After graduating from the University of California, Berkeley, she got a good media job and was earning much more than her immigrant father. When she resigned and decided to become a volunteer, her parents were appalled and mystified, feeling they were watching their dreams evaporate as she pursued hers. First she went to Hunan, China and then to AUW, believing that it is important for her to “complete the narrative full circle” by giving these young women the chance of a good education like her ethnic Chinese parents from Vietnam struggled to give her.