Young Shin

Young Shin
Occupation	Activist, university teacher

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.^{[1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9]} She advocated for awareness around occupational health and an end to language discrimination for limited English speakers.^[9][10] Shin also works as a lecturer at University of California, Berkeley and has published in the academic journal Signs.^[11][12]

Shin immigrated to the United States from Korea.^[13] In 1983, Shin co-founded AIWA.^[13] In 1991, Shin was among 301 delegates who convened in Washington, D.C. for the First National People of Color Environmental Summit.^{[14][5][15][7]} The work of Shin and Pam Tau Lee, co-founder of the Asian Pacific Environmental Network, at the 1991 summit ensured that occupational health issues were included in the draft of "Principles of Environmental Justice" created during the summit.^[15][16] 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.^[15] Additionally, both Lee and Shin are reported to have infused English classes with political education to enable immigrant women to better communicate workplace and environmental hazards.^[16]

In 2002, Shin was published in a report by Women's Environment & Development Organizations titled "a small world after all: Women Assess The State of the Environment In the U.S. and Beyond."^[17]

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