ALLEN WONG
Program Manager of Social Services
BA, Physics, National Chang-Kung University, Tainam, Taiwan R.O.C.
Allen is the manager of CMAA's Social Services Department and is responsible for overseeing and ensuring the success of over ten programs that the agency provides for our clients.
Allen was born in Burma and moved to Chicago's Uptown neighborhood in 1987. In 1999, he began working for CMAA, assisting with our interpretation and outreach program.
As a manager in this department, Wong strives to help expand the senior services program and relate to immigrants and refugees in a personal way. Having experienced the hardships of being an immigrant in a new country, Allen makes himself available to those that are in the position he once was.
FUN FACT | Allen watches Burmese boxing matches called Lethwei.