We partner with foundations and community-based organizations to provide expert project management from issue analysis to project design and implementation to capacity building and coaching to evaluation.

Lloyd Y. Asato

Lloyd Y. Asato is the owner and founder of BuildCommunity. Lloyd specializes in issue analysis, project design, scenario planning, project management, and capacity building.

Contact Information
(202) 527-9793 Direct
(415) 990-7913 Personal Cell
lloyd@buildcommunity.net
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Publications and Presentations

Advancing Racial Equity and Healing
New York University, Langone Medical Center, Center for the Study of Asian American Health’s 6th Annual Asian American, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander Health Conference: “Connecting the Dots: Promoting Health Equity for Asian American, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander Populations”
Moderator (2011)

Health through Action: Improving the health and wellbeing of communities through innovative capacity building targeting emerging AA and NHPI leaders.
Oral presentation to the 139th American Public Health Association Annual Meeting (2011)

Health Equity for Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander Children and Youth: What’s Racism Got to Do With It?
Article in Poverty & Race July/August 2011
Co-author with Laurin Mayeno, Joseph Keawe’aimoku Kaholokula, M.D., David MKI Liu, M.D. & Winston Tseng. Ph.D. (2011)

The Affordable Care Act and You: Next Steps for San Diego
Keynote presentation to 3rd Annual San Diego API Community Health Network Forum (2011)

Measuring Our Progress: Racial Equity Evaluation Tools and Success Markers
Oral presentation to America Healing: Building the Field and Connecting the Leaders Conference with Sally Leiderman, Donna-Marie Winn, Ph.D., and Lori Villarosa (2011)

Balanced Scorecard for Small Rural Hospitals
Oral presentation to the Third Annual Western Region Medicare Rural Hospital Flexibility Conference with Gregory Wolf, MBA (2006)

Development, Implementation and Results of Hawai‘i Health Workforce Needs Assessments
Oral presentation to the Pacific Global Health Conference with Kelley Withy, M.D., Joshua Hekekia, MPH, and R. Palama Lee (2005)

Building Public and Private Coalitions
Oral presentation to the Governor’s Conference on Voluntarism with Bruce Coppa (2001)

Mentoring Outcomes, Classroom Outcomes: Do the things that make us feel good inside cause the results we desire?
Oral presentation to the 17th Annual Excellence in Education Conference with Vincent K. Pollard, Ph.D., and Robin Brandt, Ph.D. (2000)

Hawai‘i Youth at Risk? Conceptual Challenges in Communicating a Statewide Mentoring Initiative
Co-author with Vincent K. Pollard, Ph.D., and Val Johnston, Ph.D. (1999)

Beach Cleaners Encounter the Futures of Sustainability: A Discussion of Youthful Futures Action
Oral presentation to University of Hawai‘i Futures Studies (1998)

University of Hawai‘i Pre-Law Society Open Forum with Gov. Benjamin Cayetano
Forum Moderator (1998)

Radically Reinventing Living: From the End of Work to the Beginning of Life, Learning and Leisure
Oral presentation to University of Hawai‘i Futures Studies with Joshua Cooper, Ph.D., Richard A. K. Lum, Ph.D., and Sally Taylor (1997)

What we do.

BuildCommunity is a full service consultancy specializing in initiatives that address health inequities and the advancement of social justice.

We partner with foundations and community-based organizations to provide expert project management from issue analysis to project design and implementation to capacity building and coaching to evaluation.

Advancing Equity

We focus our energies on healing communities, addressing policies and practices that create or sustain inequities, and supporting the development of robust community-led solutions.

Capacity Building

Meaningful change in immigrant and rural communities require broad coalitions. We build the capacity of community leaders to convene and lead cross-sector/cross-cultural collaborations.

Health Information Technology

Investments in Health Information Technology are improving health outcomes and reducing the cost of care. We work to ensure that immigrant and rural communities benefit from these investments.