As a Chinese-American growing up in the San Francisco Bay Area, Victoria witnessed the impact the immigration and criminal legal systems had on her loved ones and community. At Pangea, Victoria is dedicated to supporting immigrants in their fight against deportation and criminalization. 

Victoria joined Pangea in September 2022. During law school, Victoria interned with Pangea Legal Services, East Bay Community Law Center, and Brooklyn Defenders’ New York Immigrant Family Unity Project, working with both detained and non-detained immigrants on complex immigration cases. Victoria also represented an immigrant youth before the Asylum Office with the California Asylum Representation Clinic, and worked part-time for a boutique immigration law firm. During an internship with the Contra Costa Public Defenders, Victoria drafted and litigated motions for clients accused of misdemeanor and felony charges before the Superior Court of California. She was also involved in Berkeley Law’s Womxn of Color Collective and Name and Gender Change Workshop. 

Prior to law school, Victoria worked as a supervising legal assistant at a private immigration law firm in San Francisco, working on a wide variety of immigration cases including asylum, family-based immigration, Special Immigrant Juvenile Status, VAWA, and U Visas. 

Victoria received her bachelor’s degree with honors from the University of California, Los Angeles (‘15) and her law degree from the University of California, Berkeley School of Law (‘22), where she was a Thelton E. Henderson Center for Social Justice Scholar.  

Victoria speaks English, Spanish, and conversational Mandarin Chinese.