The Vietnamese with Kenneth Nguyen

Phan Quang Tue was the son of a Vietnamese politician, and he grew up in South Vietnam during Ngo Dinh Diem's dictatorship. He fled to the United States in 1975 at the end of the Vietnam War, and he went on to serve as an Immigration & Naturalization Service trial attorney from 1988 to 1993, as an administrative law judge from 1993 to 1995, and as a Republican judge on the San Francisco Im...

Tuan Nguyen is a Managing Director at Rockefeller Capital Management. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Chris Ngo is a co-founder of The Leverage which began as a boutique mens’ streetwear agency and has now evolved to so much more, including wholesale and direct-to-consumer sales, in-house design, production, and distribution, while owning and creating more brands within the umbrella including - Embellish, Haus of JR, Crysp, Lifted Anchors, Diet Starts Monday and many others). Advertising Inquiries...

Sahra Nguyen is the founder of Nguyen Coffee Supply. Through Nguyen Coffee Supply, her mission is to build the most influential Vietnamese coffee brand in the world while promoting diversity, sustainability & cultural integrity. Sahra has been featured in The Wall Street Journal, VICE, Forbes, New York Times, Saveur, Imbibe Magazine, Vietcetera, CNN. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.co...

Wendy Lieu is the Co-Founder and CEO of Socola Chocolatier, an award-winning San Francisco chocolate company. Socola is the word for chocolate in Vietnamese, honoring her parents who fled Vietnam in 1981 as Boat People, landing in a Malaysian refugee camp where Wendy was later born. Her Vietnamese heritage is reflected in her product flavors and grit to pursue her dream. In 2001, Wendy, 19, taught...

Frank Jao (Triệu Như Phát) is a prominent Vietnamese-American businessman, philanthropist, and educational consultant. He is the founding donor of the Harvard Global Vietnam Wars Studies Program at the Harvard Kennedy School’s Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation. Jao was a presidential appointee to the Vietnam Education Foundation, which provides educational exchanges between the U...

Ashley Nguyen DeWitt has worked in voiceover for over a decade, starting as an intern for a commercial voice casting company. She then hopped around from commercials to animation, working in the casting/talent relations department at DreamWorks TV. From there, she worked her way into becoming an animation casting and voice director for studios like Netflix, Warner Bros, Nickelodeon, Cartoon Networ...

Thach Nguyen is the  CEO & Founder of Thach Real Estate Group , a. Seattle-based real estate company, a seasoned investor, developer and popular content creator. As an inspirational leader Thach is a sought after speaker, philanthropist and author and co-founder of “The Gift”. Thach has been featured The Seattle Times, NW Asian Weekly, The Early Show, Puget Sound Business Journal, The Internat...

Scott Ly's stars as the male lead in the NETFLIX feature film A TOURIST GUIDE TO LOVE opposite Rachel Leigh Cook. It was filmed throughout Vietnam. The story is about an executive, played by Rachel Leigh Cook who goes through an unexpected breakup, then accepts an assignment to go undercover and learn about the tourist industry in Vietnam. She falls in love with her Vietnamese tourist guide. L...

Steven Ho is a an LA based comedian and content and digital creator known for his viral “Tips from the ER” videos on TikTok and Instagram. He was previously an ER Technician. Learn more about Steven:  https://linktr.ee/steveioe Find Steven on Instagram:  https://www.instagram.com/steveioe Find Steven on YouTube:  https://www.youtube.com/steveioe Find Steven on TikTok:  https://www.tiktok.com/@stev...

Raised in Seattle with roots in California and Vietnam, Helen Nguyen has always had a passion for food. After a decade in real estate business and sales, she pursued her passion and moved to New York and attended the Institute of Culinary Education. While at school, she started an apprenticeship at L'Appart under Chef Nicolas Abello, who led his team to their first Michelin star within the fir...

Join Nam C. Kim and Tuan Lee as they explore their Vietnamese Korean heritages. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

James Nguyen is a high school student at La Quinta in Orange County. He has developed a cancer detecting electric toothbrush and was a finalist for the Rise Challenge, a global competition that finds "brilliant people who need opportunity and supports them for life as they work to serve others." Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/pr...

