Tiffany Eng is a community organizer and policy advocate from Oakland, CA who has worked alongside youth and families across California for over twenty years. As CEJA’s Land Use Director who provides strategic leadership to the alliance’s Green Zones Initiative, Tiffany partners with CEJA organizations who are engaging in groundbreaking work to transform polluted and divested neighborhoods into healthy and vibrant communities. In addition to serving as an Interim Co-Director and a Program Director from 2021-2023, Tiffany first began her work with the alliance as CEJA’s Green Zones Program Manager in 2016.
Prior to her time at CEJA, Tiffany was a youth organizer, a policy director, and a Co-Director at AYPAL: Building API Community Power, where she organized alongside Asian American and Pacific Islander youth to win campaigns for education justice and racial justice in Oakland and beyond. She has also worked with the Asian Pacific Environmental Network, PolicyLink, Community Youth Center – San Francisco, and Community Bridges Beacon.
Tiffany earned a master’s degree in City and Regional Planning from the UC Berkeley, and holds dual degrees in Art and Asian American Studies from UCLA. In her spare time, you can find Tiffany backpacking through the sierras, reviving her drawing and photography practices, or exploring the world with her daughter.