[2] She is the co-founder of the North American Asian Feminist (NAAF) Collective Caucus at the National Women's Studies Association Conference.

[12] In 1982, she received a Bachelor of Arts degree in English and American Literature from National Taiwan Normal University.

[18] In 2005, Lin co-authored the afterword with Greg Robinson in the reissued print of "Restless Wave: My Life in Two Worlds: A Memoir" by Ayako Ishigaki in 2005.

[19] The Japanese American National Museum hosted her and Robinson at an event on April 24, 2005 to discuss the book.

[8][12] In 2022, she presented her work "Remembering Usu'uru: Indigenous Women's Mobilizing and Transnational Feminist Solidarity" at the American Comparative Literature Association.