Jin-Ya Huang

Jin-Ya Huang is a social impact, community development, and creative innovator with a focus on the intersection of human-centered design, equity, diversity and inclusion. She is the founder of Break Bread, Break Borders (BBBB),  catering with a cause social enterprise empowering refugee women economically through the storytelling of cooking, food, and culture. She is an expert in  sustainable global supply chain, and has over 16 years of extensive background in marketing for the Fossil Group, JCPenney, and Neiman Marcus. Jin-Ya is an acclaimed interdisciplinary artist who has shown in  galleries in Dallas, Miami and New York. Her work examines her Asian identity and diasporic immigrant experience. She has produced innovative and interactive experience projects with museums in the DFW Metroplex. Her focus is on social justice, food security and human rights issues in K-12 and higher education programs. Jin-Ya is an accomplished, published writer and public speaker. Her work has been featured at the Bush Institute, Dallas Festival of Books and Ideas, Vignette Art Fair, Amon Carter Art Museum, Crow Museum of Asian Art, Texas Lyceum, Toyota of North America TAASiA Corporate ERGs and more. With an eye towards new approaches to entrepreneurship, empowering women and improving race relations, she serves on the Advisory board of the LiftFund, The OpEd Project, Creative3 Center at Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas Independent School Social and Racial History Board and Metropolitan Arts Media. Jin-Ya is highly regarded for her ability to bring communities and people of all backgrounds together. Her reputation as a community builder won her an appointment as a social entrepreneur at SMU Hunt Institute Economic Inclusion Consortium and City of Dallas Task Force of The WCIA (Welcoming Communities of Immigrant Affairs). She is a proud member of the Orchid Giving Circle, a fund of The Texas Women’s Foundation, also she is a current fellow of the Presidential Leadership Scholars Program.