Vick Van Chung

Mx. Vick Chung was elected to the Board of Trustees in 2022. Vick previously served as the student-body-elected trustee from 2020-2021, and as the delegate of CCSF at the General Assembly of the Student Senate for California Community Colleges in 2021. Vick uses “they, them, their” pronouns, and they are the first, openly non-binary, gender-queer person to hold an elected office in the history of San Francisco. Vick was born and raised in San Francisco, is a child of Hakka-Chinese, Vietnamese refugees, and is a survivor of child incestuous abuse.

As a beneficiary of San Francisco’s K-14 public schools, public assistance programs and nonprofits (such as GLIDE) that assisted and empowered low-income families, Vick sought out and graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Neurobiology, Physiology and Behavior from UC Davis in the hopes of paying-it-forward by becoming a health care provider to low-income, marginalized, communities of color. However, after working to advance community health through serving in diverse capacities over the last decade–as a research lab aide and clinical laboratory technician, health care patient interpreter and advocate, aide to those filing taxes and applying for citizenship, advocate for federal legislation and funding for international aid–Vick gradually arrived as an advocate for community college education after spending the latter four years attending, working at, and advocating for City College of San Francisco. Vick is a proud former student worker of Project SURVIVE, Project SHINE, and STAR Center.

Vick is a life-long learner. They maintain their health by taking language and dance classes through the FREEcity program. They are pursuing further education in ethnic studies, social justice studies, and the law. Vick first began volunteering at the Fort Mason Plant Nursery at the age of 11, and participating in community service continues to be of vital importance in their life.