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Olyvia Chac-Nguyen
Olyvia Chac-Nguyen was born and raised in Portland. While she began her career working as a medical receptionist, in recent years she transitioned from the medical industry to the creative world.…
Lana Co
Lana Co lived in Vietnam until she was twenty-one, in April 1996 she and her family left Vietnam to move to the United States. Her father’s family was living in the United States, and they wanted to…Lana Co was born in Vietnam and immigrated to the US with her family in 1996, when she was twenty years old. In Portland, she attended Mt. Hood Community College as well as Portland State University,…
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Thuy Dam
Thuy Dam was born in Vietnam and immigrated to the United States in the 1980s, after moving through refugee camps in Thailand and the Philippines. Sponsored by her sister, Dam initially settled in…
Elizabeth Dinh
Elizabeth Dinh is a journalist and news anchor for KOIN 6, the Portland CBS affiliate. She was born in Irving, Texas, a suburb of Dallas. She has worked as a journalist and news anchor since 2004, and…In this interview, KOIN anchor Elizabeth Dinh describes her work on the Northwest Grown series. She talks about her experiences interviewing people who work in agriculture and food service to feature…
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Khoi Dinh
Khoi Dinh was born in October 1982 in Hanoi and lived there until he decided to attend a university abroad in the United States. He attended Cameron University in Oklahoma and majored in business…Khoi Dinh was born in October 1982 in Hanoi and lived there until he decided to attend a university abroad in the United States. He attended Cameron University in Oklahoma and majored in business…
Vinh The Do
Vinh The Do was born outside of Hanoi, Vietnam in 1946. He attended elementary school in Hanoi until 1954 after the battle of Dien Bien Phu. He and his family decided to leave and go to Saigon, which…
Vyvyan Doan
Vyvyan Doan was born in Portland, Oregon to a large and tight-knit family and was raised in Gresham. Her family moved to NE Portland when she was seven and she has lived in the city ever since. She…
Phil Duong
Phil Duong is a Lewis & Clark College graduate who has lived in the Pacific Northwest for most of his life. Currently a Senior Product Marketing Manager at Manzama, Duong has also worked as a…
Thuỳ Dương
Thuỳ Dương’s family lived in Tien Giang, My Tho, in the Binh Duc area before immigrating to the United States. She works at a milk tea shop. In this interview, Thuỳ describes her family’s departure…
April Eklund
April Eklund was born in Portland in 1980 and has lived here ever since. She grew up in Southwest Portland and attended school at Saint John Fisher Catholic School and St. Mary's Academy. After high…
Thanh Evoniuk
Thanh Evoniuk lived in Ho Chi Minh City until she moved to the United States to go to college. She began her studies at Seattle College. After obtaining her associate’s degree, she wanted to explore…
Huy Hoang
Huy Hoang is a first-generation Vietnamese American who was born and raised in Portland. Growing up, he lived with his parents and sister in Northeast Portland and graduated from Benson High School.…
Joanna Nga Hoàng
Joanna Nga Hoàng was born in Binh Duong, Vietnam, in 1972. In 1994, when Hoàng was twenty-two years old, she and her family left Vietnam and came to the United States. While her family settled in…
Ngan Hoang
Ngan Hoang currently works in the accounting field. She was born and raised in Hanoi, Vietnam. She came to the United States at the age of seventeen to participate in a cultural exchange program in…
Bick Huynh
Bick Huynh was born and raised in Gò Vấp, Vietnam. After attempting to leave the country twice before, her family was able to successfully leave the country in 1982. They ended up in Indonesia and…
Bình Huỳnh
Bình Huỳnh was born in Bac Lieu Province in Vietnam. In 1979, when he was twenty-four years old, he escaped Vietnam by boat. After spending eighteen months in two refugee camps in Malaysia, Huỳnh…
Chau Huynh
Chau Huynh was born in Binh Thuan Vietnam and moved to Portland in June 1997. In Vietnam Huynh worked as an English teacher. Her father was in the South Vietnamese army, which allowed Huynh and her…
Chi Jones
Chi Jones was born and raised near Saigon, Vietnam, before moving to Illinois in 1970 at the age of ten. His family was a sponsor for later Vietnamese immigrants to the United States. He attended the…
