Background and Experience

CURRENTLY AND PAST HELD SIERRA CLUB VOLUNTEER LEADERSHIP POSITIONS:

• Vice President for Conservation (Since May 2024)
  
• National Board of Directors (Since May 2023)
  
• National Board Committees
  
  • Conservation Policy (Since 2022)
    
  • Green Ventures Partnership (Since 2024)
    
  • Equity, Inclusion and Justice Committee (Since 2023)
    
  • Finance and Risk Management (2023-2025)
    
  • Volunteer Leadership and Activism (VLAC) (2023-2024)
    
  • National Federal Organizing Program - Volunteer Co-Lead (2022-2023)
    
  • Asian Diaspora in Solidarity Group Volunteer Coordinator (Since 2022)
• Maryland Chapter:
  
  • Conservation Chair (Since 2023)
  • Maryland Youth Leadership Council (Since 2023)
  • Nominations Chair (2022)
    
  • Conservation Task Force Member (2020-21)
    
  • Growing for Change Equity Taskforce Member (2020-2022)
    
  • Committee Member:
    
    • Legislative
      
    • Transportation & Energy
• Montgomery County Group (2019-2022)
  
  • Chair
    
  • Membership Chair
    
  • Issue Teams:
    
    • Forest Conservation
      
    • 100% Clean Energy
      
    • Land Use and Transportation
      
    • Political Committee

                         
OTHER PAST AND CURRENTLY HELD LEADERSHIP POSITIONS:
(Includes the breadth of leadership experience at various nonprofit, community, and political organizations)

• Board member – Maryland Legislative Coalition for Women (MLAW) – (2019-2024)
• Director, South Asians for America (SAFA), Maryland - (Since 2021)
• Commissioner on the Montgomery County Commission on Children and Youth (2016-2019)
• Chair, Committee on Mental Health (2017-18); Chair, Committee on Opioid Drug Abuse (2016-2017)
• President – Takoma Foundation – Local fund of the Greater Washington Community Foundation (2015-2017)
• County Executive’s Transition Team Member - Thriving Youth & Families (2018-19)
• Montgomery County’s Bus Rapid Transit Corridor Advisory Committee (2017-2018)
• Mental Health Ambassador, Asian American Health Initiative (2017-18)   
• Founding member and Outreach lead for Montgomery County Coalition on Hate Crime (2016-2017)
• Founding member for Maryland Coalition on Refugee Resettlement (2015)
• Montgomery County Public Library Advisory Committee Member (2014 – 2018)
• Montgomery County Public School Leadership & Improvement Strategic Planning Team (2010-2016)
• Board of Directors, Parent Teacher Association for Maryland, and Montgomery County Council (2008-2016)
• Board of Directors Neighborhood Civic Association 

                                                                           
 POLITICAL:

• Maryland Democratic Diversity Leadership Council Executive Team Member – 2019-Current
• Montgomery County, Maryland Democratic Party Central Committee Member – 2021-Current
• Precinct Organization Chair for the Montgomery County Democratic Party (259 precincts) 2019-2024
• Chair Emeritus & Board member, Dist. 18 Democratic Caucus – (2021-2022)
• Chair, MD Dist. 18 Democratic Caucus (2019-2021)
• Vice Chair, MD Dist. 18 Democratic Caucus (2017-2019)
• Maryland Democratic Party Committees – Since 2015
• Board of Director Women’s Democratic Club (2016-2019)
• South Asian Women for Biden – Co-Lead Organizer for Maryland (2020)
• National Women’s March on Washington in DC, Lead Organizer in Montgomery County, MD (2017)

OTHER CAMPAIGNS:

• Maryland Democratic Party Coordinated campaigns 2016; 2018; 2020; 2022, 2024
• Harris-Waltz Campaign Volunteer Organizing, Get Out The Vote activities (2024)
  
• Candidate for Montgomery County Maryland Democratic Central Committee (2022)
• Organizing for Biden-Harris Campaign; Georgia Senate Run-off races (2020 & 2022)
• Candidate for Montgomery County Council At-Large (2018)
• Mid Atlantic Coalition for Biden Campaign – Voter outreach in MD, PA and North Carolina, Virginia (2020)
• Congressman Jamie Raskin’s campaign (2015-2016)

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