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Last updated: September 2026

What I’m Focused On

Designing and maintaining systems that help families and providers navigate child care more easily
Strengthening insight infrastructure for child care resource & referral and community partners
Building a personal operating system that connects signals across meetings, emails, and conversations into actionable priorities — so nothing falls through the cracks in advocacy work
Training family child care providers on practical AI use — helping them communicate with families, manage enrollment, and amplify their voice in policy spaces
Getting public early childhood data onto the record — records requests, source crosswalks, and citable chronologies, so advocacy can start from evidence instead of rebuilding it

Supporting MyChildCarePlan.org and statewide family-facing tools as Web Content Manager
Serving as Secretary with the Family Child Care Association of San Francisco (FCCASF)
Through FCCASF, partnering with the SF Department of Early Childhood (DEC) developmental screening team to train family child care providers to use Sparkler, in Chinese
Continuing strategic work with the Asian Early Childhood Education Alliance (AECEA)
Participating in the UPK Mixed Delivery Workgroup through the San Francisco Local Child Care Planning Council (LPC)
Advising the Heising-Simons Foundation’s Child Care Justice work in California
Serving on the Technical Work Group and Advisory Committee for the Center for Home-Based Child Care Research

How to capture and connect policy evidence — real stories from providers and families — into a traceable system that strengthens advocacy over time
Research on belonging and situation design, and how it applies to early childhood systems
How narrative and power shape what becomes “politically possible” in child care
Practical ways AI can support the human work of care and community — from provider communication tools to personal systems that surface what matters most

Speaking up with clarity while staying grounded in compassion
Holding clearer boundaries without abandoning collaboration
Designing for belonging as a core requirement, not a nice-to-have
Threading one initiative through multiple workstreams — building roots into systems so that each connection strengthens the whole
Unicycle riding and 5-ball juggling — a quieter part of who I am that rarely shows up in my advocacy circles, but keeps me honest about balance, patience, and practice

If our current focus overlaps, I’d be happy to connect.