Eliza Lê
Eliza Lê was born in Portland, Oregon, one year after her parents moved to the city in 1985. As a young child, Lê lived in Southeast Portland and attended Creston Elementary. In middle school, Lê’s…
Hang Le
In this oral history, Portland State University student Rio Le interviews his father, Hang Le. Hang Le was born in 1967 in La Lang, Vietnam. In Vietnam, he met his wife, who qualified for a green card…
Huong Le
Huong Le was born in Ninh Binh province in North Vietnam. In 1954, he and his family migrated to South Vietnam to flee the communist camps. After being imprisoned in the war as a member of the South…
Jennifer Le
In this oral history, Portland State University student Rio Le interviews his sister Jennifer Le. Jennifer Le was born in 1992 in Eugene, Oregon. The family moved to the greater Portland area after…
Kevin Le
Kevin Le was born and raised in Portland, Oregon. Growing up in Southeast Portland with his family, he attended Creston Elementary School, Lane Middle School, and Franklin High School. After high…
Khuong Le
Khuong Le graduated from high school in 1945. In 1947 he moved to Hue City where he worked for a French company for a year. In 1948 he was recruited by the South Vietnamese military first as a…
Kim Le
Kim Le works as an immigration attorney and resides in Happy Valley with her family. Le was born in Allentown, Pennsylvania to Vietnamese refugee parents. She grew up in Sacramento, California and…
Nhu Le
Nhu Le was born and raised in Portland, Oregon, and is currently a student at Portland State University. She is majoring in business information technology and analytics. Growing up in Portland, Le…
Truy Le
Truy Le was born in Quang Binh, Vietnam in 1939. He attended the Saigon University of Pedagogy as well as the Saigon Law School before becoming an elementary and middle school teacher. In 1968, Le…
Tuân Lê
Tuân Lê was born in Gia Dinh, Vietnam, and evacuated to the United States with his family in 1975 as a refugee. He came to Portland in 1977 after spending time in Syracuse, New York. Lê worked for…
Van Le
Van Le was born and raised in Portland, Oregon. She attended the University of Washington where she studied architecture. She is the general manager at Jeffrey Allen Gallery, overseeing the direction…
Chau & Tim Leatherman
In this oral history, Chau and Tim Leatherman interview together. Chau, born and raised in Vietnam, first came to the United States for her graduate degree, which she obtained from Portland State…
Hiếu Liên
Monk Hiếu Liên, her spiritual name, is a Buddhist monk at the Tinh Xa Ngoc Chau. She was born in Saigon in 1965 and moved to America in 1992. Her father was a major in the Army of the Republic of…
Thi Luong
Thi Luong was born and raised in Vietnam, where she has a background in both English and computer software. She moved to Portland in 2004 with the hope of providing her son with more opportunities.…
Huan Luu
Huan Luu is retired after thirty years of service at the City of Gresham in fleet maintenance. He was born in Hanoi, Vietnam in 1950. Luu and his family struggled after his father, a high ranking…
Diana Ly
Diana Ly was born in Saigon in the early 1970s and left Vietnam with her family in the late 1970s. She and her family spent nine months in a refugee camp before coming to the United States in 1978.…
Tatiana Mac
Tatiana Mac was born in Portland and is a first-generation Vietnamese American. Growing up, they attended schools in Portland’s suburbs and went to high school in Hillsboro. After obtaining degrees in…
Dinh Mai
Dinh Mai was born in 1941 in Thu Thanh Kien Song Ninh Vietnam. His family left North Vietnam in 1954 to avoid religious and political persecution and settled in South Vietnam. They stayed in South…
Jenny Masculine
Jenny Masculine is a population epidemiologist at Clackamas County Public Health Division. She was born and raised in Jacksonville, Florida. She attended the University of North Florida where she…
Trang Morgan
Trang Morgan was born in 1987 and raised in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. As a child, Morgan wanted a diverse experience, which encouraged her to travel later on in life. When it was time for Morgan to…
Stephen Nghiem
Stephen Nghiem, a pastor at the Vietnamese Christian Community Church, was born in Hanoi, Vietnam in 1951. After moving to South Vietnam at age three, Nghiem spent his early life in Saigon, where he…Stephen Nghiem, a pastor at the Vietnamese Christian Community Church, was born in Hanoi, Vietnam in 1951. After moving to South Vietnam at age three, Nghiem spent his early life in Saigon, where he…
