Gloria is a third generation Chinese-American and Portland native. She attended Portland State University and graduated with majors in Finance, Marketing and Management.

Upon graduation, she moved to Yamagata, Japan for two years and participated in the Japan Exchange & Teaching Program. She is now a member of the Japan Exchange & Teaching Program's Alumni Association and has represented the Portland Chapter on the local and international levels.

Gloria took her first international business position in 1999 with PACCESS Global, a Portland based global supply chain management company. She worked on a team to qualify manufacturing vendors throughout Asia for NIKE footwear packaging production. Her most memorable business trip to China was when she was able to visit her Chinese ancestor's village in Kaiping, Guangdong.

In 2002, Gloria left PACCESS to become the Director of Business Communications for POP-Direct, a global packaging solutions company. At POP-Direct she developed accounts with P&G, Leatherman Tools, NIKE, Columbia Sportswear, Hewlett-Packard, VTECH Phones, Oregon Scientific and many other international consumer product companies. In the fall of 2005, Gloria won the Ladies Who Launch - Women's Business Idol Contest for her business plan to start a Chinese themed Bed & Breakfast that features Oregon's rich Chinese-American history. She is currently working on an oral history project to document the stories of Chinese-Oregonians.

In her free time, Gloria enjoys cooking, salsa dancing, sewing, traveling and planning her 2006 wedding. You can occasionally find Gloria waiting tables and mixing cocktails behind the bar at her parents' restaurant Jung's Dynasty in Gresham, Oregon. Gloria speaks Cantonese, Japanese and has studies in Mandarin.