About Vivian

Vivian Song is a current Seattle Public School parent, finance professional, previous school board director, and long-time advocate for children and immigrants.

Vivian was elected to the Seattle School Board in 2021, winning over 70 percent of the votes in a city-wide election. She served on the City of Seattle’s Families, Education, Preschool, and Promise Levy Oversight Committee. She was a PTA president at her children’s elementary school and was a member of the Superintendent’s Parent Advisory Council.

She has been volunteering with youth and immigrant communities for more than 25 years and is currently a board director at the Denise Louie Education Center, a Head Start provider, and Jewish Family Service, a refugee resettlement and human services agency. Vivian is a founding leader of Make Us Visible Washington, the authors of SB 5574, a bill to require the inclusion of Asian Americans, Native Hawaiian, Pacific Islanders in K-12 social studies curriculum. She is a champion for progressive taxes and is currently on the board of Children’s Alliance.

A daughter of immigrants, she started her education as an English as a Second Language student (Multilingual Learner). Her public elementary school teacher was the first to identify her hearing disability. Growing up in her family’s Chinese restaurant, she learned to value teamwork and customer service. As the first woman in her family to graduate from university, she knows the power of a quality, public education to transform lives.

She holds a BA in Economics from Harvard University and a MBA from Harvard Business School. Her professional career has been in private sector finance. She holds a certificate in Education Finance from Georgetown McCourt School of Public Policy and completed coursework in School Accounting from the Washington Association for School Business Officials.