Loan K. Le (she/her), Ph.D, is the Associate Director & Director of Research for AA CARES and Assistant Professor of Asian American Studies at San Francisco State University where her work focuses on Asian American Studies, the Vietnamese American experience, government and public policy. Dr. Le is a first-generation refugee and is passionate about social justice, equal protection and democracy. She serves the community in her role as President and CEO of the Institute for Good Government and Inclusion (IGGI, a 501(c)(3) devoted to research and education on controversial issues in American public policy and democratic inclusion). In 2010, Dr. Le received her Ph.D in Political Science from the University of California, Berkeley where she served as a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow; prior, she served as a Coro Foundation Fellow in Public Affairs and as a Rotary Foundation Ambassadorial Scholar.