Le Tim Ly has a demonstrated commitment to environmental justice and an impressive history in program development, organization development, community organizing and leadership development. As the youth organizing program coordinator at Youth United for Community Action in East Palo Alto, Le supported a staff of three to design and implement successful youth membership organization integrating political education, leadership development and media creation to tackle major three campaigns in the community including efforts to shut down a hazardous waste facility, fight gentrifying development proposals and secure affordable housing for the predominantly low-income immigrant community in East Palo Alto. His additional experiences include working as a union representative at Service Employees International Union Local 362 in Orlando, Florida; leading a successful campaign to stop Stanford Hospital's practice of incinerating its carcinogenic medical waste in West Oakland and build a low-impact on-site autoclaving facility; and TA-ing courses on Community Organizing and Asian American Issues in the Urban Studies Department at Stanford University. In 2003, Le co-founded Liberation Ink, a worker cooperative that designs and produces social justice t-shirts whose profits support grassroots social justice organizations in the Bay Area. He currently on the boards of the Bay Area Immigrant Rights Coalition (BAIRC) and Youth United for Community Action (YUCA); he is currently Program Coordinator at the Partnership for Immigrant Leadership and Action(PILA) and a Lead Organizer at the Chinese Progressive Association (CPA).
