Foundation Leadership Awards.