Saa’un Bell She / Her

Saa’un Bell is executive vice president at Power California, the nation’s largest youth civic engagement organization building political power for young voters of color around economic justice. She leads political, policy, and narrative strategy—expanding the vote, advancing an economic agenda rooted in young people’s everyday needs, cultivating the next generation of leaders, and reimagining democracy from the ground up.

Born in Angeles City, Philippines and raised in East Long Beach, Saa’un is the proud daughter of John Fitzgerald Bell I, a Black Southern airplane mechanic and longshoreman, and Nenita Deladia, a Filipino-Visayan immigrant and nurse assistant. Before Power, she spent over a decade organizing Black and Brown youth and community college students to transform California’s public education system, helping win landmark victories like the Local Control Funding Formula.

Her organizing, strategy, writing, and vision for democracy are deeply rooted in her lineage. Outside her work, she writes short fiction, fishes jetties and oceans, and is a self-described Paladin. She is a first-generation UC Riverside graduate with a B.A. in Philosophy.