Advisory Counsel
Kavi Vu is a Vietnamese American storyteller and community organizer from Atlanta, GA. In a society driven by statistics and analytics, she lives to tell stories that foster empathic and inclusive communities. She was recognized as Asian Americans Advancing Justice - Atlanta’s 2019 Rising Star and was a 2018 Fellow at the Center for Civic Innovation. She is committed to being a part of the movement that brings more Asian Americans to our screens, on the stage, and at the polls.
IG: @kavi.vu
FB: www.facebook.com/awkwardwavehello
TikTok: @kavi.vu
Priscilla Hung (she/her) has spent over 20 years dedicated to social justice movement-building, organizational development, nonprofit management, and decolonizing how movements are resourced.
Priscilla is Co-Director of Move to End Violence, a 12-year, $80 million capacity-building initiative of the NoVo Foundation, and housed at The Raben Group. Move to End Violence supports leaders in U.S. movements to end gender-based violence with a focus on racial justice, gender justice, and healing justice.
Previously, Priscilla was a Program Director at Community Partners in Los Angeles, where she provided capacity-building, peer learning, and knowledge sharing for social entrepreneurs, strategic initiatives, grantmakers, and fiscally-sponsored projects. Before that, Priscilla was Executive Director of the Grassroots Institute for Fundraising Training (GIFT). At GIFT, she worked with community-based organizations around the country to provide training, resources, and movement-building opportunities related to fundraising.
Priscilla is the former co-chair of the Los Angeles Asian American & Pacific Islander Giving Circle and former board chair of the National Asian Pacific American Women’s Forum. She holds a Bachelor of Arts in Women’s Studies and in Peace and Conflict Studies from the University of California, Berkeley.
IG: @priscillaxmn
Twitter: @priscillaxmn
FB: https://www.facebook.com/priscilla.hung.106
Diane Wong is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at Rutgers University, Newark. Previously, she was Assistant Professor and Faculty Fellow in the Gallatin School of Individualized Study at New York University. She holds a Ph.D. in American Politics and M.A. in Comparative Race, Ethnicity, and Immigration from the Department of Government at Cornell University. Her interests include American politics, Asian American politics, gender and sexuality, urban governance, comparative immigration, race and ethnicity, cultural and media studies, and community rooted research. As a first-generation Chinese American born and raised in Flushing, Queens in New York City, her research is intimately tied to the Asian diaspora and urban immigrant experience. Her current book project, You Can’t Evict A Movement, focuses on intergenerational resistance to gentrification in Manhattan’s Chinatown. Her work draws from a combination of methods including ethnography, participatory mapping, archival research, augmented reality, and oral history interviews. Her second book project is a co-edited volume with Mark Tseng-Putterman titled Contemporary Asian American Politics: Movement Moments and New Visions for the 21st Century. The book brings together a diverse range of issues from sex work decriminalization to abolition, deportation to decolonization, environmental justice to intergenerational memory. Her research has received the Byran Jackson Research on Minority Politics Award, Susan Clarke Young Scholars’ Award, and the Don T. Nakanishi Award for Distinguished Scholarship and Service in Asian Pacific American Politics. Her research has been funded by grants from the Russell Sage Foundation, National Science Foundation, Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center, National Endowment for the Humanities, Humanities New York, and Cornell University’s American Studies Program. Her work has appeared in Women's Studies Quarterly, Amerasia Journal, Urban Affairs Review, Asian American Policy Review, and a variety of book volumes, anthologies, podcasts, and exhibitions. As a socially engaged artist, Diane is a member of the Chinatown Art Brigade and co-founder of The W.O.W. Project, a youth-led anti-displacement initiative based out of Wing On Wo & Co. the oldest store in Manhattan Chinatown.
IG: @xpertdemon
Twitter: @xpertdemon
Tanzila “Taz” Ahmed is a political strategist, storyteller, and artist based in Los Angeles. She creates at the intersection of counternarratives and culture-shifting as a South Asian American Muslim 2nd-gen woman. She’s turned out over 500,000 Asian American voters, recorded five years of the award winning #GoodMuslimBadMuslim podcast and makes #MuslimVDay cards annually. Her essays are published in the anthologies Pretty Bitches, Whiter, Good Girls Marry Doctors, Love Inshallah, and in numerous online publications. She has published two poetry collections Emdash and Ellipses (2016) & The Day The Moon Split in Two (2020), is featured in Tia Chucha’s Coiled Serpent (2016) and her poetry has been commissioned by the Center for Cultural Power, PolicyLink, the Garment Worker Center, KPCC’s Unheard LA, and more. In Spring 2019 she was UCLA’s Activist-in-Residence at the Institute on Inequality and Democracy, in Summer 2017 was Artist-in-Residence at Shangri La Museum of Islamic Art Culture & Design, and in 2016 received an award from President Obama’s White House as a Champion of Change in Art and Storytelling. A protest sign she designed for the 2017 Women’s March sits in the permanent archives of the Smithsonian Museum of American History.
IG: @tazzystar
Twitter: @tazzystar
Personal site: www.tazzystar.me
