Lee Lo / “Leelo” (she/they) is a Co-Founder and Executive Director of Asian American Liberation Network. Lee oversees the organization’s programmatic vision and strategies toward social justice and collective liberation. Lee first began organizing as a youth advisory member to Hmong Women’s Heritage Association’s youth program, advocating and leading programs to address issues for Hmong youth in Sacramento and informing Sacramento County’s implementation of Preventative and Early Intervention mental health services. Most recently, Lee worked as the California Health Policy Manager and served as the interim Director of California Policy and Programs for the Southeast Asia Resource Action Center, developing multi-pronged policy and community engagement strategies to advance health equity at the state-level. Lee has dedicated the last 10 years to organizing systemic change for communities of color through youth development, capacity building, programmatic implementation, and policy advocacy.

Please talk to Lee about: all things healing & innerwork, writing, journaling, poetry, Naruto, food, and traveling.

Moiz Mir (he/him) is a South Asian Muslim and a lifelong Sacramentan. Before he had the words to describe what organizing even was, he found his start as a student organizer of clubs and projects as early as high school and throughout his undergraduate career at Sacramento State University. Since graduating, he has found and made spaces to foster political home in struggles for environmental, climate, and social justice. He has worked on and helped co-create advocacy campaigns at every level of government, and has trained hundreds of young people and local activists in civic engagement, leadership skills, and community organizing fundamentals. He is currently a board member of Social Justice PolitiCorps and board advisor for 350 Sacramento. Moiz spends his free time cooking, reading and writing, biking, and rock climbing.

Please talk to Moiz about: building sustainable revolutionary structures, re/connecting to ancestral languages (Urdu and Arabic), faith and purpose, Andor, and Fullmetal Alchemist:Brotherhood.