He has done both program and administrative work with youth, social justice, domestic violence, LGBT, Asian and Pacific Islander, anti-violence, environmental, and arts organizations. An immigrant from Taiwan, he lived in the American South, Los Angeles, and Orange County before moving to the San Francisco Bay Area to attend University of California, Berkeley. At Berkeley, he majored in molecular biology, but cut class for activism and queer theory. He feels himself continually being ethically transformed by an attentiveness to queer of color, transnational feminist, queer, and transgender politics.