She has been passionate about immigration all her life, and has dedicated all of her professional and volunteer efforts to this field. She's been helping foreign nationals since 1997, practicing business immigration law since 2001 with prominent law firms. Christy was recently selected for inclusion in the International Who's Who of Corporate Immigration Lawyers 2008 and the Who’s Who Legal: California 2009. She is also certified by the Employee Relocation Council (ERC) as a Global Mobility Specialist (GMS). She graduated from the University of California Berkeley and the University of California, Hastings College of the Law in San Francisco. She is a member of the American Immigration Lawyers Association and the Asian American Bar Association of the Greater Bay Area, and is fluent in Vietnamese.