The Vietnamese with Kenneth Nguyen

Bích Ngọc Cao is a digital marketing and communications executive whose career spans media organizations, tech startups, the music industry, government, and nonprofits. She serves as senior adviser, communications, in the Superintendent's office of Los Angeles Unified. She has enjoyed an unconventional path that includes stints at organizations and companies such as Define American, (RED), the...

Ngoc-Tran Vu (she/her) is a Vietnamese-American interdisciplinary artist and organizer whose socially engaged work draws from her experience as a community organizer, educator, and lightworker. Tran moves between mediums and materials to work in painting, photography, sculpture and social practice so that her art can best resonate and engage with its audience intentionally. Born in Vietnam, Tran c...

Diep Tran is a 3rd generation restaurateur/chef and the founder of The Banh Chung Collective. She is an advocate for better working conditions for restaurant workers.  She’s appeared on Netflix’s Ugly Delicious, HBO Max’s Take Out with Lisa Ling, and KCET’s Migrant Kitchen. Most recently, she co-authored The Red Boat Cookbook with Cuong Pham and Tien Nguyen. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircl...

Alex Duong is a Los Angeles-based comedian, writer, and actor. He is the youngest of six children of Huong Thanh Le (tailor) and Noul Van Duong (machinist). His writings on the Vietnam War gained him a full-scholarship and eventually a meeting with producers in Orange County, CA. With the mild support of his parents, Duong left school to pursue a feature development deal with Melody Phan of Zenoos...

Uyen Le is currently the chef owner of Bé Ù in Los Angeles.  Bé Ù opened in February 2021 and is a reflection of Chef-Owner Uyen Le's Vietnamese heritage and Southern California upbringing. It stands as a safe place for people from diverse backgrounds to work and hone their craft. Bé Ù seeks to make fresh and flavorful food at affordable prices while creating a safe, supportive, and profession...

The Ravenous Couple is Hong and Kim. They believe good food and cooking brings friends, family, and loves ones together—and keeps them together, hence their motto,  Cooking Life Together . Raised in first generation immigrant Vietnamese-American families in opposite parts of the country, Hong and Kim both were nurtured with a love for Vietnamese heritage and cuisine. Their mission is to show you h...

Dan Nguyen is a Vietnamese American artist, creative director and music producer / DJ. Born and raised in Southern California and Saigon Vietnam, the multi-disciplinary artist grew updrawing surreal worlds influenced by a myriad of concepts, such as 70s LP artwork, obscure zines, nostalgic rave, graffiti, and US Asian culture. Continually pushing ideas and honing crafts, Dan maintains a delicate b...

Oanh Thu Thi Ly was born in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. She immigrated to America as a boat refugee and grew up in Houston, Texas. She studied playwriting at the University of Texas at Austin where she was a recipient of a James Michener Playwriting Fellowship. She started her TV writing career on the hit CBS crime show  Criminal Minds.   Other broadcast credits include the Bad Robot/NBC show  Revo...

Đoan Hoàng is a Vietnamese-American documentary film director, producer, editor, and writer. She directed and produced the 2007 documentary Oh, Saigon about her family, after leaving Vietnam on the last civilian helicopter as Saigon fell. The documentary won several awards at film festivals and was broadcast on PBS from 2008 to 2012. Hoang was selected to be a delegate to Spain for the American Do...

Anh Hong Rucker is a cloud security architect and senior cybersecurity engineer at JPL NASA in Pasadena, California. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Tony Vu, founder of Flint Social Club, has been invested in building community and countering the toxic culture of the food world since his start in the industry. As chef/owner of noodle stall MaMang in the Flint Farmers’ Market, he’s committed to paying living wages to his employees and fostering a safe and supportive work culture. As executive chef/partner of fast casual restaurant The Good Bowl...

A diplomat for nearly thirty years, Ted Osius served from 2014 to 2017 as U.S. ambassador to Vietnam, a country he has loved since serving there in the 1990s, when he helped open the U.S. Consulate General in Ho Chi Minh City and was one of the first U.S. diplomats at the U.S. Embassy in Hanoi.  Leading a mission team of 900, Ambassador Osius devised and implemented strategies to deepen security t...

