XuanMai attended Syracuse University to earn an undergraduate degree in Accounting and Finance. She went on to pursue a career at JPMorgan Chase & Co., and now Goldman Sachs. It was at Syracuse, however, that she met Alexandra, one of her closest friends, and whom you may know as the President of NWOCC. When Alexandra approached her with the proposal to join NWOCC as CFO/Treasurer, it was a no brainer. XuanMai knew she did not have to be in the same profession as her NWOCC peers to simply support womxn. What’s more powerful to her is womxn across professions supporting each other, offering their unique insights, and lifting each other up. That was her hope when she joined NWOCC – to leverage her knowledge in finance as a way to help NWOCC grow and become financially sustainable, so the collective can continue to offer its support and resources to womxn in the legal profession long term. Meeting the other NWOCC Board of Directors and hearing their experiences inspired XuanMai even more. She felt these womxn were deeply passionate about change in the legal profession, and how can you not be in awe of that. XuanMai believes NWOCC is the seed of a larger and greater change for the legal profession. When you give womxn, especially womxn of color in law, the opportunity to thrive and succeed, it can create so many changes in the world.