Truman Project Partner Leland Cheung is featured in this article from Sampan, a bilingual Chinese-English news source in New England, about 13 candidates running for office in Massachusetts. Cheung is a candidate for Lieutenant Governor.
Cheung was first elected to the Council while pursuing a master’s in public administration at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government and a master’s of business administration at the MIT Sloan School of Management. He was the first currently-enrolled student to be elected to the council as well as the first Asian American. Before assuming his role as city councillor, Leland worked as a senior associate at Masthead Partners, a Cambridge-based venture capital firm focusing on digital media, mobile and Internet infrastructure. Cheung is an executive committee member of the Massachusetts Democratic State Committee and a member of the Massachusetts Democratic Platform Drafting Committee.
He is a commissioner on Governor Patrick’s Asian American Commission and Advisory Council and is the Massachusetts state chair of the Democratic Municipal Officials. Cheung is a 2012 recipient of an Eisenhower Fellowship and a partner of the Truman National Security Project.
