Founder/Executive Director
Annie Lam

​​Dr. Annie V. Lam,  principal and founder of Lam Consulting Group, is a nationally recognized expert in public and nonprofit service. She has spent more than 15 years creating change and empowering others to do the same. 

From the farm fields of Sacramento to the halls of California’s state capitol, Annie has fought for more equitable opportunities for all through policy, advocacy, and innovative programming.  She started in the California State Assembly as an intern and gradually built a political and legislative career working for two prominent Asian American elected legislators, which culminated in the launch of Lam Consulting Group in early 2013.  

Her expertise centers on organizational change, leadership, advocacy, social justice, diversity, equity, and inclusion. She has scaled and transformed organizations working to expand the representation of women, system-impacted groups, and communities of color in the areas of electoral politics, public policy, and leadership. Annie has also designed and executed pipelining programs to prepare the next generation of leaders as change agents. Through her work, she has redefined leadership by assessing organizational culture and practices, creating sustainable pipelines for workforce excellence, and using research to evaluate programs and practices. 

Recognizing the various factors that led to her own socio-political awakening, she founded APIs Mobilize to help high school and college aged Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians, and Pacific Islanders throughout California realize their power through education and leadership training. The organization’s reach continues to grow as it expands programming to include solidarity work with BIPOC communities.

Annie has been honored for her transformational leadership, including being recognized with the Sacramento Bee’s inaugural, Top 25 Asian American Pacific Islander Change Maker Award, Sacramento Business Journal’s 40 under 40 Award, Bizwomen Headliner in Professional Services, the Asian Pacific American Leadership Foundation’s Woman Warrior Award, and the National Association of Asian Pacifics in Politics and Public Affairs Inaugural Forward Award, among many others.

She holds an Education Doctorate in Organizational Change and Leadership as well as a master’s degree in Public Administration and certification in public policy from the University of Southern California. She is a proud graduate of UC Davis where she earned a bachelor’s degree with honors in Asian American studies. 

Program and Marketing Coordinator
Angel Lin

Angel is a writer, researcher, and community advocate. As a first-generation Vietnamese American and the daughter of a single mother, her advocacy efforts have been dedicated to creating systems that improve immigrant families access to basic needs services. In 2022, served as the inaugural Santa Clara County Fellow at the Vietnamese American Service Center in San Jose. There, she worked with local leaders to develop strategic and culturally competent programming to expand access to health and human services in immigrant communities across Santa Clara County. 

Angel's research is fundamentally informed by a desire create innovative policies that serve immigrant communities. In her studies abroad, she conducted research comparing the Vietnamese diasporas of Paris, France and San Jose, California. Exploring the ways in which each nation's respective policies on race can inform civic engagement and grassroots organizing within communities of color, she developed a framework for cross-comparative racial policy analysis within Ethnic Studies. This work went on to be awarded the 2023 Matt Meier Award for Student Research and the 2023 Witold Krassowski Sociology Paper Award.

​​Angel's experience in creating supportive infrastructure for students informs her work at APIs Mobilize. As Student Body Vice President at Santa Clara University, Angel created a $56,000 Wellness Grant Program that distributed stimulus funds to student groups in the year following the Covid-19 pandemic. In 2020, she served as Chair of the Inclusive Excellence Student Advisory Council, in which she organized a student-led anti-racist reimagination of the campus police department. After being emboldened by the Ethnic Studies education she received in her undergraduate years, she worked with faculty members to create the university's first ever Disability Studies Minor. 

Angel Lin graduated as Valedictorian of Santa Clara University in 2023 with a Bachelors of Science in Sociology and Ethnic Studies. She is ecstatic about developing an empowering curriculum that prepares AAPI youth for a lifetime of service and leadership.