Sharon Tang, MPH

Sharon Tang, MPH is relentlessly dedicated to whole-person community healing. She is the co-founder of Underground GRIT, spearheading non-profit re-entry, in-reach, and holistic mental health initiatives for youth and adults returning from prisons, jails, juvenile detention centers, and immigration detention facilities. She co-founded Underground Panthers collaborative partnership with Chapman University, paving an incarceration-to-college pipeline for formerly incarcerated youth and young adults. In addition, she was selected as a Young Person of Color (YPOC) Fellow for the National Institute for Criminal Justice Reform (NICJR) for extraordinary leadership in the fields of criminal justice reform, violence reduction, and community organizing. She is a first-generation college graduate and child of refugees from the Vietnam War and Cambodian genocide. She made it her personal mission to gain training that resolves the issues she was too young to solve for her family.