Cathy Dang-Santa Anna has organized in labor and community-led development for nearly 15 years with Restaurant Opportunities Centers United, the Retail Action Project, Asian Pacific American Labor Alliance, and other grassroots organizations in Los Angeles and New York City. She served as Executive Director of CAAAV Organizing Asian Communities for five years, and now works as a Senior Advisor with the Center for Empowered Politics (CEP) and the CEP Education Fund. She was a 2019-2020 Soros Equality Fellow.