BriannaPang

Brianna Pang represents the California Zone on the State Farm Youth Advisory Board. 

Born and raised in Oakland, CA, Brianna discovered her passion for public service and social justice early on. As a high school student, she co-founded the Skyline High School chapter of the Students Against Destructive Decisions club, served as president of the Key Club, represented the student body as a delegate to the All City Council of the Oakland Unified School District, and served as a Cadet Lieutenant Colonel in the JROTC program.  She worked heavily in peer health education with Girls Inc of San Leandro, helping her peers with sexual health and other social teen issues.  In addition, she interned for the nonprofit Environmental Prevention in Communities, where she compiled a research report on liquor stores in Oakland for the City Attorney's office for the City Planning Commission.

Now a junior at Stanford University, Brianna is pursuing a B.A. degree with honors in Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity (focus in Public Service) with a minor in Political Science.  At Stanford, Brianna has developed academic interests in international human rights, law, and education policy to supplement her passion for public service.  She is also heavily involved in the Associated Students of Stanford University (student government), as a student body senator and chair of the Appropriations Committee managing over $2 million dollars in student funds.  In addition, Brianna has worked with several ethnic community groups, including the Black Student Union, the Stanford NAACP, and the Asian American Sib Program.

During the summer after her freshman year, Brianna served as an English teacher in rural villages in Croatia and Romania through the program Learning Enterprises and in China through the program Technology Education Connecting Cultures.  Coming back from her experiences teaching over 250 students abroad, she became interested in education equity and human rights issues.  Currently, she serves as Executive Director of Training and Recruiting with Learning Enterprises.  Through LE, she has developed a mini grants program to help volunteers make their service ideas a reality.

Finally, Brianna is also passionate about public interest law.  She has interned as a California JusticeCorps (an AmeriCorps program) member in the Superior Court of California, San Mateo County on issues of family law and domestic violence prevention, and currently works as the Stanford Campus Representative for the Superior Court of CA, Alameda County. She has also worked in the Pasadena Self-Help Center in Pasadena, CA on issues of family law and housing law, and in the workers rights clinics held by Neighborhood Legal Services of Los Angeles County in Pacoima and El Monte, CA.  This summer, she will be interning with the Legal Resources Centre in Johannesburg, South Africa on an education funding research project.

In her spare time, she mentors high schoolers in the college applications process through The Stanford Phoenix Scholars Project, works on the Alternative Spring Break trip she has planned for 12 Stanford students on the topic of civil rights and youth engagement in change, and researches for her honors thesis.  Brianna also enjoys yoga, cardio kickboxing, playing music, taking walks around campus during the early morning when no one else is awake, spending too much time in the dining hall talking to friends, reading books and trying new restaurants and reviewing them on Yelp.