Immigrant leadership strategy

Build power from lived experience.

Story to Power Consulting helps organizations build immigrant leadership programs, coalitions, and campaigns that create real change.

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Leadership program designCoalition strategyStorytelling workshopPublic speaking
What we do

Focused support for lasting work.

Not one more report on a shelf. We build the structures, relationships, and confidence people need to lead.

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Leadership and capacity building

Design youth leadership programs, training series, mentorship models, partnership systems, and evaluation plans that strengthen people and organizations.

02

Coalition strategy

Bring partners into alignment around a shared goal, clarify roles, and create a practical roadmap for the work ahead.

03

Storytelling workshops

Help directly impacted leaders shape and share stories with clarity, confidence, and purpose.

04

Public speaking

Deliver keynotes, panels, and facilitated conversations that move people from awareness to action.

How we work

A practical, people-first process.

Every engagement begins with the people closest to the challenge and ends with a plan your team can actually use.

01 / Listen
Start with lived knowledge.

We surface what people already know, what is missing, and where power sits.

02 / Build
Make a clear plan.

We translate insight into a shared strategy, program model, or campaign roadmap.

03 / Move
Put it into practice.

We leave teams with usable tools, stronger relationships, and next steps.

Why this work

Experience that connects the dots.

Ju Hong brings more than 15 years of work across immigrant rights, higher education, labor, government, and community organizing.

His work has included building national fellowship programs, leading public policy campaigns, securing institutional investment, and creating spaces where immigrant youth and directly impacted leaders can shape the decisions that affect their lives.

About Ju

A strategist, facilitator, and storyteller rooted in immigrant justice.

Ju Hong (he/him/his) is the Director of the UCLA Dream Resource Center, a UCLA Labor Center program that empowers immigrant youth and allies to lead social justice movements. A 2011 Dream Summer fellow, he brings more than a decade of experience in immigrant-rights organizing, policy advocacy, and leadership development.

Ju has organized communities, shared his immigrant story at conferences and universities, and contributed to national conversations on immigration. He previously served as a Governmental Program Analyst at the California Department of Social Services, overseeing a $45 million immigration-services budget that supported more than 100 community organizations statewide.

His approach brings together the practical discipline of program development with the urgency and imagination of movement building.

Let’s build something that lasts

Ready to build a durable program, campaign, workshop, or public conversation?

Interested in working together? Get in touch to discuss a project, workshop, speaking engagement, or collaboration.

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