As the Vice President of Health Equity at Tangelo, one of the biggest food-is-medicine organizations in California, Dr Yen Ang (DrPH, MS, MPH, RD, FAND) leads the revolution of healthy and culturally appropriate food access for the Medicaid population across California. Her professional life in the past 15 years has been marked by advancing health equity, racial inclusion and diversity.

Some of her notable achievements includes her success in leading the first and only city in San Bernardino County to adopt the Healthy-by-Default Kids Beverage resolution in 2018 ahead of the California state law, protecting the health of thousands of children in the city from soda drinks.

She founded the award-winning Food Rescue Anti-Hunger Coalition which has facilitated numerous cross-sector solutions for food insecure families across San Bernardino County during COVID.
Her tireless work to create a hunger free world during the pandemic was awarded the “Woman-of-the-Year 2021” by the California state Assembly Majority leader Eloise Reyes. She was the recipient of multiple awards given by the APHA (American Public Health Association) as well as the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetic--the America official registration body for all registered dietitians: Hunger and Environmental Nutrition Excellence award in 2022; Outstanding Public Health Nutrition Leader 2023; and Mary Egan Public Health Nutrition Award 2023. Her public health innovation earned her repeated nods with the NACO (National Association of Counties) achievement Awards in 2019, 2020 and 2020.

In the past 2 decades, Dr Yen authored and published well over 50 original papers that center around translational research projects in food-is-medicine and health promotion.

Currently Yen is leading the national advocacy effort to change the nation most influential nutrition policy the Dietary of Guidelines for Americans (DGA) to be more culturally inclusive and diverse.