Nika Soon-Shiong
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Michele B. Chan (mother)
University of Oxford (DPhil)
Nika Soon-Shiong | |
|---|---|
 Soon-Shiong in 2022 | |
| Public Safety Commissioner of West Hollywood | |
| In office September 13, 2021 – October 11, 2022 | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | February 26, 1993 |
| Parent(s) | Patrick Soon-Shiong (father) Michele B. Chan (mother) |
| Education | Stanford University (BA, MA) University of Oxford (DPhil) |
Nika Soon-Shiong (born February 26, 1993) is an American politician and activist who served as a Public Safety Commissioner of West Hollywood from 2021 to 2022. She is the founder and executive director of the Fund for Guaranteed Income and was also part of the Compton Pledge and Long Beach Pledge guaranteed income programs.[1][2] She is on the board of the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ).[3] Soon-Shiong is the publisher of Drop Site News.[4][5]
Soon-Shiong was born on February 26, 1993, to Patrick Soon-Shiong and Michele B. Chan; she has a brother.[6] She graduated from Marymount High School in 2011,[7] where she participated in Model United Nations.[8]
In 2015,[8] Soon-Shiong graduated Phi Beta Kappa[9] from Stanford University with a B.A. in international relations[8] and a minor in creative writing.[10] In 2016, she graduated with an M.A. in African studies from Stanford. She led a "photovoice" project on youth unemployment in Nyanga, Cape Town, and Gaborone.[8] She also interned for TeachAids,[8] and interned for two summers for the Los Angeles Times a few years before her father purchased the newspaper.[11]
In 2019, Soon-Shiong became a doctoral candidate at the University of Oxford.[12] In 2024, she graduated from Oxford with a D.Phil. in economics and industrial development.[4]
