Priscilla Huang is the founding executive director of the Center for Asian Americans in Action, a nonprofit organization that conducts policy analysis, engages in policy advocacy, and strengthens the policy and advocacy capacity of community-based organizations to build a more equitable society for Asian Americans in Orange County and beyond.
Priscilla was first introduced to policy work as a Georgetown Women’s Law and Public Policy Fellow, and has since developed expertise in health care policy, immigrant health coverage, and reproductive and sexual health. She was a senior attorney at the National Health Law Program and also served as a senior advisor to the White House Initiative on Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders under the Obama Administration. Prior to that, she worked in Washington, D.C. at the National Asian Pacific American Women’s Forum and then at the Asian & Pacific Islander American Health Forum advocating on a variety of federal policy issues impacting Asian American, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander communities.