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Philadelphia, Pa, Us

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States

- Manage cases of formerly incarcerated Southeast Asian community members facing deportation who seek immigration relief and post-conviction relief, such as applying for a gubernatorial pardon in the state of Pennsylvania- Develop and facilitate political education workshops to build the leadership of formerly incarcerated community members impacted by deportation- Strategize, implement, and support local, state, and national level campaigns that will provide relief to formerly incarcerated Southeast Asian community members and immigrant communities facing deportation- Oversee VietLead's Communications by creating and posting social media content, editing and managing our website, and implementing our seasonal newsletter aligned with our communications strategy to shift and transform narratives in the Southeast Asian refugee and immigrant community of PhiladelphiaFormerly- Led and managed 4 college-aged interns and 15 Southeast Asian Philadelphia high school students during the 2021-2022 Community Building Fellowship youth program by creating and facilitating political education workshops and supporting students' in writing an op-ed on anti-Asian violence against Philadelphia Asian youth.

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States

- Mentored 3 Southeast Asian Philadelphia high school students participating in the PhillyRoots youth program - Facilitated political education workshops for Southeast Asian high school students in Philadelphia- Supported Southeast Asian Philadelphia youth in executing campaigns to free formerly incarcerated community members from ICE detention- Supported a campaign to free Vietnamese formerly incarcerated members from ICE detention and deportation

- Created viewing guides project to accompany VietLead's Taking Root docuseries, combatting racialized disinformation in Philadelphia's Vietnamese and Southeast Asian refugee and immigrant community- Received project mentorship and support from MediaJustice staff and appointed mentor in the Media Justice field- Participate in intensives and trainings related to transformative media organizing

University Of Pennsylvania

As a 2021-2022 Undergraduate Research Fellow, I was awarded $2,500 to complete my independent historical research project, "(Dis)placed: A Story of the War on Southeast Asian Refugee Youth in Philadelphia from 1975-2000," advised by Dr. Eiichiro Azuma of the History Department and the Asian American Studies Program at the University of Pennsylvania. In April 2022, I presented my project findings during the Andrea Mitchell Center's 15th Annual Undergraduate Research Conference Project Description: Drawing from oral histories and archival material, this project will tell the story of how newly resettled Southeast Asian refugee youth in Philadelphia navigated their neighborhoods fraught with neoliberal under-resourcing, racism, bullying, and violence. As they formed gangs to assert their own sense of belonging and to protect themselves, the War on Drugs and the War on Crime against poor Black and Brown youth quickly swept these subjects of "American rescue" into prison, demonstrating how—for these refugees—the war truly never ended. This story contextualizes the lives of over 16,000 formerly incarcerated Southeast Asian refugees now facing deportation and the struggle to free the Southeast Asian refugee community from the ongoing violence of American imperialism.

University Of Pennsylvania

As a 2021-2022 Undergraduate Research Fellow, I was awarded $1,500 to complete my independent historical research project, "(Dis)placed: A Story of the War on Southeast Asian Refugee Youth in Philadelphia from 1975-2000," advised by Dr. Eiichiro Azuma of the History Department and the Asian American Studies Program at the University of Pennsylvania. In March 2022, I presented on my project findings during the annual Wolf Humanities Center's Undergraduate Humanities Forum Research Conference.Project Description: Drawing from oral histories and archival material, this project will tell the story of how newly resettled Southeast Asian refugee youth in Philadelphia navigated their neighborhoods fraught with neoliberal under-resourcing, racism, bullying, and violence. As they formed gangs to assert their own sense of belonging and to protect themselves, the War on Drugs and the War on Crime against poor Black and Brown youth quickly swept these subjects of "American rescue" into prison, demonstrating how—for these refugees—the war truly never ended. This story contextualizes the lives of over 16,000 formerly incarcerated Southeast Asian refugees now facing deportation and the struggle to free the Southeast Asian refugee community from the ongoing violence of American imperialism.

As an inaugural Asian American Studies (ASAM) Fellow, I was awarded $1500 to pursue an independent research project on the history of Asian American community organizing and activism against deportation and in the immigrant rights movement. I presented on my project findings during the inaugural ASAM Research Colloquium in the fall of 2020, and the fellows and I curated and executed the inaugural ASAM Fellows Symposium in the Spring of 2021 titled, "The Foreign Body."

- Created an Ethnic Studies-centered curriculum on the history of the U.S. Census and piloted this curriculum in TriO UpwardBound classroom in Tacoma, Washington- Completed briefs to APIAVote staff about news and media regarding Asian American voter rights and the 2020 Presidential Election- Created social media content for APIAVote's social media platforms, events, and the 2020 Presidential Town Hall- Edited APIAVote's website to update voting information by state for 2020 elections

Philadelphia, Pa

A member of the 2020 Canvasser Field Team, I support VietLEAD as a canvasser in Pennsylvania-wide “Get Out The Count” (GOTC) and "Get Out The Vote" (GOTV) initiatives. My responsibilities, aside from primarily doorknocking and phonebanking in the greater Philadelphia area, are supporting the team with logistical support and recruiting volunteers. Our canvassing efforts included a COVID-19 check-in which allowed the VietLEAD health team to directly support community members with mutual aid efforts, in addition to civic empowerment education on the 2020 Census and the 2020 Primary Elections.

I was responsible for creating the theme for the SASC Summer Institute (SASC SI), a five-day mentorship program for Southeast Asian high school students at the University of California, Berkeley, scheduled to occur in June 2020. I also organized SASC SI's curriculum of 12 to 15 workshops on information, issues, and concepts pertinent to the Southeast Asian American community that would have been attended by the high school students and their college-aged mentors. SASC SI 2020 was canceled due to COVID-19 disruptions.

Santa Clara, Ca

I created outreach materials for foster parent recruitment and helped social workers organize client and foster parent files. I also acted as the student liaison between Catholic Charities and Archbishop Mitty High School to organize the One World Cup, a soccer match with teams of local South Bay high school students and refugee youth in the Bay Area that sought to demonstrate solidarity among the two communities for refugees worldwide.

Bachelor'S Degree, History, Asian American Studies Minor, English Minor, Summa Cum Laude

Activities and Societies: Asian American Studies Undergraduate Advisory Board (2020-2022 Co-Chair, 2019-2020 Advocacy Chair);Penn.

4.45/4.0 Gpa

Activities and Societies: National Honors Society, California Scholarship Federation, STAND, MAPx founder, Life Corps, Fall Musicals

Ethnic Studies, Summer 2019

I had the opportunity to spend my summer with UC Berkeley's Ethnic Studies department, successfully completing ES10AC: A History of Race.