California 92.99%
Texas 1.94%
New York 1.22%
District of Columbia 0.93%
Pennsylvania 0.93%
Other 1.99%
I was born and raised in San Mateo County. My father was a FedEx worker. My mom is a Taiwanese immigrant who works as a lab assistant at Kaiser. Growing up working class profoundly shaped my values. When I was 5, my father suffered a traumatic injury that left him paralyzed from the waist down, and my mother had to work two jobs in order to make ends meet.
At a young age I experienced what it was like to fall through the cracks. I wanted to study biology to learn how people could heal from chronic injuries; and I wanted to work to make sure that our government and medical system worked for all of us, and not just the wealthy few. In the middle of my junior year of college at Harvard University, I was evacuated from campus and returned back to my hometown of South San Francisco. We saw how COVID disproportionately affected the working families in our communities, in housing, healthcare, childcare, and our education system. We saw how the public health crisis of police brutality was not just a distant injustice, but a real and present problem in our own community. And I successfully ran for city council to bring the change and justice that we wanted to see in our Community.
I came back to South San Francisco to the community I grew up in to serve and improve the lives of our residents. On the city council, I’ve seen that the many issues that we are facing are very systemic in nature and the disparities exist far and wide. We need bold action to address many of our issues and create a society in which working people don’t just survive, but thrive in our community. I’m running for state assembly with a very clear purpose—Sacramento can’t just work anymore for the wealthy and well connected. It has to work for all of us.
Before being elected to the city council, I was a community organizer. I have organized with Sunrise Movement Boston, the Harvard Undergraduates for Environmental Justice, Fossil Fuel Divest Harvard, and YDSA. My work was focused on environmental, economic, and racial justice. I graduated from Harvard in May of 2021 with a degree in Human Developmental and Regenerative Biology with a minor in Government. I have also conducted undergraduate research in a neuroscience lab at Massachusetts General Hospital.
