Angel Zhong

Guiying (Angel) Zhong (she/they) is a youth mental health advocate and emerging scholar-activist. She is passionate about decolonizing trauma, building capacity for culturally responsive research and care, and advancing mental health equity through epistemic justice. They have served as a Climate Action Fellow for White Pony Express, a food recovery organization committed to ending food insecurity in Contra Costa County; a Civic Action Fellow for Little Manila Rising, a South Stockton-based non-profit committed to bringing multi-faceted equity and holistic community wellness to the region; and an inaugural Next Gen youth advisor for the National Alliance on Mental Health (NAMI).