01/20/2026
👋Farewell dear Yuan… & welcome beloved Tina! 💟
This past November, we celebrated the beautiful transition between Lavender Phoenix’s Executive Directors! After a beautiful 8 years in LavNix, we said goodbye to Yuan & said a BIG hello to our beloved new ED, Tina! 🎉
Yuan first joined Lavender Phoenix as a Summer Organizer in 2018, then went on to serve as a Staff organizer until 2021 when she officially became the org’s Executive Director. During Yuan’s staff tenure, she touched every part of our work from our trans justice work, our communications committee, strategizing in Core & campaigns work. She led the organization to make difficult and strategic decisions, sunsetting committees to leading new ones, that allowed the organization to grow and transform in staff capacity, member leadership and capacity as a liberatory fighting organization! 🌱
Now, we fully welcome Tina to our Staff team as our newest Executive Director! Tina comes to Lavender Phoenix with a wealth of experience from her years organizing in the SF Bay as well as with our close friends at GABRIELA ! (Be on the look out for a beautiful letter from Tina later this month on her reflections entering this role. 👀)
Through all of 2025 – particularly our Staff Retreat, Core Retreat, our End of Year Celebration – both of these organizers have worked so hard to make this transition as easeful as possible for our org and community. Yuan & Tina: both of you are so cherished, & we look forward to seeing your continued organizing in the coming years, whether in Lavender Phoenix or elsewhere in our great movement ecosystem!
Yuan once beautifully said: “As we move forward, we know that organizing as Lavender Phoenix will mean so much more than just the words we call ourselves. Lavender Phoenix means an everyday commitment to remembering our history. It means organizing with generations in mind, that every decision we make should reflect the relationships we want to see in our world … For us, Lavender Phoenix is a name. It is a prayer. And, it is a promise.”
🫡 Thank you both. We love you so much! ❤️🔥
