Dr. Jacqueline Thanh is a heart centered nonprofit executive with an entrepreneurial drive & breadth of design justice & community innovation expertise. She is a clinically trained social justice practitioner & human rights advocate that has directly served more than 9000 youth & families through grassroots & grass tops forums while cultivating transformation & sustainability for social justice ecosystems domestically & abroad. As a first-generation scholar-activist, her track record of vision casting, storytelling, & team building alongside fundraising is embodied through more than a decade of complex trauma informed movement work across racial & generational lines in the American South. She is an inaugural Harvard University Climate Justice Design Fellow, Resilience in Climate Equity Award Recipient, & was honored as a New Orleans Magazine Top Female Achiever in 2023 as well as a 40 under 40 honoree of The Gambit's 2022 Awardee.

Joanna Kong is the Executive Director of the Sun Family Foundation, a private charitable foundation focused on advancing educational opportunities and the well-being of the underserved in Orange County. Prior to leading the Foundation, Joanna worked as a corporate attorney specializing in representing companies through various stages of their development, including mergers, acquisitions, and other exits.

Joanna volunteers her time on several nonprofit boards, including the Orange County Community Foundation, Orange County Grantmakers (current Chair), and the UCLA Lowell Milken Center for Philanthropy and Nonprofits. She was previously a Board member for the Guang Yuan Charitable Foundation, a nonprofit providing need-based scholarships in Taiwan.

Joanna is a passionate advocate for the empowerment of Asian American communities. Joanna is the co-founder of Asian American Futures, a nonprofit organization that is dedicated to inspiring and empowering young AAPIs to become civic leaders who actively shape a more inclusive and multi-racial future for our nation. In 2020, amid the Covid-19 pandemic, Joanna co-authored a children's book called R is for Rice, that celebrates Asian American food and culture.

Joanna received her B.A. in Criminology, Law, and Society from UC Irvine and her J.D. from UCLA School of Law.

Sara Sadhwani is an award-winning political scientist and political commentator. She is currently an assistant professor of politics at Pomona College, a Democracy Fellow at the Harvard Kennedy Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation, and serves as a commissioner on the California Citizens Redistricting Commission, which successfully redrew congressional and state legislative districts in 2021. She also cohosts Inside the Issues: The Podcast with journalist Alex Cohen for Spectrum News SoCal. 

Her research examines elections, representation, and public opinion with a focus on Asian American and Latino voting behavior. She has published widely in academic journals and her analysis of elections and politics has been featured in outlets such as The New York Times, Politico, Washington Post, NPR, and TIME Magazine, and she regularly provides insights for news outlets throughout California. 

Sara earned her doctorate in political science from the University of Southern California and a bachelor of philosophy from the University of Pittsburgh. Prior to academia she worked for nearly a decade advocating for the rights of immigrants at social justice organizations in Los Angeles. She serves on the executive board of the Western Political Science Association, as a senior researcher for AAPI Data, and was a visiting scholar at Stanford University.