Cathy Dang
has organized in the labor movement and community-led development for nearly two decades. While serving as the Executive Director of , she developed a robust organizational infrastructure to lead campaigns on housing justice and played a critical role in shaping national alliances toward building greater political alignment on racial, gender, and economic justice. Dang is currently the national co-director of , a national network of organizations building the power of working-class pan-Asian communities. She has been a freelance consultant to various organizations and foundations, building their capacity through one-on-one coaching for organizers, facilitation on strategy and organizational models, and program development. She is originally from Ridgewood, Queens, New York, and Los Angeles, and is a daughter of Chinese-Vietnamese refugee parents who raised her in their nail salon in downtown Brooklyn. She speaks English and Cantonese.
