Career
After graduation, Soon-Shiong worked for a few years at Equal Education, an activist movement in South Africa, before moving to work in the office of the President of the World Bank Group, focusing on technology and development (especially Benin), where she continues to be a consultant.
In August 2020, Soon-Shiong founded the nonprofit organization Fund for Guaranteed Income (F4GI) and became the co-director of the Compton Pledge, an F4GI initiative to trial a guaranteed income program in Compton, California. [13] [14] The organization later expanded to Long Beach, California, forming the Long Beach Pledge, [2] and now runs seven such initiatives.
Soon-Shiong has been involved in news media, especially the Los Angeles Times (her father purchased the paper in 2018, and she interned for the paper for two summers a few years before his purchase [11] ), since June 2020, when she criticized the Los Angeles Times for its crime coverage, [5] notably its use of the term "looting" in its headlines during the George Floyd protests. [15] The next month, when there were fears of layoffs, Soon-Shiong urged her father to meet with Black and Latino employees; no layoffs occurred. [16] In February 2021, when the Wall Street Journal speculated that Patrick Soon-Shiong was looking to sell the Los Angeles Times, Soon-Shiong responded that they were "100% wrong". [17] [16] On June 25, 2021, it was announced that Soon-Shiong had joined the Committee to Protect Journalists's board of directors. [18] She also serves as the director of One Fair Wage [19] and on the board of Compton Development Corporation. [20]
In September 2025, Soon-Shiong became the publisher of Drop Site News . [4] [5]
In politics
On September 13, 2021, West Hollywood council member Lindsey Horvath appointed Soon-Shiong to the Public Safety Commission. As a commissioner representing citizen concerns, she questioned policing in the city. [21] [22] Soon-Shiong was met with backlash for this, with Horvath calling the backlash "rooted in racism". [23] In June 2022, the West Hollywood City Council voted to reduce the number of sheriffs in the city and replace them with unarmed security guards, a move Soon-Shiong called "pragmatic and fiscally responsible" but said "could have gone further." [24]
In July 2022, Soon-Shiong announced that she would step down as a Public Safety Commissioner in August 2022 to continue her studies at the University of Oxford, where she had been remotely enrolled during the COVID-19 pandemic. [25] [26]
In October 2024, Soon-Shiong said the Los Angeles Times's refusal to endorse Kamala Harris in the 2024 United States presidential election was motivated by Harris's continued support for Israel during the ongoing war in Gaza. [27] Her father later disputed that statement. [28]
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