Elected Experience
State & National Democratic Party Delegate (Sanders, 2020). Won a competitive race for Precinct Committee Officer, unable to serve due to an unexpected move.
Other Professional Experience
Writer, section editor, editor in chief The Daily of the UW and bylines at The International Examiner. Teaching & research assistant at UW. Assistant Producer UWTV. Software engineer at Code.org, Fencing Time, and Microsoft. Nonprofit executive director Whole Washington. Certified coach Rain City Fencing Center.
Education
Graduated Inglemoor High School with a full IB Diploma (2009) and received a Bachelor of Science in Informatics: Human Computer Interaction from UW School of Information (2014).
Community Service
Open-source software development
Statement
Washington has been a lifeboat in a churning sea of embarrassing national politics. As our country loses freedoms (like Roe V Wade), and is ravaged by pandemic, inflation, ecological collapse, and democratic erosion, the people have held strong defending our state’s values and way of life. I’m running for Governor because we can’t wait for Congress to secure our own futures in the state we call home.
I’m a lifelong Washingtonian. I was educated by our public schools like Inglemoor High (go Viks) and UW (go Dawgs). I’ve worked up and down our tech industry from the scrappy Code.org to the multinational Microsoft. I’ve been a full-time movement leader at Whole Washington organizing marches, leading ballot initiative campaigns, and testifying to commissions in Olympia. If elected, I’d be Washington’s first Governor of Viet descent.
Washington has every ability to implement life changing policies like universal healthcare, a housing guarantee, and tuition-free higher education. These universal services will provide immediate relief to millions and ensure nobody is left behind while enabling us to make important transitions in the face of changing technology and global competition. These policies aren’t just possible, they are sensible investments in public goods.
Our state has a higher GDP per capita than even the wealthiest nations of the world like Norway and Sweden. It’s home to 13 billionaires, leading industries, and top research institutions. But our greatest wealth is the ingenuity, independence, and compassion of our people.
The world we want is possible today in Washington and is only a matter of political will. I aim to be that political will whether through active citizenship or from inside the Governor’s mansion. I am your organizer, but you my fellow Washingtonians are the movement.
Get involved at www.publicstackhouse.org. Our future awaits us.