Cuong Ngo
Cuong Ngo is the pastor of Portland Vietnamese Church, a Seventh-day Adventist congregation. Pastor Ngo was born and raised in Vietnam during the war, but immigrated to Portland with his family in…
Dao Ngo
Dao Ngo is a small business owner who operates a hair salon in Lake Oswego. She was born in Vietnam and lived there until 1989. When Ngo was eight years old, she and her mother and sister fled on a…
David Ngo
David Ngo is a psychology student at Oregon State University. He is the son of Cuong Ngo, who also participated in this oral history project. His parents and extended family immigrated from Vietnam to…
Tommy Ngo
Tommy Ngo was born in 1999 in Portland, Oregon and is currently a student at Portland State University, majoring in computer science. He grew up outside of Portland, attending Rock Creek Elementary,…
Connie Nguyen-Truong
Connie Kim Yen Nguyen-Truong, (PhD, RN, PCCN) was born in Portland in 1976 and is an assistant professor at Washington State University College of Nursing – Vancouver. A nurse scientist with expertise…
Cat & Suu Nguyen
Cat and Suu Nguyen are spouses from Vietnam. In 1982 they relocated to Portland, Oregon. Both originally from northern Vietnam, Cat was born in 1946 in Cat Bi, while Suu was born in 1949 in a village…
Chi Nguyen
Chi Nguyen was born in Saigon in 1982. Nguyen and her family left Vietnam as political refugees in 1990 because of her grandfather’s involvement in the South Vietnamese army. Growing up in Oregon,…
Daniel Nguyen
Daniel Nguyen is a restaurant owner and served as a councilor for the City of Lake Oswego from 2018 to 2021. He is now an Oregon State Representative for House District 38. Raised in Camas,…
Jacques Nguyen
Jacques Nguyen was born in 1974 in Saigon, Vietnam. He and his family moved to Portland in 1992 through the H.O. Program. Immediately after arriving in Oregon, Nguyen attended Grant High School and…
James Nguyễn
James Nguyễn was born and raised in Portland, Oregon. He grew up in Southeast Portland and attended Whitman Elementary School, Lane Middle School, and Grover Cleveland High School. He currently…
Jill Nguyễn
Jill Nguyễn was born and raised in the Portland area to a family of Vietnamese immigrants, making her a first generation American. She attended Portland State University to earn her finance degree,…In this brief, yet powerful interview, Nguyễn tells the story of her family’s immigration to the United States during the Vietnam war. She begins the story by reflecting on how painful it was for her…
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Keely Nguyen
Born and raised in Portland, Oregon, Keely Nguyen was interviewed in 2020 while enrolled at Pitzer College in Claremont, California. Nguyen has designed her own major in Public Health and Policies,…
Lisa Nguyen
Lisa Nguyen is the owner of HeyDay Doughnuts, a bakery that specializes in rice flour donuts and Vietnamese baked goods. Nguyen created HeyDay during the height of the pandemic and has collaborated…
Long Nguyen
Long Nguyen was born in 1972 in Vietnam. He currently resides in Portland, Oregon as an entrepreneur and owner of the Mekha Grill restaurants. He inherited his love for cooking from his family, who…
Long Nguyen
Long Nguyen was born in Da Nang, Vietnam in 1937. In 1994, he was sponsored by his friend to come to the United States, where he moved to Beaverton. He has remained in the Portland area ever since,…
Lynn Nguyễn
Lynn Nguyễn is a high school student and second generation immigrant living in Portland. She is very involved with her church, Our Lady of Lavang Parish, and does many extracurriculars involving…
Mai-Anh Nguyen
When Mai-Anh Nguyen was just seven or eight years old, her father, a second lieutenant in the Army of the Republic of Vietnam, was granted special status to bring his family to the United States. They…
Mary Nguyen
Mary was born in 1954 in Hai Phong, Vietnam. She moved to Portland in 1985. After arriving in Oregon, Nguyen worked for over twenty-five years providing important Vietnamese language translation…
Michelle Nguyen
Michelle Nguyen is a mixed-race Vietnamese American comic illustrator based in Portland, Oregon. Nguyen grew up in Southern California, splitting her time between Riverside and Garden Grove before…
Pauline Bich Lieu Nguyen
Pauline Bich Lieu Nguyen is a nun at the Adorers of the Holy Cross Sisters in Portland, Oregon and is currently travelling across the US on a convent mission. She was born in 1972 and her family left…
