“When you get to a place where you understand that love and belonging, your worthiness,
is a birthright and not something you need to earn, anything is possible.”
– Brene Brown
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WELCOME!

You Belong Here guides businesses, nonprofits and civic organizations with mindful, experiential and creative meeting and retreat design and facilitation. 

​​We also work with progressive businesses, nonprofits and civic organizations who seek to recruit immigrant leaders for their boards, workforce and volunteer pipelines.

You may be interested in our nonprofit, You Belong Here Foundation, if you are an immigrant woman or a champion of them. Click here.

​Who belongs here ...
Businesses, Nonprofits and Civic Organizations
  • Committed to a diverse and inclusive board but unsure how or where to recruit qualified immigrants and leaders of color
  • Seeking facilitation and community engagement consultation
  • Striving to increase new immigrant donors, employees and stakeholders
  • Serving clients who are immigrants and their U.S.-born children and grandchildren
​​You have found a new partner and resource - You Belong Here.
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​"Porcia is a phenomenal convener, connector and group leader. She has a marvelous ability to create great relationships, listen deeply, and inspire others to be their best selves. Her many gifts and talents are always at the service of the greater good and she motivates leaders to do the same for their organizations - big and small."​
- Suzanne Buckley, Director, Mercy Center Burlingame
My Story 

After serving as a nonprofit executive and founder, I am now an adviser to nonprofits and businesses, a speaker and a facilitator of convenings focused on the topics of nonprofit, professional reinventions, immigrant, and mindfulness. I founded "You Belong Here" to support people who have experienced the challenges of being "the others" in this country.

I immigrated to the U.S. from Taiwan with my parents as a teenager. Although I had tasted success and fame as a child actor in my native country, upon my arrival I instantly became an outsider in my new home. It was not my choice to begin a new life in a foreign country, learn a new language, make new friends, and adapt to a completely different culture, but I wholeheartedly embraced the American dream - which is the goal of "You Belong Here" - to help you find your new American dreams and make a difference where you live, work and play. (Read my full here.)

​What have you done to belong to a community? 
Jumping to join "YOU BELONG HERE" is a lot easier than bungee. ​
​I am passionate about making a positive difference in my community, even by doing something slightly outrageous. Check out my bungee jump for a local nonprofit, Thrive, from 150 feet (think of a 10-story building.) ​​
You are probably one of many accomplished 
immigrants contributing to this country.
You Belong Here.
ACCOMPLISHED IMMIGRANTS
IN AMERICA (Just a few)

Madeleine Albright
Diplomat, 1st female Secretary of State, U.N. Ambassador
CZECHOSLOVAKIA
Click here to read Madeleine's story

Liz Balmaseda
CUBA

Tammy Duckworth
THAILAND

Pramila Jayapal
INDIA

Indra Nooyi
INDIA

Salma Hayek
MEXICO
 
and some of the men….

Stokely Carmichael
Trinidad-Tobago

Deepak Chopra
INDIA

Albert Einstein 
Germany

Henry Kissinger
Germany

Ieoh Ming (I.M.) Pei
China
IMMIGRANTS IN
CORPORATE AMERICA
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