Hyun-mi Kim, Director of Community Engagement and Public Policy, Puente de la Costa Sur
Hyun-mi Kim is the Director of Community Engagement and Public Policy at Puente. She joined Puente with over 15 years of experience working with low-income communities of color in the San Francisco Bay Area and the Pacific Northwest. Before joining Puente, Hyun-mi worked as a community organizer and an advocate for immigrant survivors of human trafficking and violence against women. More recently, Hyun-mi was an Equal Justice Works Fellow (2019-2021), the 2-year nationally recognized legal fellowship dedicated to public interest law. Hyun-mi is a lawyer with a Juris Doctor degree from Seattle University School of Law and a bachelor’s degree in history from UCLA.

Tori Truscheit, Training Director, Sacred Heart Community Service
Since her first campaign in 2004, when she worked on increasing the Florida minimum wage, Tori has organized urban gardeners, affordable housing residents, white people for racial justice, and previously unhoused Californians. She organized with Sacred Heart starting in 2015, then became organizing director at a statewide advocacy organization before returning to Sacred Heart in 2022. Currently, she directs the Sacred Heart Organizing Institute.

Lorena Melgarejo, Executive Director, Faith in Action Bay Area
Lorena Melgarejo has been the Executive Director of Faith in Action since 2017. With over 20 years of community organizing experience, Lorena started her career as a union organizer for Justice for Janitors. She later worked as a faith-based organizer for Faith in Action National. In 2005, she became the Lead Organizer for the San Francisco Organizing Project. Before she stepped into her Executive Director position with Faith in Action Bay Area, Lorena coordinated parish organizing and immigrant solidarity for Faith in Action and the San Francisco Catholic Archdiocese’s Office of Human Integrity. Lorena is a longtime resident of the Mission District in San Francisco.