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Andrew Yang (楊安澤)

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Andrew Yang (楊安澤)

Identity Snapshot

  • English: Andrew Yang
  • Chinese: 楊安澤
  • Era: 1975
  • Geography: Schenectady /NY
  • Core roles: entrepreneur, lawyer
  • Source: TAH Foundation Who’s Who

Andrew Yang is an American entrepreneur, author, and politician born on January 13, 1975, in Schenectady, New York, to parents who immigrated from Taiwan. He holds a B.A. from Brown University and a J.D. from Columbia Law School. After a brief stint as a corporate attorney, he became CEO of Manhattan Prep before founding Venture for America in 2011, a nonprofit fellowship placing recent college graduates in startups in emerging cities. He was named a White House Champion of Change by the Obama administration in 2012 for this work.

Education

  • Brown Univ. — 1996 — B.S. Arts
  • Columbia Law School — 1999 — J.D.

Employment

  • Davis Polk & Wardwell — Attorney — (1999-2000) — Stargiving.com — (2000-2002) — Manhattan Prep — President, CEO — (2006-2012) — Venture for America — Founder — (2011-2017) — Humanity Forward Foundation — Founder — (2020-2021) — Forward Party — Founder, Co-chair — (2021-) — Works & Documents — The War on Normal People — Forward

Timeline

  • 1975-01-13 — Born in Schenectady, New York, to parents who immigrated from Taiwan.
  • 1996 / 1999 — B.A., Brown University; J.D., Columbia Law School.
  • 1999–2000 — Attorney, Davis Polk & Wardwell; 2000–2002 — Stargiving.com.
  • 2006–2012 — President and CEO, Manhattan Prep.
  • 2011 — Founded Venture for America, a nonprofit fellowship placing recent college graduates in startups in emerging cities.
  • 2012 — Named a White House Champion of Change by the Obama administration for the Venture for America work.
  • 2020–2021 / 2021– — Founder, Humanity Forward Foundation; founder and co-chair, Forward Party.
  • 2019-06-28 — Participates in the second round of Democratic presidential debates, the field’s only minority candidate of note (TJJ 中央社存檔, 2019-06-28).
  • 2019-12 — Ranked fourth among Democratic candidates as of 12/24; the 「freedom dividend」 UBI platform gains salience when Congress passes $1,200 adult relief checks in spring 2020 (19 Things That Happened in 2019, item (16)).
  • 2019-12-27 — VOA primary-forecast coverage (美國之音 馬隆) names Yang among the candidates 「陷入苦戰，但還在愛奧華州尋求突破」 alongside Klobuchar and Booker, as Biden leads the field ahead of the Iowa caucuses (民主黨問鼎白宮者眾多 (2019-12-27)).
  • 2019 初選辯論 — At the sixth Democratic debate (Loyola Marymount, Los Angeles), Yang: 「美國必須贏得美中之間的博弈」, China already leads in technology; on Hong Kong’s face-mask ban he said the mask law exists because masks interfere with AI facial recognition of protesters — his China/tech stance as recorded in the corpus (美國民主黨初選辯論 (TJJ 存檔)).
  • 2020-11-19 — Cabinet-transition coverage names him among the widely discussed Commerce Secretary candidates alongside Meg Whitman, Mellody Hobson and Terry McAuliffe — Commerce framed as the front line of US-China tech competition (拜登內閣人事報導 (2020-11-19)).
  • 2020-11-21 — Rumored as Biden’s Commerce Secretary (CNN via TJJ) — the first cabinet-level speculation following the presidential run (拜登將公布內閣名單, 楊安澤傳有望出任商務部長 (2020-11-21)).
  • 2020-12-23 — NYC Campaign Finance Board confirms he has filed paperwork to run for NYC mayor, seeking Bill de Blasio’s seat (楊安澤參選紐約市長, 競選財務委員會證實 (2020-12-23)).
  • 2021-06-22 — Loses the NYC Democratic mayoral primary, placing 4th among 10+ contenders: 「我只看數字…這場選舉我認輸」 (紐約市長初選投票 台裔參選人楊安澤宣布敗選 (2021-06-22)).
  • 2021-04 — During the mayoral campaign, posts on Twitter amid the rise in anti-Asian hate: 「旁觀者必須見義勇為，我們需要團結一致，在有人需要幫助時挺身而出」 — his most direct Asia-community statement in the corpus (美國仇視亞裔愈演愈烈, 台僑嘆弱勢只能自求多福 (2021-04-01)).
  • 2022-07-28 — Announces the Forward Party as a merger of his own Forward organization with the Renew America Movement (Miles Taylor) and Serve America Movement (David Jolly); party leaders claim third-party status, slogan 「不傾左，不偏右，往前進」 (美國前進黨稱已是第3大黨 (2022-07-28)).
  • Works — The War on Normal People; Forward.

