Jennifer Pae is the Northern California Chair of the CDP Asian Pacific Islander Caucus and Commissioner of the Oakland Community Policing Advisory Board. She also serves as Vice President of the APA Democratic Caucus of Alameda County, on the board of the National Women’s Political Caucus – ...
Read moreJennifer Pae is the Northern California Chair of the CDP Asian Pacific Islander Caucus and Commissioner of the Oakland Community Policing Advisory Board. She also serves as Vice President of the APA Democratic Caucus of Alameda County, on the board of the National Women’s Political Caucus – Alameda North, and was recognized by her colleagues, the East Bay Young Democrats, with the first “Kick-Ass Youth Advocate Award.”
Jennifer is a strong advocate on behalf of her community because of her experiences in a working class family, raised by a single immigrant mother. Jennifer worked her way through college at UC San Diego where she led campaigns to expand access to higher education and improving campus safety policies by organizing events to prevent violence against women.
After college she was elected to serve as the President of the United States Student Association, representing over 2.5 million college students before Congress, the White House, the Department of Education, and civil rights coalitions, all while managing a $1 million budget and eleven staff.
In 2008, Jennifer volunteered for Senator Obama’s Presidential campaign. Her efforts won her a seat as a California’s only Korean-American DNC delegate, as well as the youngest Korean-American delegate at the DNC Convention.