Trinh Le

Trinh is the Political Director of PANA, the Partnership for the Advancement of New Americans. She is one of five children from a Vietnamese refugee family. Her parents fled Vietnam by boat in the 1980s, and she was born in a refugee camp in Indonesia. She was raised in a working class single parent household. Trinh has over twenty years of organizing, policy advocacy, coalition building, and leadership development experience having worked at various organizations in the Bay Area, Biloxi, Mississippi, and San Diego, California. She holds a dual bachelor’s degree in Sociology and Asian American Studies from UCLA. She earned her Master’s degree in Nonprofit Leadership and Management from the University of San Diego. She is also a co-founder of Asian Solidarity Collective, Viet Voices, and the San Diego Asian Pacific Islander Coalition.