59: Jinghuan Liu Tervalon: OWN YOUR OWN STORY; Otherness as a Superpower; the Journey of Becoming

Jinghuan Liu Tervalon (she/her) is a mother runner based in the Los Angeles area. She is a partner, an athlete, an advocate and a leader. Her love of running started after she became a mother in 2007; she started training with the Fortius Altius Citius Training (FACT) group after her second child was born in 2016. She has completed 15 marathons and you can see her running on the road, trail and track in the Pasadena/Altadena area. She is a firm believer that anyone can be a runner, no matter your size, ability, background, or history. She works in consumer insights and marketing in the consumer packaged goods industry. She is also a freelance writer for Runner's World, Women's Running magazine and Trail Runner Magazine. Her writing covers the range of profile stories, performance-based topics and book reviews. Jinghuan serves on the board of Bras for Girls, a 501c organization that gives bras to girls to help them thrive in sports. She is also part of an athlete advocates group with Rising Hearts, founded by Jordan Marie Whetstone. She recently spoke at TRE (The Running Event) on building kinship in the running community. Jinghuan is also on the advisory board of the Running Industry Diversity Coalition. She was a semifinalist for the Brooks Runfulness Project and is a Oiselle Volée member who won $25,000 and hopes to bring visibility to the AAPI community through her book that has not yet been published (PUBLISHERS NEED THIS BOOK). While she's not working, running or writing, you can find her spending time with her teenage son, her daughter, husband and huskie. Jinghuan is on a racial awakening journey, doing anti-racist work in both the corporate world and the running community, while busting the model minority myth. She is a leader, taking up space, using her voice and impacting the world for good. 

We talk about parenting and the importance of leaving ego at the door and being curious. She wants to teach her kids to love, both others and themselves. Jinghuan shares about her anti-racist work in the corporate world, uplifting women of color, especially in leadership positions. She writes about stories that are not discovered and that are often discarded. Jinghuan has taken more of an interest in how we conduct scientific studies. She wants to go deeper and see how these studies are lacking good study samples related to female bodies and more specifically how different races go through menopause differently. This is information that is LACKING and Jinghuan is learning into the research and knowledge, especially for women of color. She is hoping to have her book published; it profiles BIPOC runners making a big impact on running. LET'S GET THIS PUBLISHED ASAP!!!! Jinghuan shares about the importance of stewarding your own story and challenges everyone to be able to tell their own story.

Jinghuan lives on Tongva land.

Book recommendation:
Up to Speed by Christine Yu
Hunger by Roxanne Gay
Border Vista by Anni Liu

Find Jinghuan on IG @sandychannel and click on her LinkTree for access to her important articles and stories.

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