Raymond Leung graduated from the University of California, Berkeley on May 2010 with Bachelor of Arts Degrees in Psychology and Peace and Conflict Studies. Leung unknowingly began walking a path toward peacebuilding at a young age. While growing up poor and unhappy in an apartment building owned by the Chinatown Community Development Center (CCDC) in San Francisco, his mother encouraged him to assist his neighbors, who were mostly immigrant families and elderly individuals. Through these personal volunteer experiences, Leung learned that everyone had been on the same boat and his situation was not as worse as he had always thought it had been.

Upon entering college, he developed a passion for community development work through further volunteer experiences with CCDC. One day at an annual neighborhood clean-up in Portsmouth Square, a park in Chinatown, he began to wonder why the people at the clean-up were mostly Chinese-Americans, leaving him to eventually ponder: wouldn’t it be nice to see people of different races, cultures and neighborhoods clean up each other’s neighborhoods together?

Then finally, the idea for the Neighborhoods Vision Project, then just a dream, sparked when Leung participated as a movie extra in a Spike Lee movie called, "Sucker Free City," which was filmed in San Francisco. The movie followed and weaved the fictional stories and conflicts of gang members of different ethnic SF neighborhoods. Again, this experience left him wondering, as many experiences had done, if people could come together to fight in conflicts, wouldn’t it be nice to see people from different neighborhoods come together in peace? These experiences eventually led to the pursuit and establishment of the "Neighborhoods Crossroads" student organization at San Francisco State University, and then to the "Neighborhood Vision Project" at the University of California, Berkeley. Since August 2003, he has kept the project and organization running and evolving...

President, Raymond Leung, Founder
Secretary, Joyce Lum, San Francisco High School Youth, 12th Grader
Treasurer, Larisa Troche, The Larisa Group


VOLUNTEER ADVISORS
Fall 2011-Present
Betsy Avila
Claudia Albano, Oakland Neighborhood Services/Social Welfare Lecturer, UC Berkeley
Dave Douglas, Social Planet
Kathy Emery, Lecturer, San Francisco State University
Edward Hom, San Francisco Resident
Rhoda Johnson, San Francisco Resident
Jason Leung, Chinatown Resident
Tony Li, Chinatown Resident
Edward R. Taylor, Attorney at Law, Incorporation Lawyer
Iris Tseng, Treasure Island Resident
Timothy Won, Sunset Resident
SCORE, Small Business Administration
Small Business Assistance Center, San Francisco City Hall

Fall 2009-Summer 2011
Nayad Abrahamian, Department of Children, Youth and their Families
Claudia Albano, Lecturer, Social Welfare Department at the University of California, Berkeley
Kevin Blackwell, Community Organizer, Visitacion Valley Community Center
Kathy Emery, Lecturer, San Francisco State University
Norman Fong, Deputy Director, Chinatown Community Development Center
Nancy Merritt, Northern California Coordinator, Peace Alliance
Edith Ng, Lecturer, Peace and Conflict Studies, University of California, Berkeley
Lorrie Norby, Peace Alliance
Adonis Torres, Retired Teacher, San Francisco Unified School District
Hubert Yee, Community Activist, Visitacion Valley Resident
Eddy Zheng, Program Manager, Community Youth Center

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