Fiona Lu (she/her) is a rising fourth-year undergraduate at UCLA majoring in Public Affairs, Labor Studies, and Asian American Studies, with a minor in Community Engagement and Social Change.  

She is the Co-Founder and Co-Executive Director of What We All Deserve (WWAD), a youth-led anti-poverty policy advocacy organization that works to involve young people in state policymaking for economic justice. Since their founding, she has co-led the team to introduce a total of seven pieces of student-written state bills in California and Texas advancing economic justice.  

Professionally, she has interned for the Center for Law and Social Policy (CLASP) on Capitol Hill, and for the Crimsonbridge Foundation, where she had the opportunity to bridge her passions for policymaking, public service, social impact, and nonprofit management. At UCLA, she served in the student government's External Vice President's office.  

She is currently a Keck Humanistic Inquiry Undergraduate Research Fellow, conducting research on the relationship between immigrant communities and public benefits policies; an Astin Community-Engaged Scholar, researching youth civic engagement in Los Angeles; and an Undergraduate Student-Initiated Education Facilitator, facilitating UCLA's first course on youth civic engagement. In the future, she hopes to pursue a service and social impact career to advance health equity, economic mobility, and racial justice.