Thu Do is the President and Executive Director of VNHELP and has been part of the organization since its inception. In VNHELP’s first 14 years, Ms. Do played core leadership roles for the organization in various capacities. Then, in 2006, she left her 22-year engineering career in Silicon Valley’s tech industry to become a fulltime volunteer director for VNHELP, later becoming the organization’s first full-time staff member in 2010. Ms. Do’s technical skills followed her into the nonprofit sector: she’s helped automate many processes and tools to improve the organization’s structure, transparency, cost-efficiency and public image. Under her leadership, VNHELP evolved from a charity organization with a $5000 budget to a sustainably-focused international development agency nearing one million in annual receipts.She is passionate about volunteerism and community engagement. She was a co-director and anchorwoman for Vietnam Liberty Television between 1984 and 1987 and served as president of both the UC Berkeley and Contra Costa College Vietnamese Student Association during her university days. Ms. Do was featured on ABC 7 Television’s Profiles of Excellence in 2003. She graduated from University of California, Berkeley with a degree in Computer Science in 1984.