Cathy Lam

Cathy is currently the Treasurer of PIVOT and is co-chair of the Finance/Fundraising Committee. Originally from from Southern California and currently resides in Hilo, Hawaii.

She has a long history of work with the Vietnamese American communities, including leadership positions with Vietnamese American Non-Governmental Organization Network (VANGO Network) and Viet Rainbow of Orange County (VROC). She has been a parent advisor for VROC since its inception in 2013 in response to the discrimination faced by LGBTQ+ people during the Lunar Tet Parade.

Cathy Lam founded Our1World that works with youth and community development in Vietnam on leadership in environmental issues, adolescent and reproductive health. She has development work in Habitat Restoration in Central Vietnam Phong Dien with native Mellaleuca Cajeputi tea tree and in Hue with Forest Restoration of endangered plants.

She was formerly a board member at Newport Bay Conservancy. Along with her husband Mike Kane, they are both key stakeholders/co-founders of Electrical Vehicle movement (now Plug In America) in the early 2000's, working with CA Air Quality Management Board and the automobile industry to manufacture zero emission vehicles. She has 2 wonderful loving LGBT children . She holds a Bachelor degree in Electrical Engineering from UC Irvine. She loves to dance for exercise, to hike, swim and garden in her spare time.