About Me

I am the daughter of immigrants from Taiwan and Hong Kong. When I see our patients at the clinic, I am reminded of my own grandfather who didn’t speak English. He was lucky to have a provider who spoke his own language given the health issues he faced. Seeing firsthand the positive impact on his health, I carry a deeply ingrained commitment to ensure health care in language and culture is accessible to others like him.

I joined Asian Health Services (AHS) over twenty years ago as a Program Planning Assistant and had the opportunity to serve in diverse roles. Under Sherry Hirota’s leadership, I learned how to respond to our patients’ and community’s needs with impactful advocacy, center our programs and services to ensure high-quality health care for our patients, and create platforms to ensure our patients understand and assert their rights to health care.

At AHS, I led our advocacy and multi-million dollar fundraising campaigns, strategic planning, development, the AHS Business Council, compliance and communications. I also bring a wealth of relationships and connections to California State legislators, community groups across the state and local businesses due to my work co-founding, developing and directing the California Healthy Nail Salon Collaborative, which passed four statewide bills and has evolved into a national initiative in four states. Recently, my collaboration with a cohort of rural and urban FQHCs through NACHC resulted in the initiation of a federal funding stream to seed innovation and technology initiatives for community health centers nationwide.