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Margaretta Wan-Ling Lin

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Margaretta Wan-Ling Lin

Identity Snapshot

  • English: Margaretta Wan-Ling Lin
  • Chinese: —
  • Era: —
  • Geography: Taiwan
  • Core roles: lawyer
  • Source: TAH Foundation Who’s Who

City of Oakland Director of Strategic Initiatives/Special Projects Director (2011-2015)

Education

  • Univ. of Virginia — 1982-1986 — B.A., East Asian Studies and Religious Studies
  • Beijing Normal Univ. — 1986-1987 — Mandarin
  • Univ. of California, Berkeley — 1987-1991 — J.D. — 1988-1991 — M.A., East Asian Studies

Employment

  • East Bay Community Law Center — Director of Community Economic Justice — (2003-2009) — City of Oakland — Senior Advisor to Mayor Ron Dellums — (2009-2010) — City of Oakland — Deputy City Administrator — (2010-2011) — City of Oakland — Director of Strategic Initiatives/Special Projects Director — (2011-2015) — The Dellums Institute for Social Justice — Executive Director — (2015-2018) — Just Cities — Executive Director — (2018-)

Family

No filled family fields on the TAH profile.

Role in the Community

  • Community profile held in the TAHS story corpus: [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/whos-who-2291-margaretta-wan-ling-lin|TAH Who’s Who #2291]] (published 2020-11-04).
  • Corpus record corroborates the civic-career track already listed here (East Bay Community Law Center, Oakland City Hall under Mayor Dellums, The Dellums Institute, Just Cities). No further mentions in memoirs or articles as of 2026-09-17.

Sources

  • |TAH Foundation

  • |taiwaneseamericanhistory.org

  • Re-grep 2026-09-19 / 2026-09-20 (slices 09170600-28, 09190400-9): corpus scan of works/articles again returns only her own TAH bibliographic record [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/whos-who-2291-margaretta-wan-ling-lin|TAH Who’s Who #2291]] — no memoir or movement-activity material to absorb; existing links above stand, no conflicts found.

  • Re-grep 2026-09-21 (slice 09201500-25): only her own Who’s Who #2291 record + index; verified-saturated, no conflicts.

  • Re-grep 2026-09-22 (slice 09211500-27): again only her own Who’s Who #2291 record + index; nothing absorbable beyond the civic-career record already linked. Verified-saturated.

  • Re-grep 2026-09-23 (slice 09221000-23): fresh ZH+EN grep returns only her own Who’s Who #2291 record + works index; nothing absorbable beyond the civic-career record already linked. Verified-saturated, no conflicts.

  • Re-grep 2026-09-24 (slice 09230700-31): fresh EN grep again returns only her own Who’s Who #2291 record + works index; nothing absorbable. Verified-saturated, no conflicts.

  • Re-grep 2026-09-25 (slice 09240800-20): fresh EN grep again returns only her own Who’s Who #2291 record + works index; nothing absorbable. Verified-saturated, no conflicts.

  • Re-grep 2026-09-26 (slice 09251400-7): fresh EN grep again returns only her own Who’s Who #2291 record + works index; nothing absorbable. Verified-saturated, no conflicts.

  • Re-grep 2026-09-30 (slice 09260800-25): fresh EN grep again returns only her own Who’s Who #2291 record + works index; nothing absorbable. Verified-saturated, no conflicts.

  • Re-grep 2026-10-04 (slice 09300321-6): fresh EN grep (Margaretta Wan-Ling Lin) again returns only her own Who’s Who #2291 record + works index; nothing absorbable. Verified-saturated, no conflicts.

  • Re-grep 2026-10-08 (slice 10070400-28): fresh ZH+EN grep (Margaretta Wan-Ling Lin / 林萬玲 / 林婉鈴 / 林萬齡) across works/articles/sources/events/topics returns only her own Who’s Who #2291 record + works/sources index; nothing absorbable. Verified-saturated, no conflicts.

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