Bích Ngọc Cao is a digital marketing and communications executive whose career spans media organizations, tech startups, the music industry, government, and nonprofits.
She serves as senior adviser, communications, in the Superintendent's office of Los Angeles Unified. She has enjoyed an unconventional path that includes stints at organizations and companies such as Define American, (RED), the Los Angeles Times, Harvest Records, Warner Bros. Records, and MySpace. A lifelong Angeleno, she is currently president of the Board of Library Commissioners for the city of Los Angeles and also serves on the board of the investigative journalism organization Mother Jones.
As a teenager, Bích Ngọc was a lead plaintiff in the education equity lawsuit Williams v California. The landmark class-action case settled for $1 billion for public schools and resulted in legislation that required the state to provide basic necessities for students such as books, safe classrooms, and qualified teachers. | madcao.com | @madcao