Young Hi Shin

Young Hi Shin is an environmental justice activist who co-founded and directed the Asian Immigrant Women Advocates (AIWA), which fought for workers’ rights in the San Francisco Bay Area. She advocated for awareness around occupational health and an end to language discrimination for limited English speakers. Shin also works as a lecturer at University of California, Berkeley and has published in the academic journal Signs.

Biography Shin immigrated to the United States from Korea. In 1983, Shin co-founded AIWA. This represented an important contribution to procedural justice and helped ensure that marginalized community members had a stake in environmental decisions that would impact their community.

In 2013, she was featured in the documentary Becoming Ourselves: How Immigrant Women Transformed Their World, which was directed by Gary Delgado.