Peejay is the Community Advocate for Asian Prisoner Support Committee and a former juvenile lifer. He was incarcerated at the age of fifteen and served 20 years in prison. Peejay’s work includes serving as APSC organizational representative in meetings, coalition spaces, lobby visits, and events related to reentry, in-prison programs, and anti-deportation defenses. Peejay also conducts workshops around APSC programs and missions to youth, students, and community organizations.

Chanthon Bun is a 1.5 generation Khmer community member and a model of how we can transform the community by transforming ourselves. He was incarcerated for 23 years and is now a Reentry Coordinator at APSC. He is passionate about immigration work, supporting formerly incarcerated people in their reentry journeys, and freeing his community from ICE. A father of 3 boys, he loves drawing and fishing in his spare time.

Nirvana supports APSC’s prison in-reach program, corresponding with and providing resources to incarcerated community members across California. She brings to APSC her experience in grassroots organizing, non-profit administration, and social change philanthropy. As a systems-impacted person, Nirvana is grateful for APSC's work keeping families together and communities thriving.

Mac Hoang is an APSC Reentry Manager. Mac comes from socially toxic environments that exposed him to life-altering trauma. Mac has lived experience, intersectionality and interimbrication of disability, addictions, foster care, and carcerality more broadly. Mac has been intertwined with systems since he was a young child—most recently, Mac was released from prison in 2014 where he began to rebuild his life. Mac graduated with honors from the Sociology Department at UC Berkeley in 2020. Because of his past experiences, Mac life's calling is in being of service to the community.

Nghiep “Ke” Lam is the Program and Facility Manager for Asian Prisoner Support Committee and a former juvenile lifer. He was incarcerated at the age of seventeen and served 23 years. He assists formerly incarcerated, i.e. API and "Stranded Deportees" with accessing resources (ID, Work Permit, Mentorship, etc.) in their transition back into society. He is also the Facility Manager to oversee the maintenance of the office. He is one of the Co-founder of the ROOTS program inside San Quentin State Prison. One of his passions is fixing bicycles and donating them to our system's impacted communities.

John Lam is a full-time staff member at APSC as a program coordinator and attends UC Berkeley majoring in political science. John’s involvement with APSC began nearly a decade ago when he was a participant in the ROOTs program. Shortly after he was selected as an inaugural APSC intern working on publishing APSC’s second anthology entitled: ARRIVING: Freedom Writings of Asian and Pacific Islanders.

Ana is a first generation UCLA college graduate. She started getting involved in her community as a freshman in high school, and it drove her to continue advocating for communities that need it most. While growing up was rough having to watch her parents struggle, she used that struggle to fuel her passions and show the world what a girl from East Oakland can accomplish even with the odds against her. Her work includes supporting the ROOTS 2 Reentry team’s administrative needs with contracts and assisting the team as it develops future operations and curriculum.

Maria was the first female Reentry Intern in 2020. Today, she serves as the Reentry Consultant for APSC. Her work consists of providing reentry support to the API community and formerly incarcerated folks coming home from state prison, jails, and detention centers. She is also the co-founder of APSC’s Community And Re-Entry Empowerment (CARE), a monthly support group for women in California which started in 2022.

Hien’s primary areas of work includes supporting APSC's in-prison programming through Ethnic Studies and Asian American Studies based curriculum, anti-deportation campaigns and strategies, and general correspondence with incarcerated and detained community members. Before becoming a staff member, Hien joined APSC as a volunteer in 2017 through the ROOTS (Restoring Our True Original Selves) program at San Quentin, supported APSC's fundraising efforts, and organized letter writing events.

Ny Nourn is a feminist organizer and strategist who works at the intersection of criminalization, immigration, and gender based violence. Ny’s advocacy began while serving a Life Without the Possibility of Parole (LWOP) sentence. Connecting her experience as a Cambodian refugee and domestic violence survivor with the stories of others in prison has inspired Ny to advocate for and build leadership of incarcerated survivors. After 16 years of incarceration, Ny was granted parole, but was transferred to immigration detention for deportation proceedings. After months of community mobilization, Ny walked out of detention in 2017.

A vision of a world without borders and cages inspires Ny to work each day building collective people power.

Anoop has spent the past two decades representing and working with people in jails, prisons, and detention centers facing deportation. At APSC, Anoop works on advocacy and providing direct legal services to bring people home, end deportations, and build community power.

Nate has been involved with APSC since 2014: first as a volunteer with ROOTS, then core member, and now Co-Director. He brings over six years of experience working with formerly incarcerated, incarcerated, ICE detained individuals, and impacted families. He’s excited to continue the work of APSC in bringing people home and reuniting families.

Berm keeps his formerly incarcerated and/or deported loved ones in his heart as the Advocacy Program Manager at APSC. First introduced to this work in 2016 while attending a workshop hosted by Asian Law Caucus and APSC, Berm soon began volunteering with organizations combating issues across the immigration-to-deportation pipeline. Now as a full-time staff member, he works closely with our community inside prison, strengthens our coalitions, develops freedom campaign strategies, and supports leadership development across our network. While away from organizing, Berm is serving the East Bay Area as a Barber with 13+ years of experience, or working on his health and fitness.