Miya is the Co-Executive Director of the Movement Strategy Collaborative (MIC), a new organizer-led effort to amplify and accelerate California’s power-building movements. MIC is catalyzing a unified, multiracial, and intergenerational movement to scale-up organizing power for racial, economic, and environmental justice.

Miya was previously the Executive Director of the Asian Pacific Environmental Network (APEN). Starting at APEN as a youth organizer in the 1990’s, Miya has an extensive background in community organizing and a long history of working in the environmental justice movement. Miya was a participant in the First National People of Color Environmental Leadership Summit in 1991 and was on the drafting committee of the original Principles of Environmental Justice.

Through many years of leadership, Miya has supported the growth and expansion of several local, state, and national organizations to have impact through community organizing and base-building, integrated voter engagement, alliance building, and winning transformational policy for equitable climate solutions and transitioning to a clean and renewable energy economy for all.