Our Team
Tue Huynh
PRESIDENT/FOUNDER
Tue Huynh is a member of the Reentry Advisory Collaborative, a selective program that helps him build a leadership position in L.A. County. As a transformed person with a criminal background, he saw the unfavorable system needed to be reconstructed holistically. It’s important to maintain the proper balance so that everyone can have an equal opportunity to succeed in life. He offers suggestions and collaborates with team members to tackle the most difficult tasks that the community is facing. Their mission is to help the system-impacted population and reduce mass incarceration. Before joining the RHAC, Tue facilitated entrepreneurship training and earned an MBA certificate from Baylor University through an organization called Defy Ventures, a company that helps people with criminal histories have a second chance to become a C.E.O. of their new life. Tue is a member of API RISE, a support network that helps the community to understand the necessity of changes to an unfair justice system that involves immigration detentions and harsh environments.
Tue is also a college student at Villanova University. With his major in business of public social services, Tue believes that he can bring his dream to life one day to make this world a better place. His ultimate goal is to become a successful person, and that means having stable employment or business, having a beautiful family, and reaching out to others.
Sharon Han
PROGRAM DIRECTOR
Sharon is a life and executive coach with trainings in a psychology based coaching as well as start-up coaching for founders and executives. Prior to joining Fear For Breakfast, Sharon was recognized as one of the “Top Pro” life coaches on Thumbtack in 2020 & 2021, and in 2022, worked as a Business and Career Education Coach at Santiago Canyon College.
She is passionate about helping people transform their lives by understanding who they are, building a healthy sense of identity, and having a clear, purpose-driven vision for their life. She is the author of the Life Transformation Workbook which is currently being used to run weekly workshops inside California State Prison, Los Angeles County.
As the Program Director at Fear for Breakfast, her hope is to provide practical coaching tools and resources for people to identify how they can be a solution to a problem and be the change they want to see in the world.
Daisy (Ngan) Hong
TREASURER
Ngan Hong has dedicated time to working at Fear for Breakfast because she is passionate about empowering others to reuse, reduce, and recycle. Her hope is to keep the environment clean and see people do the right things. Recently, she was a part of the team that organized a workshop (Victim Impact), which brings many people together, encourages forgiveness, and helps people create love for one another. She also has a certificate for Leader Global Citizen, in which she was one of 10 students around the world visiting a land field in a village in Indonesia where she learned the importance of recycling and reusing. Currently, she has been spreading the message of sustainability by visiting several communities and handing out the mint that she planted inside reusable cups to raise awareness about the importance of reusing single-use plastic cups.
She is currently a junior at Cal State Los Angeles, where she studies business administration.
Ngan enjoys home-cooking, running, and hiking in her spare time. As a result, she wishes for a world in which more people are content and able to recognize their inherent relationship to the natural world.
Hector Valdivia
PROGRAM COORDINATOR/EXECUTIVE ASSISTANT
Hector was a lifer who served 21 years in correctional facilities, and was fortunate enough to be paroled on December 23, 2022, right before Christmas Eve. He is in his second year as a rehabilitation services major at Cal State Los Angeles, and also works full-time at a substance abuse inpatient residential facility.
He enjoys running, hiking, spending time with family and friends, and especially going out to eat! He values his relationship with God, his Family, and his relationships with others because no amount of money or material goods can compare to the enrichment and fulfillment love and loved ones bring to his life.
At Fear for Breakfast, he works with individuals who are traveling through a path he once traveled, and can empathize with people and understand their challenges. He’s enthusiastic about making a change in people’s lives.
Matthew Wade
WORKSHOP FACILITATOR
Matthew Wade, once sentenced to 50-to-life for first-degree murder at age 18, emerged from 26 years in California's correctional system as a beacon of transformation. Granted early parole in 2024 under SB 261, Matthew's journey is a testament to the power of education and self-improvement.
Inside prison walls, Matthew soared from a 5th-grade reading level to earning a GED and 10 AA degrees. He founded T.R.U.E. (Transformative Restoration of Unresolved Emotions), tackling conflict resolution and domestic abuse head-on. As a youth mentor and GED tutor, he lifted others, specializing in anger management and trauma support.
Now free, Matthew leads workshops at CSP-LAC for Fear for Breakfast. His story isn't just about personal redemption — it's about creating ripples of positive change that extend far beyond prison gates.
Michael Gawlik
WORKSHOP FACILITATOR
Michael (Mike) Gawlik served 26 years in prison for 2nd degree murder and petty theft. He was granted parole on his second board hearing. He paroled June 12, 2024 and has been thriving since. Michael suffered from a severe gambling addiction which was a key factor in his life crime. He spent over 15 years using the tools at his disposal to overcome his addiction. These tools included working with a clinical therapist and a variety of self-help resources.
When groups like Gamblers Anonymous were not available to him, he took the initiative to get the materials to start these groups on the yards on which he was housed.
Michael has facilitated groups for over 14 years while incarcerated, and currently facilitates with Fear for Breakfast. He is also in the process of editing and publishing his first self-help book titled Serving Life.