I was born and raised in Hong Kong, where its people seek autonomy and freedom from colonialism and authoritarianism. I was politicalised in a relatively young age, engaged in student activism and non-violent civil disobedient movement, and was one of the many organisers in the 2014 Umbrella Movement. Nurtured by grassroot organising and street mobilisation, I spent most of my time in the past eight years coordinating international solidarity to hold companies and the government accountable to rights violations. 

Maintaining the balance between a disruptive / creative grassroot movement and sustaining a long term organisation that supports the movement is never easy. In fact, many people believe existing power structures have captured movement organisations and suffocate the energy of grassroot movements. 

I am drawn to the community in search of companions who are willing to swim upstream, who want to disrupt existing power structures that enable senseless destruction and oppression. I know our limits. We do not have coercive power or violence on our side, but we do have something powerful: practitioners, experts, thinkers and survivors who have an insight about why the system doesn’t work well for ordinary people; who have the ability to shape discourses, organise and mobilise ordinary people around a better alternative. 

What we are doing in Reimagine, is to investigate what went wrong with the system, use our discursive power to imagine a new path, and build the necessary power to disrupt the status quo.