Amy M. Le is a Vietnam War survivor and Congenital Heart Defect (CHD) warrior. She is the founder of Quill Hawk Publishing, a woman-owned, Asian American company that helps writers indie publish their books while amplifying diverse voices through storytelling. Amy grew up in Seattle and had a successful career at Microsoft and T-Mobile before pivoting to become a writer, publisher, and speaker. Sh...

Described by Huffington Post as, “The most grounded spiritual entrepreneur on the planet”, recognized as an original ‘Rare Bird’ – Australia’s top 50 Influential Female Entrepreneurs and included in Blackwell and Hobday’s global recognition of ‘200 Women Who Will Change the Way You See the World’, Pauline is nothing short of extraordinary. Unable to be pigeon holed, the mother of two speaks and te...

Hưng BlackhearteD (Nguyễn Tiến Hưng) người thành lập đồng thời là ca sĩ sáng tác chính của ban nhạc rock Black Infinity. Hưng BlackhearteD được bầu chọn là 1 trong 10 Rocker Hot nhất của Rock Việt, gương mặt Cosmo Man của tạp chí Cosmopolitan 2012 và là đại sứ cho thương hiệu rượu Jack Daniel's tại Việt Nam.  Anh sáng tác và sản xuất 3 Albums cùng Black Infinity và 2 Albums trong dự án Solo m...

Tuan Nguyen is the founder of Anh Oi, an apparel line encapsulating the Vietnamese spirit. Anh Oi started on May 1, 2005 with the simple idea of creating fashionable apparel that connects todays life style and design with Vietnamese culture. Anh Oi, uses socially conscious materials to produce fun and playful clothing for everyday wear. Most of the designs comes from living in a dynamic Vietnamese...

Dinh Thai is an Asian American award-winning writer/director by way of commercial directing. Born in Vietnam, fled to France, and finally settled in Los Angeles, the 80s and 90s nurtured a cultural mix that strongly informs Dinh’s filmic approach and aesthetic. He brings a youthful, multicultural viewpoint to his storytelling. His work blends visual style with realism, focusing on comedy and drama...

Nhan Nguyen has an M.S. in Forensic Studies from Stevenson University and a B.S. in Electrical Engineer from California State University, Long Beach. Nhan has over 10 years of experience in Electrical Design Engineering and over 18 years of Digital Forensics experience with an extensive background in the field of digital forensics. Nhan works for the DOJ/FBI as a Master Digital Forensic Examiner (...

Tu Huu Nguyen (Tom) is a Vietnamese American special effects and toy producer. He has also been a lecturer at RMIT University in Vietnam for the last 15 years. In this episode, Tom and Kenneth discuss the future of AI and its practical application across education, labor and leisure. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

With more than two decades of experience in advertising and branding, George has worked on celebrated campaigns for global brands such as Nike, Apple, Samsung, and Visa and has led offices in Vietnam and Canada for the global advertising network, TBWA\. He is cofounder of the youth market research initiative, Untapped and a partner in the brand strategy firm, A Dozen Cookies. Today, you're mos...

Dr Indigo Willing (she/her) is a sociologist, research consultant and community volunteer. She currently lives in Meanjin on the land of the Jagera and Turrbal Peoples. Her theoretical and empirical work examines issues of power, social change and representation. Her research and community work creates bridges between academia and community sectors, and spans a number of social worlds that reflect...

Vivian Pham is a Vietnamese novelist, essayist and poet from Sydney, Australia. In high school she wrote a novel called  The Coconut Children , which was published in March 2020 by Penguin Random House. She is now 22 and writing the play and stage adaptations of the novel while studying Philosophy at university. She has always wanted to be a writer, but hopes also to become many more things, such...

Lan Duong is Associate Professor in Cinema & Media Studies at the University of Southern California. She is the author of  Treacherous Subjects: Gender, Culture, and Trans-Vietnamese Feminism  (Temple University Press, 2012). Dr. Duong’s second book project,  Transnational Vietnamese Cinemas and the Archives of Memory,  examines Vietnamese cinema from its inception to the present day. Her rese...

Crystal Bui is an Emmy-nominated television news reporter and recipient of the Edward R. Murrow Award. She is the author of the upcoming book, "More to Tell" available for pre-order at MoreToTellBook.com. Crystal has reported on some of the biggest stories in the last decade: George Floyd’s death in Minneapolis and the subsequent riots throughout the city; investigations into hate crimes i...