Family

Network

  • Married to Evelyn Yang; father 楊界雄; mother |陳玲銖.
  • Listed in the |TAH Foundation Who’s Who (entries #219 and #2058).

Vault Holdings

TAH records held in this vault:

  • [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/whos-who-2058-andrew-yang|TAH #2058 — Andrew Yang 楊安澤 (2018/03)]]
  • 06)
  • 02)
  • [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/ota-219|TAH #219 — Andrew Yang 楊安澤 (encyclopedia record)]]
  • [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/videos134|TAH #134 — 楊安澤筆會新年年會演說：台裔子弟入主美國總統啓動 (2019/01)]]
  • [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/my-story-674|TAH #674 — 我認識的楊安澤：首位亞裔美國總統參選人, 王劭文 (2019/02)]]
  • [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/2019-important-events-4|TAH 2019 events #4 — Andrew Yang participated in the 2020 Presidential primary campaign]]
  • [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/event2020-5|TAH 2020 events #5 — Andrew Yang, first Taiwanese American presidential candidate]]
  • [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/our-footsteps-31|TAH #31 — Andrew Yang in 2020 U.S. Presidential Election, artwork by 陳秀芳 Susan Hsiu-fang Liu (2020)]]

Sources

Vault holdings — 2021 NYC mayoral campaign (deepen 2026-09-14, vault-only)

Coverage in the taiwanjustice-net corpus harvested into this vault extends his public record past the 2020 presidential run:

  • 19)
  • 19)
  • 23) — campaign ended in the Democratic primary.

From the record

  • 覆核（TJJ-A09240400-2, 2026-09-25）：本 slice 文章 1a2bdc08（台美人 category p3, 2025-04-26 快照）正文再驗證——「台裔楊安澤新書批美國制度失靈，擬下月組新政黨」條目確認見於正文，連結為真，無錯鏈、無虛鏈；2021-01-25 日期事實條目已在庫 — SKIP，無新材料。

  • 複核（TJJ-A09162345-19, 2026-09-24）：本 slice 文章 1a2bdc08（台美人台加人分類頁 p3，2025-04-26 存檔）正文再驗證——「台裔楊安澤新書批美國制度失靈，擬下月組新政黨」確認見於正文清單，subject 連結為真，無錯鏈、無虛鏈；2021-01-25 日期事實條目（含該文 wikilink）已在庫 — SKIP，無新材料。

  • 覆核（TJJ-A09171200-4, 2026-09-24）：本 slice 四篇 TJJ 文章（台美人台加人索引 6f2b431c、NATMA 標籤頁 08b82976、挺港聯合聲明 53455d7e、台美人分類頁 1a2bdc08）正文再驗證——subject 連結為真實提及，無錯鏈、無虛鏈；對應日期事實（含該文 wikilink）已在庫 — SKIP，無新材料。

  • 覆核（TJJ-A09170400-12, 2026-09-23）：本 slice TJJ 文章正文再驗證——subject 連結與本條目所載日期事實相符，無錯鏈、無虛鏈，無新材料— SKIP，已飽和。

  • During the 2020 presidential campaign — his wife Evelyn Yang (盧艾玲) publicly discloses a past sexual assault by an OB-GYN and sues alongside 31 other women; Yang: 「他為妻子驕傲，誰都不該遇到這種事」 — the corpus’s only Evelyn Yang biographical record (date resolved 2026-10-13: the tag-page record 楊安澤妻盧艾玲揭露遭性侵過往 (tag) carries 2020-01-16, consistent with 「中央社華盛頓16日」 in the article — earlier HOLD on 2019 campaign context closed) (台裔楊安澤角逐美總統 妻揭露遭性侵過往 (中央社存檔)).

