PaKou Her is Principal of Tseng Development Group, a consulting firm that provides lectures, trainings, skills workshops, organizational development, transformational leadership coaching, and grassroots strategy development designed to build racial justice and create systems change.

PaKou holds over 25 years of anti-racism organizing experience, a decade of which was as Director of the national racial justice training program at Crossroads Antiracism Organizing and Training. She’s also held leadership positions at 18MillionRising.org, MoveOn.org, UltraViolet, and ParentsTogether.

Born and raised in the Midwest, PaKou takes great pride in representing AAPIs living in the nation’s midsection and believes there are invaluable stories to be told by People of Color living in the most rural areas of the United States. She lives in KCMO with her spouse and two children.