ANGELA VO deputy director

angela vo (she/chị) is a queer left Việt organizer and strategist living on Lenape land (Brooklyn, New York) by way of North Carolina. She joined Emergent Fund in September 2020, and is honored to resource frontline movement work at this pivotal moment. She believes in our power as the people and that we will win.

Angela brings a decade of experience across racial, immigrant, and gender justice organizing. The roots of her politics come from Black, Indigenous, and women of color feminists; kitchen table conversations with her working class Southeast Asian refugee family in the South; and, her multiracial organizing experience. She started as a racial equity teaching fellow in Durham, NC and Boston, MA, and detoured into amazing adventures in national digital campaigns, local politics, education, research, and development. She’s proud to find a political home in Southeast Asian organizing and is inspired by the Southeast Asian Freedom Network, Việt Solidarity and Action Network, and many other constellations of change led by our people. She nerds out on how we can center healing and pleasure as winning movement strategies; what freedom and love feel like in the personal and collective body; and, putting sriracha or fish sauce on all the things. In another life, Angela would be living off the grid surrounded by turquoise water and snacks, but otherwise you can find her stirring up good trouble in the kitchen, in the streets, or on the interwebs.

At Emergent Fund, she is committed to Black queer, trans and women leadership, our collective liberation, and building new worlds where we all thrive. Everyday she strives to embody her values, honor the refugee magic in her veins, and to be in right relationship with others, the land, and the water. Come build with our team at info@emergentfund.net.