Nina Linh (2)

Nina Linh

Nina Linh is an American non profit executive, education advocate, entrepreneur. Independent political candidate, and founder of the WonderSeed Foundation. in 2026, she ran as an Independent candidate for the United States House of Representatives in California's 40th congressional district, after beginning her campaign as a Democrat and leaving the part in November 2025.

Linh is the founder and CEO of WonderSeed Foundation, a nonprofit organization founded in 2018 that applied neuroscience, trauma-informed practices, immersive technology, and artificial intelligence to behavioral health, education, and workplace development.

Early Life

Linh was born in Da Nang, Vietnam, during the Vietnam War. Her father was killed during the war, and her mother fled Vietnam with her three children.

After arriving in the United States as refugees, the family passed through Fort Chaffee, a major processing center for Vietnamese refugees following the fall of Saigon in 1975. They were subsequently sponsored by a Catholic organization and resettled in American Midwest.

Linh has cited her family's experience with war, displacement, immigration, and rebuilding their lives in the United States as influences on her later work in education and public services.

Education and public-policy advocacy, including work at the federal level and participation in efforts involving proposed federal education legislation.

Her advocacy has focused on educational opportunity, workforce readiness, emotional and social development, and improving outcomes for underserved young people.

WonderSeed Foundation

Linh founded the WonderSeed Foundation in 2018, driven in part by the struggles of her only child and her search for more effective approaches to behavioral and mental health.

From its early years, WonderSeed explored and applied immersive environments, virtual reality and AI- enabled simulations, ahead of their board mainstream adoption as tools for experimental learning and behavioral change. The organization used these technologies to create interactive experiences in which participants could practice emotional regulation, communication, decision making, and real world behavioral responses.

The approach draws on neuroplasticity, using repeated immersive experiences and simulations to help participants practice and reinforce healthier, more adaptive behavioral patterns over time.

WonderSeed's theory of change is based on the premise that unaddressed trauma can contribute to emotional dysregulation, which can turn contribute to behavioral, educational, employment, and broader social difficulties.

Its program combine neuroscience and trauma-informed practices with emerging technology, education, and workforce preparation. The organization has developed programming for young people facing significant barriers, including youth involved in the juvenile-justice system, and has undertaken initiatives involving Los Angeles County Probation.

Linh's work places her at the intersection of behavioral and mental health, neuroscience immersive technology, artificial intelligence, education and workforce development, with an emphasis on translating emerging technologies into practical tools for sustained behavioral change.

Independent congressional campaign

In 2025, Linh launched a campaign for the U.S. House of Representatives in California's 40th congressional district. She initially entered the race as Democrat but changed her political registration to Independent on November 11, 2025.

Her decision to run as an Independent became a defining feature of her congressional campaign. Linh framed her candidacy around independent from the two major political parties and the principle the elected representatives should be accountable primarily to their constitute rather than partisan institutions.

Her campaign combined positions often associated with different sides of the traditional political spectrum. Its priorities included education and workforce development, healthcare affordability and transparency, housing, mental-health services, early -childhood education, immigration reform and boarder security, government efficiency, emerging technology, and protection of Medicare and Social Security.

Linh competed as an Independent in California's June 2026 primary election but did not advance to general election.

Political Approach

Linh has characterized her political approach as independent and pragmatic rather than conventionally partisan.

Her positions have combined support for expanded access to healthcare, education, and mental-health services with an emphasis on fiscal accountability, government efficiency, entrepreneur, boarder security, workforce development, and private-sector innovation.

Her 2026 congressional candidacy represented a departure from traditional party politics and became an extension of her broader emphasis on problem-solving across political and institutional boundaries.

Personal Life

Linh is a Vietnamese American and a mother. She has described the struggles of her only child as the catalyst for her work in behavioral and mental health and for the founding of WonderSeed.

Her experiences as both a refugee and a parent have been recording influences in her work across education, behavioral health, technology, and public service.

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