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.
Tuan (John) Doan
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
John Doan was born in Vietnam. At a very young age, he immigrated to the United States and lived in Orange County, California. After serving 26 years in correctional facilities, John is now a returning citizen and believes in the principles of compassion, empathy, kindness, and love. John has a big heart for kids (at-risk youth), and through John’s personal experience of living in poverty, neglect, physical and verbal abuse, being bullied as a child, and losing his father at a young age, those childhood traumas left him feeling ashamed, lonely, confused, humiliated, and low self-worth. He coped with his feelings and unmet needs by seeking out acceptance from anyone who was willing to show him love, attention, and a sense of belonging. Through self-help classes, education, and therapy, he was able to address his character defects and turn his life around. John has created podcast videos to discuss the harmful effects of drugs and gangs.
John enjoys writing and has published books on historical fiction and an anthology of prison poems and essays. He also loves reading and outdoor activities such as swimming, hiking, camping, and playing sports. John loves animals, especially dogs. He has been a dog trainer for over three years.
John serves as an executive director for Fear for Breakfast. Fear for Breakfast encourages everyone to wake up each morning and face their fear for breakfasts. John’s enthusiasm and passion for giving back have driven him to create classes such as victim sensitivity, personal development, drug and gang awareness, domestic violence and emotional literacy. His mission is to help people identify the root cause of their pain and struggles for the purpose of helping them cope and move forward in a healthy way.
Mai (Jenny) Le
DEPUTY DIRECTOR
Mai is the Deputy Director of Fear for Breakfast. She is also a wound care specialist physician assistant with a strong passion to make a difference for communities and patients all around the world.
Mai earned her Master of Science in Physician Assistant Studies from Concordia University of Wisconsin and completed her fellowship in emergency medicine at Riverside University Health System prior to her current role as a wound care specialist. Additionally, Mai was a certified drug and alcohol addiction counselor with more than 15 years of work experience in the mental health field serving various age groups ranging from youth to adults with co-occurring disorders. Helping others brings her immeasurable joy, happiness, and fulfillment. Mai would like to use her skills and dedicate her time to helping others by healing their wounds and to make the world a better place through healing.
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.
Tawny Loftis
SENIOR PRISON COORDINATOR
Tawny Loftis has always had a passion to help others in the community, as well as spread the message of the importance of mental health. Her purpose in helping others is to provide tools to cope with trauma, stress, and how to manage overall mental health. She has also provided previous service to dierent non- profit organizations that have provided service to the community, and students that struggle with mental health, as well as learning leadership skills by taking a position as Chapter President of the American Criminal Justice Association Tri-Omega, a volunteer for The Amazing Day Foundation, and Fundraising Coordinator of the Honor Society, Alpha Gamma Sigma at Rio Hondo College. She received an Associates Degree of Science in Administration of Justice, as well as an Associates Degree in Psychology.
Tawny is currently attending California University of Los Angeles working towards her Bachelors Degree in Psychology. She also interns as a Communications Assistance for Project Rebound, which serves those who have been systematically aected to help with education and resources. She has always wanted to help in the areas of mental health, addiction, trauma and re-entry. Certain experiences in her life have led her to want to do better for herself, as well as help others that may not have support or the resources to do better.
Raymond Sheppard
LEAD PROGRAM FACILITATOR
Raymond Sheppard was a lifer who served a total of 23 years in correctional facilities. He has been provided with a second opportunity to turn his life around and become a positive contributor to society, and he is now a member of the Fear For Breakfast team. His lifeʼs work consists of encouraging other people not to make the same poor decisions that he did. Today, he is a mature person, and he believes that those who are closest to the problem hold the solution. That is the reason he has faith in his team.
Raymondʼs message to the people of the globe is that we have lived, we have learned, and we are now taking the bad things that have happened to us and turning them into something good. We want to make a dierence in peopleʼs lives. Change is conceivable, as demonstrated by our very existence.
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 ten 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.