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Last updated: March 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
Current Collaborations
- 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)
- Guest speaker for Children’s Council of San Francisco’s Professional Learning Community — leading an AI, Data & Marketing session for Chinese-speaking FCC providers
- Exploring collaboration with SF Department of Early Childhood (DEC) on Sparkler early intervention screening adoption among family child care providers
- Engaging with ECPC subcommittees on workforce and federal policy, and delivering public comment on UPK mixed delivery coordination
- Participating in SF ECE Coalition steering on spring advocacy actions, including May Day and Day Without Child Care
- Continuing strategic work with the Asian Early Childhood Education Alliance (AECEA / ACECA)
- 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
What I’m Learning
- 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
What I’m Practicing
- 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
If our current focus overlaps, I’d be happy to connect.