Minnie Phan
Senior Development ManagerMinnie Phan (she/her) joins KALW as Senior Development Manager, bringing to the organization strategic thinking, relationship-building, and fundraising skills. Previously, she cut her teeth on transportation policy at the California Bicycle Coalition, where she helped build CalBike into a powerful voice for mobility justice. She holds a BFA from California College of the Arts.
When Minnie isn’t advocating for robust public media, she is a prolific illustrator and writer.
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I came home from Vietnam to an America whose mainstream media said people like me—a US citizen, born, raised, and educated here—did not belong. I came home to stories of warrantless home invasions of US citizens and the labeling of peaceful protesters as domestic terrorists. During this divisive time in our country, who gets to decide who is an American? Who gets to shape culture? -
Narrative plentitude can cultivate understanding, which plants seeds of healing that break harmful cycles of exploitation and abuse.
