I am a youth activist, movement-builder, and multi-time non-profit Founder and Director centering social justice, immigrant rights, and anti-carceral youth equity and life development. As a daughter of working-class immigrants, I've learned throughout my life to grasp, fight for, and harness resources and opportunities not predisposed in my day-to-day life. My biggest commitment is inspiring--catalyzing--others to pull apart the boundaries of what they believe is possible.

Growing up in a predominantly low-income community in one of the most culturally-vibrant and diverse cities in the United States, raised by neighborhoods shaped by immigrant/refugee resilience and the stories of diaspora, my lived experiences as a first-generation Hoa-American has forged my lens for activism. I recognize disparities in how marginalized people are too-often neglected by leaders in power, unfulfilled government promises, and an increasingly inaccessible political system manifested in both local day-to-day institutions and historically-unjust systems impacting families and children, particularly people of color, across my home state of California, as well as nationwide.

As someone whose childhood best friend became deeply entrenched in gang violence and the school-to-prison pipeline, I realize palpably the pressing need to urge leaders towards government progress and public policy that dismantle cycles of violence and trauma harming underserved American youth, as well as target root causes including poverty, lack of quality public education, over-policing and disproportionate deportation rates in low-income, immigrant neighborhoods of color, and further systems that fail to restore, and rather incarcerate and suppress, the young generation.

I work to challenge systems that have hurt American people for too long, while reimagining anew—building life-affirming institutions for the most marginalized members of society, while uniting all people of diverse backgrounds and needs. Solidarity is crucial in this evermore needed journey to heal each other as a collective people, standing with each other with unwavering hope which we cannot lose for the sake of our democracy.