Co-Founder & Executive Director

Recognizing the growing gap in engaging Chinese-Canadian youth on environmental, social, and political issues, Kevin co-founded hua foundation with the goal of increasing community participation through youth empowerment opportunities.

Kevin oversees hua foundation’s external relationships with youth, policy makers, community organizations, and institutions. Ask him about hua foundation’s youth incubator projects, its research and development, and its community work.

director of community capacity + strategic initiative

Christina is a 2.5 generation Cantonese settler born and raised on unceded territories including the lands of the three title-holding Nations: the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), skx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and səlílwətaʔɬ (Tsleil-Waututh). After completing her BA in Geography and Asian Canadian Studies, Christina was eager to apply her research skills in ways that centred community and community needs. Christina’s time at hua foundation has equal parts grounded and radicalized her, by providing both the support and fuel to pursue opportunities often out of reach for recent grads. She now is focusing on developing networks and supports for other racialized youth.

Christina currently leads the Language Access Project (LAP), to advocate for better language accessibility and equity across governments and institutions, and is an adjunct faculty with the University of British Columbia’s Asian Canadian and Asian Migration Studies (ACAM) program. She also leads hua’s internal transformation projects and co-leads the capacity building and consulting portfolios. Ask her about projects she implemented, such as building the Language Access Project, Chinatown Cares Grocery Delivery Program, or the Vancouver Chinatown Social Cohesion Report.

Kimberley Wong is a queer Chinese Canadian femme whose work mirrors the intersections of their identity. They have been recognized by the City of Vancouver and the Province of British Columbia for their accomplishments in climate justice and multiculturalism, and their work continues to evolve beyond this. Kimberley currently sits as the Co-Chair of the City of Vancouver’s Chinatown Legacy Stewardship Group and the Vancouver Just Recovery Coalition. They are also an elected member of the OneCity Vancouver organizing committee. Kimberley sees through the lenses and experiential knowledge of living as a renter, being an independent contractor in a precarious work landscape, and of a descendant whose ancestors have long histories organizing and changemaking for marginalized populations on this land.

Kimberley leads work on hua foundation’s Race and Equity Portfolio. Ask them about the anti-racism + solidarities resource and upcoming work @KimberleyLW.

Administration & Bookkeeping Assistant

Aya is a Japanese queer settler on unceded, ancestral territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), skx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and səlílwətaʔɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations. Aya is passionate about providing decolonial, low-barrier, person-centered support and services for underrepresented communities, while constantly holding ongoing conversations with herself and others about what decolonial practices and approaches actually mean and look like as a migrant individual. While she is not involved in the projects, she is excited to be a part of Hua.

Co-Share Engagement Lead

Kaitlyn grew up in the Cantonese diaspora on the unceded territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm, Sḵwx̱wú7mesh and səlilwətaɬ nations. Reckoning with the histories of migration and displacement woven into her existence remain some of her earliest and most formative sparks of curiosity and action towards justice, which continues to inform all her work today. Her interests include community-based storytelling, diasporic cultures, and appreciating how places and the people living within them uniquely shape each other. She has followed these curiosities across many different realms of study and work, such as facilitating community development through local food systems programs, coordinating neighbourhood-based arts and culture projects, or completing a BA in Sociology and an MA in Journalism. In any case, her ultimate pursuit of greater hope and liberation in the world always remains.

Kaitlyn stewards the work of the Co-Share Collective, supporting collaborative projects and partnerships across its participating organizations, including Hogan’s Alley Society, hua foundation, UBC ACRE, and Chinatown Celebration Society. Ask her about the Co-Share Collective or its related initiatives, and the shared joys and complexity of community-building.