About Me

I am a Bay Area native: born in Santa Clara and growing up in San Jose and Morgan Hill. I went to Archbishop Mitty for high school, attended UC Irvine to study and eventually dual majored in Biological Sciences and Chemistry, and I returned to the bay to start a career in biotech.

I am aggressively Californian: overly fond of avocado toast and terrified of weather.

I have lived in Sunnyvale District 6 for ten years and am raising a family here: my older child has attended Lakewood Tech EQ Elementary since transitional kindergarten and will be going into fourth grade at Fairwood Explorer Elementary in the fall. My younger child will be turning one in October.

I have served on the board of Sunnyvale Education Foundation (SEF) since 2020. SEF is a non-profit organization that supports enrichment for students in all schools in the Sunnyvale School District. I was key in the recent update to the SEF mission to include advocacy, fundraising, partnerships, and collaboration. I served as Vice President of the organization in 2021-2022.

I was elected to the Sunnyvale School Board in November 2022 and have served as a trustee on the board for two years. I helped to guide the district through its post-covid recovery for students, teachers, and families, and to steer the development of the district’s five year strategic plan.

Over the last two years, I assisted Sunnyvale for Equity in Education in advocating for better transportation for the high school students of North Sunnyvale attending school at Fremont and Homestead, culminating in the development of a new express VTA route that bypasses downtown Sunnyvale and halves the time that students would otherwise spend on the bus.

I am the daughter of Vietnamese refugees, and my family succeeded in realizing the American Dream. My goals in volunteering and public service are to help others do the same. After the US withdrew from Kabul, I organized household donations from neighbors and businesses to help the resettlement of an Afghan family in Milpitas. I volunteered with Beto O’Rourke’s organization, Powered by People, with Vietnamese language translation after Texas lost power in its winter storms. I also volunteer with PIVOT, a progressive Vietnamese organization that runs VietFactCheck, fighting rumors and disinformation in monolingual communities.

I have the deep knowledge, broad experience, and community values to ensure your voice is heard on City Council.