Vanessa Huang is a queer Chinese-American writer, poet, filmmaker, cellist, and community organizer born in 1984 in Berkeley to immigrants from Taipei. Vanessa grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area and has lived in Taipei and Providence, Rhode Island, and since 2006, Oakland.
Vanessa is the campaign director for Justice Now, a human rights organization that partners people in women’s prisons with communities outside to build a world without prisons; was a member of the organizing committee for Transforming Justice, the first-ever gathering to develop national priorities towards ending the imprisonment of transgender and gender non-conforming communities; and is a member of the SF Bay Area Chapter of INCITE! Women of Color Against Violence.
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