Bryan Pham is the founder of Asian Hustle Network [AHN], Crushing it in Real Estate [CIIRE], HateIsAVirus, and a venture partner at Outlier Fund. Asian Hustle Network is a global online and offline super connector for diasporic Asians crafting creative and entrepreneurial roads to success. Bryan and his co-founder, Maggie Chui, also hosts the Asian Hustle Network Podcast which brings on community...

2022 Grammy nominated Vietnamese American singer, multimedia artist and producer, modern-day Renaissance woman, and vocal powerhouse Sangeeta Kaur (Teresa Mai) is a singular talent. Sangeeta’s body of work is both cinematic in scope and spans a wide range of genres such as Classical, New Age, Contemporary and Spiritual. Sangeeta earned a Bachelor of Music degree in Opera Performance from the Bob C...

Dr. Tung Nguyen is Chair of AAPI Victory Alliance and President of PIVOT-The Progressive Vietnamese American Organization, both 501c4 organizations dedicated to the AAPI progressive movement. He is also a pioneer in Asian American health research, a practicing primary care physician, and a professor of medicine at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF). Dr. Nguyen served as a Commissio...

Nguyễn Cao Kỳ Duyên is a Vietnamese-American singer, songwriter, and master of ceremonies, notably co-hosting the Paris by Night series. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Nguyễn Cao Kỳ Duyên là một ca sĩ, nhạc sĩ người Mỹ gốc Việt và chủ lễ, nổi bật là người dẫn chương trình Paris by Night. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

A refugee of the Vietnam war, Derek Nguyen is a screenwriter, director, and producer. His directorial feature debut The Housemaid was released by IFC Films in 2018 and sold to 22 different territories around the world. An American adaption called Grave Hill is heading to production in 2022, written by Oscar-winner Geoffrey Fletcher (Precious), directed by Deon Taylor (Black & Blue) and produce...

Please join Billy Le and Tram Le as they explain how Tết has long been an important tradition that represents Vietnamese culture. On this day, we reunite with family members from different generations to celebrate a new beginning. This upcoming new year is even more special as we are finally able to rejoin and celebrate Tết together after a tumultuous year. This year, the UVSA Tết Festival theme i...

From nature workshops to botanical recipes, Emily Han helps people cultivate their connection to the earth. Her work as a naturalist, writer, and teacher focuses on intersections of nature, culture, food, and plant medicine. Emily lives in Los Angeles and is the author of Wild Remedies and Wild Drinks and Cocktails. To see more, visit EmilyHan.com Emily Han  Author of Wild Drinks & Cocktails +...

Viet Nguyen, an Austin native, graduated from film school at the University of Texas and now resides in Los Angeles.  He directed and co-wrote the horror-comedy feature, Crush the Skull, which played at over a dozen film festivals, and picked up the Nightfall Award at the Los Angeles Film Festival, as well as Best Feature at the San Diego Asian American Film Festival. Viet has also directed a bunc...

Cuong Do recently retired as President of  the Samsung Global Strategy Group, where he helps set the strategic direction of Samsung Group’s diverse business portfolio. He continues to serve as a Senior Advisor to Samsung’s senior leadership lead the group’s strategy and growth efforts.  Prior to Samsung, Cuong served as the Chief Strategy Officer for Merck, Tyco Electronics, and Lenovo. He was als...

Ocean Vuong is the author of The New York Times bestselling novel, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous, out from Penguin Press (2019) and forthcoming in 30 languages. A recipient of a 2019 MacArthur "Genius" Grant, he is also the author of the critically acclaimed poetry collection, Night Sky with Exit Wounds, a New York Times Top 10 Book of 2016, winner of the T.S. Eliot Prize, the Whitin...

Philip Nguyễn is the Executive Director of the Vietnamese American Roundtable (VAR). After graduating from UC Berkeley with B.A. degrees in Ethnic Studies and Asian American and Asian Diaspora Studies, he earned his M.A. degree in Asian American Studies from the College of Ethnic Studies at San Francisco State University, where he teaches courses on Vietnamese American Literature and the History o...

Alice Duong Trinh is a second-generation Vietnamese American living in California. Her parents immigrated to the United States after the Vietnam war and she is the oldest of three daughters. She is a pharmacist, a wife, a mom, and an inspired traveler and storyteller during her free time. It was an important challenge to her parents that their family assimilated to American life, while still prese...