Her father, Hsu Ho-jui, came to study in the US in the 1960s. He supported Taiwan's democracy movement and once served as president of the Taiwanese Association of Los Angeles. As a result, he was blacklisted for a time and so was unable to return to Taiwan to visit his relatives. He later became a co-founder of World United Formosans for Independence.
父親許和瑞 60 年代來美讀書，支持台灣民主運動的他，曾任洛杉磯台灣同鄉會會長，因此一度被列入黑名單，無法返台探親，之後成為台灣獨立建國聯盟的創始人之一。