Lily has helped the organization expand its geographic reach and develop educators, parents, and students into movement leaders. 

In the summers of 2010 and 2011, Huang led two-week vigils in front of the MA State House against proposed anti-immigrant amendments. She also built a coalition of more than 40 community organizations for the DREAM Act. She also serves on the Massachusetts Education Justice Alliance (MEJA) steering committee. She has deep organizing experience in the cities of Boston, Framingham, New Bedford, Fall River, Taunton, Worcester, and Fitchburg. Huang speaks Spanish, Toisanese, Cantonese, Mandarin, and English.

Huang studied Political Geography at Vassar College and spent two years abroad at the US-Mexico borderland where she deepened her passion for migrant justice.