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She served as a Spiritual Advisor for Pacific Islander men’s support groups at Solano Prison and as a facilitator of Pacific Islander women’s groups at Chowchilla Women’s Prison. She also co-founded OLO, One Love Oceania, a Pacific Islander queer women’s art performance and activist group. She is currently a part of SogoreaTe Land Trust, an urban indigenous women-led land trust that returns indigenous land to indigenous people’s stewardship. Her writing appears in Whetu Moana: Contemporary Polynesian Poems in English; Homelands: Women’s Journeys across Race, Place, and Time; Yellow Medicine Review: A Journal of Indigenous Literature, Art, and Thought; Muliwai: Hawai’i Journal: and was featured on BBC Radio Scotland. She holds master’s degrees in English and International Development. She is working on a poetry book.

Tsering worked as a school-based counselor and a community mental health advocate for the last seven years after she moved to the United States from India. In India, she co-founded Tesi Environmental Awareness Movement (TEAM), a non-profit Tibetan environmental movement, to revive the ecological consciousness of the Tibetans in exile. Before starting TEAM she served as a Research Officer and the Head of the Environment and Development Desk of the Central Tibetan Administration for six years. Tsering received her primary and secondary educations from the Tibetan Children’s Village schools in Ladakh and Dharamsala in India. Right after high school, Tsering continued to earn bachelor’s degree in Biology from Berea College, Kentucky, USA and a Master’s in Environmental Pollution Control from the Pennsylvania State University, USA. Tsering recently earned another master’s in Counseling Psychology from John F. Kennedy University in California and she plans to become a licensed psychotherapist in the next couple of years.

Currently she is a student at Quest Nursing College for Licensed Practical Nurse program. She is based in California bay area. She immigrated to the from India in the year 2010. She is a single mother of two, a daughter and a son, both in high school and college respectively.