Elsa Mei Tung (she/her)
Elsa Tung
Elsa Mei Tung (she/her/hers) serves as the Land Use Program Manager for Long Beach Forward, where she oversees issues and partnerships related to healthy, equitable land use, including housing justice, environmental justice, and equitable community planning and development. She brings strategic research and policy advocacy talents to the multiple community-based collaboratives that Long Beach Forward supports, including the Housing Justice Coalition, Just Environment Long Beach, Cambodia Town Thrives, and the People’s Budget.
Elsa is a public policy professional with 12+ years of experience at all policy levels—from global to local, from government to nonprofit. Early in her career, she served for five years as Senior Legislative Assistant and Deputy Press Secretary in the Washington, DC office of Oregon Congressman David Wu. Most recently, she served as Policy and Research Manager at the Los Angeles Neighborhood Land Trust, where she oversaw park equity policy advocacy at the city, county, and state levels. Elsa earned her bachelor’s degree in politics from Mount Holyoke College and her master’s degree in international environmental policy from The Fletcher School at Tufts University.