Our MissionChopsticks Alley Art promotes Southeast Asian cultural heritage through the creative shared expression of art by underserved Asian artists to foster greater understanding, acceptance and support among individuals with disabilities, the LGBTQ community, and youths.

MISSION STATEMENT: Chopsticks Alley seeks to unite and empower Vietnamese Americans with a special emphasis on emerging young leaders and cultural trends. We provide impartial, credible and important information on diverse topics to promote the Vietnamese community’s understanding of itself and the larger world’s understanding of what it means to be Vietnamese American in the 21st century.We strive to always provide a friendly space for our members to foster camaraderie through the sharing of stories, food, and charity. Website: http://www.ChopsticksAlley.comFollow us on Twitter @ChopsticksAlleyhttp://twitter.com/ChopsticksAlleyhttp://youtube.com/ChopsticksAlley.comFacebook Page: http://www.facebook.com/chopsticksalleyFacebook Group: http://www.facebook.com/group/chopsticksalley

Like Viet Thanh Nguyen’s acclaimed The Sympathizer, VietnamEazy captures with startling honesty and detail the dizzying dislocation that so many Vietnamese arrivals in the United States have experienced and, like Amy Tan’s The Joy Luck Club, explores the age-old mysteries of the mother-daughter relationship. It tells the story of Kieu, a Vietnamese-American woman, and her quest for success on a TV cooking show, introducing the intoxicating allure of Vietnamese food to a general audience, interwoven with the haunting, sorrowful tale of her family and upbringing. This is a universal tale of redemption that mothers and daughters can read together and discuss over a steaming bowl of pho.https://www.amazon.com/VietnamEazy-Novel-About-Mothers-Daughters/dp/0986189898?ie=UTF8&ref_=zg_bsnr_9857_8Reviews"We learn intricate details about Vietnamese food, including recipes that open each chapter, but VietnamEazy is much more than a foodie story. Each time Kieu cooks something, it reminds her of stories her mother or grandmother told her in years past. Memories emerge and the resulting novel interweaves several different narratives. For one, we get the current-day tale of Kieu competing on a ridiculous TV cooking show, replete with flashy Hollywood-style participants of varying degrees of flagrant superficiality. And then we get a few lifetimes' worth of mother-daughter relationship issues unique to the Vietnamese.” Gary Singh, Metro Silicon Valley"Each of the novel’s chapters begins with a recipe – among them, Feminine Salad, Sour Fish Soup and Hades Rice. Food is not only a central theme in the storytelling, it’s the connective tissue between Kieu, her mother and her mother’s mother, each of whom have different ideas of what it means to be a woman in the modern world. What follows is a Joy Luck Club-style cross-generational interplay between Asian women, each shaped by different psychological and emotional circumstances." Wallace Baine, San Jose Mercury News

The Parks and Recreation Commission advises the City Council on the City's system of parks, playgrounds, recreation centers and facilities, and recreation programs, including community sports, plays, celebrations and other recreation activities.

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EAP is a network of Bay Area arts workers and emerging leaders who are driven to improve the arts sector together. By empowering the individual arts worker with personal and professional development, and through the research and development of new models of transaction and interaction in the field.

Engage Vietnamese audiences by designing, fabricating, and developing programming for a mobile art studio that will attract multi-generational audiences at festivals, shopping malls, and libraries at the nexus of the Vietnamese community. Using the format of the Museum’s popular on-site community day programs, the mobile art studio will support a variety of pop-up visual, literary and performing art activities by Vietnamese artisans, including traditional artists ) accompanied by hands-on interpretive activities designed by teaching artists.

Host and Producer of my own show called "Văn Hóa Việt Xưa và Nay." (Vietnamese Culture Then and Now)

We're dedicated to the success of entrepreneurs in the Greater Silicon Valley Area, which includes Santa Clara and South San Mateo Counties.The Silicon Valley Small Business Development Center offers a wide variety of services for present and potential small business owners. Our services include no-charge expert counseling, low-cost training, information resources, events and seminars. All counseling services are confidential and free of charge.Our Business Advisors can help you with: Business planning; Marketing strategies and planning; Sales; Access to capital, including bank finance, SBA loans, and asset financing; Venture funding; Government contracting; Strategic technology acquisition and practical, hands-on application; Financial Projections & Budgeting; Operating Challenges; And more…All of our Business Advisors are functional experts in their field with extensive experience in working with small businesses. All of them have run one or more small businesses of their own.http://www.svsbdc.org

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Northern CA Sales Manager/Account Executive Sales Manager of local and national accounts