Liberty Hill, an organization that identifies community leaders at the forefront of social change in Los Angeles, has featured Tammy Bang Luu, Associate Director of the Labor/Community Strategy Center, as one of their 2011 Leaders to Watch. "Tammy is an example of the new generation of leaders in American communities whose connections to other countries offer the progressive movement a wider world view," Liberty Hill writes.

The LA Observed has also recognized Tammy, writing that she is one of "America's new young leaders" who is "able to see the shared human condition and bring that expanded vision to the fight for better health, better jobs and equal rights."