  • 2021-09-10 — TJJ’s 台美人台加人 channel index carries 「台裔楊安澤新書批美國制度失靈，擬下月組新政黨」 — coverage of his post-campaign book launch (「Forward: Notes on the Future of Our Democracy」, released 2021-10-05) and the announced plan to form a new party the following month (the Forward Party), the first Taiwan-media record of his third-party project; the entry’s listing date on the page is 2021-09-10, consistent with the real-world news of 2021-09-09/10 (TJJ 台美人 category 索引, 2025-04-26 存檔).

  • 修正（TJJ-A10060700-8, 2026-10-14）：上條日期標籤原為 2021-01-25 — 原吸收者誤配：「台美人台加人 January 25, 2021」meta 行是「餐飲業苦撐，洛杉磯將恢復餐廳戶外營業」條目的收錄日期（快照 raw HTML 逐卡 DOM 配對），非楊安澤條目；楊條目卡內列 2021-09-10，且真實新聞（Politico/Insider 新書+新黨報導）為 2021-09-09/10。連結為真，僅日期修正。

  • 2020 — 鄭炳全’s Father’s Day memoir essay counts Yang’s campaign in the community’s register: 「首位台美人二世1975年次」, seven national debates, polling capped at sixth, the $1,000/month basic-income platform vindicated by the spring-2020 $1,200 relief checks, and the suggestion he run for NYC mayor — the community’s own tally of his run (鄭炳全〈2020 父親節省思〉).

  • Campaign-period reception: a New Hampshire couple who voted for Trump in 2016 defect to Yang 「受自由紅利政見感召」 — the freedom-dividend platform reaching beyond the Taiwan community; the article is indexed under its own tag page (受自由紅利政見感召，前川普支持者倒戈 (TJJ 存檔)).

  • 覆核（TJJ-A09221500-6, 2026-09-24）：本 slice 四篇（台美人台加人p354 6f2b431c、NATMA標籤頁 08b82976、拒一國兩制聯合聲明 53455d7e、台美人category p3 1a2bdc08）正文再驗證 — 本頁條目確認見於正文，連結為真；日期事實已在庫 — SKIP，無新材料。

  • 2021-02-19 — 參選紐約市長：楊安澤誓言為亞裔族群爭權益 — mayoral-campaign pledge on behalf of the Asian-American community, recorded on TJJ’s own tag page for the story (tag archive 2021-04-19; underlying article 2021-02-19; equivalent article already linked above) (楊安澤誓言為亞裔族群爭權益 (tag)).

  • 2021-06-22 — 紐約市長初選投票：台裔參選人楊安澤宣布敗選 — the tag-page record of the NYC Democratic primary concession, the corpus’s own tag index for the event (tag archive 2021-10-25; equivalent article already linked above, where his 「我只看數字…這場選舉我認輸」 is recorded) (紐約市長初選投票 (tag)).

  • 2022-07-28 — 美國前進黨稱已是第3大黨，台裔楊安澤號召排除政治極端 — 中央社華盛頓27日 coverage of the Forward Party merger (his Forward + Miles Taylor’s Renew America Movement + David Jolly’s Serve America Movement); in the article he writes 「我知道國家需要新種類的政黨，協助重新調整政治，扭轉撕裂我國的極化現象。」 (full-text article; equivalent article already linked above) (美國前進黨稱已是第3大黨 (2022-07-28)).

  • 2020-01-29 — 受自由紅利政見感召：前川普支持者倒戈為楊安澤效命 — the tag-page record of the New Hampshire defector feature (tag archive 2025-10-15; equivalent article already linked above) (受自由紅利政見感召 (tag)).

  • 2020-01-16 — 台裔楊安澤角逐美總統 — the tag-page record of the presidential-run coverage in which Evelyn Yang (盧艾玲)‘s disclosure appears (tag archive 2025-12-12; equivalent article already linked above; the tag date resolves the campaign context to 2020-01-16, consistent with 中央社華盛頓16日) (台裔楊安澤角逐美總統 (tag)).

Vault deepening note (2026-09-14, vault-only, slice 09140107-11)

  • Father entry now wikilinked to |Dr. Kei-Hsiung Yang (楊界雄) — his page’s Son entry verified on disk (reciprocal).
  • No vault pages exist for Evelyn Yang, Brown University, Columbia Law School, Venture for America, or the Forward Party; tah-tables content is already mirrored in the Timeline. No other existing-slug links apply.

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