Motivated by a Christian World View,
Skip Li Engages the Culture
at Home and Abroad
Seattle Pacific University's vision for
graduates to
engage the culture in order to change the world was personified in this
year's Commencement speaker,
SPU alumnus Chi-Dooh "Skip" Li.
Born in Bombay, India, to a Chinese diplomat and his wife, "Skip" Li is not
easily confined by nationalistic borders. He earned a bachelor's degree from
Seattle Pacific College in 1966 and a law degree from the University of
Washington.
Admitted to the Washington State Bar in 1971, he quickly demonstrated his
mettle in both private and government practice. He was Republican Caucus
attorney for the Washington State House of Representatives and legal counsel
to Washington's Governor Daniel Evans before establishing his own law firm
in 1977. Since then, Ellis, Li & McKinstry has
represented more individuals and organizations in religious
liberty cases than any other law firm in the region.
As a youth, Li spent six years in Guatemala and Colombia. This experience
planted the seeds of compassion for the poor in Third World countries. Li
decided to help break their cycle of poverty by assisting the landless poor
to buy their own farmland. In 1982, he began the Agros Foundation, which now
brings positive change into the lives and livelihoods of
villagers in Guatemala, Nicaragua and El Salvador.
Li's many talents include writing a regular column in The
Seattle Post-Intelligencer where he offers a reasoned
discourse on the issues of our culture. A former member of the Seattle
Pacific Board of Trustees, Li has for many years provided SPU with legal
counsel and has played a significant role in helping define what the
institution stands for.
Li and his wife, 1967 Seattle Pacific graduate Cynthia Vice Li, have three
children and make their home in Seattle. SPU honored Li at Commencement by
conferring upon him the honorary degree of doctor of humane letters.
Both professionally and
personally, he has shown intelligence, insight and faith-based
initiative in bringing legal and vocational aid to thousands
at home and abroad.
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