As the Policy Director for AAPI FORCE-EF, Sydney advances legislation and ballot initiatives for economic justice, progressive fiscal policy, and a multiracial, intergenerational, and multilingual democracy. Sydney is a part of a long lineage of movement organizers and advocates, and she has spent over a decade advancing grassroots organizing and policy campaigns for racial, gender, and environmental justice. She is the daughter of an immigrant from China and a refugee from Vietnam, a nail salon worker and a factory worker. A first-generation college graduate, Sydney is also the product of U.S. refugee resettlement programs, public housing, free/reduced school lunches, K-12 public schools, and the University of California system. She has Masters in Public Policy and Masters in Urban Planning degrees from Harvard University and a Bachelors of Arts degree in Public Health from University of California, Berkeley.
