She currently works as communications director at the Los Angeles-based Asian Pacific American Legal Center, the nation’s largest civil rights organization for Asian Americans, and was formerly a longtime staff writer at The Orange County Register. She is a former AAJA-LA co-president, board member and a former national advisory board member who was once recognized by AAJA as Chapter President of the Year (along with then Co-President Henry Fuhrmann). She is an Orange County resident, and in her spare time, is pursuing an executive MBA at Chapman University.