Phu Nguyen
Phu Nguyen was born on October 13, 1940, in Vietnam. He grew up in Vietnam, and in 1962 was drafted into the South Vietnamese army. Nguyen served for six years and then decided to work for the US…Phu Nguyen was born on October 13, 1940, in Vietnam. He grew up in Vietnam, and in 1962 was drafted into the South Vietnamese army. Nguyen served for six years and then decided to work for the U.S.…
Teresa Nguyen
Teresa Nguyen was born in South Vietnam in 1964. Her father was a captain in the South Vietnamese army, as such she moved frequently during her childhood. After the war her father had to go into…
Thai Quoc Nguyen
Pastor Thai Nguyen lived in Vietnam until he was sixteen years old. He left Vietnam along with his older brother in 1981 and was sponsored to live in the United States by an American missionary who…
Thai Tien Nguyen
Thai Tien Nguyen was born and raised in Dat La, which is located in the Central Highlands of Vietnam. In Vietnam Nguyen obtained an education in English and Business. In 2009, Nguyen decided to move…
Thanh Tâm Nguyễn
Thanh Tâm Nguyễn is the manager of a hair salon in Portland and the mother of one son. Her family came to the United States through the HO (Humanitarian Program for Former Political Detainees)…
Thao Nguyen
Thao Nguyen was born in Saigon, Vietnam in 1980 and immigrated to Portland with her family in 1986. Growing up, she lived in Tigard and the Gresham areas and attended Benson High School. She then went…
Man Ninh
Man Ninh was born in Saigon, Vietnam in 1960. After the Fall of Saigon, Ninh was unable to enroll in university in Vietnam. He and his family escaped Vietnam by boat in 1981. For the next three years…
Sandy Thảo Ninh
Sandy Thảo Ninh was born in 1991 in California to a family of Vietnamese immigrants. She attended the University of California Irvine and then the Pacific University School of Pharmacy. She works as…
Trang Oliver
Trang Oliver is a library professional who works for Multnomah County Library. Alongside her work assisting the many diverse communities that utilize the library’s services, Trang also helps lead…
Adele Pham
Adele Pham is a documentary filmmaker who grew up in Portland, Oregon. In Portland, she attended the Metropolitan Learning Center and Benson High School. She did not become interested in documentary…Adele Pham is a documentary filmmaker who grew up in Portland, Oregon. In Portland, she attended the Metropolitan Learning Center and Benson High School. She did not become interested in documentary…
Hai Pham
Hai Pham was born in 1979 on Pulau Tengah in Malaysia. Pham’s family fled Vietnam by boat, and stayed in Pulau Tengah for a year before being sponsored to the United States. Hai Pham grew up in…
Hieu Pham
Hieu Pham, dentist and co-founder of Atlas Dental, grew up in Portland, Oregon, and attended Portland State University and OHSU. In addition to founding his own private practice with his wife in 2018,…
Hoang Pham
Hoang Pham is a Research and Policy Fellow at the Stanford Center for Racial Justice at Stanford Law School, where his work focuses on education equity, public safety and policing. He is also a…
Huy Pham
Huy Pham is an entrepreneur born and raised in Portland. Growing up, he attended Benson High School and then graduated from Portland State University with a degree in advertising and management. He is…
Khanh Pham
Khanh Pham, Organizing Director of OPAL Environmental Justice Oregon, was born in Edmond, Oklahoma but moved with her family to Irvine, California at age eleven. Pham enjoys moving between the worlds…Khanh Pham, the Oregon State House Representative for District 46, was born in Edmond, Oklahoma but moved with her family to Irvine, California at age eleven. After receiving her undergraduate degree…
Lan Pham
Lan Phạm was born in 1973 in Bến Tre, Vietnam. Before coming to the United States, she worked as a registered nurse at a children’s hospital. After moving to Portland with her husband, Phạm went to…
Lillyanne Pham
Lillyanne Pham is a cultural organizer and artist facilitator living in East Portland. At the time of this interview, they worked as a Youth Program Coordinator with the Historic Parkrose Neighborhood…
Minh Pham
When Minh Pham was sixteen years old, he escaped Vietnam on a boat to Malaysia. There, he lived in a refugee camp before joining his father and brother in the United States. His mother and four…
Thuy Pham
Thuy Pham is the founder and owner of Mama Dút, a vegan Vietnamese restaurant in Portland. Pham was born in Vietnam and immigrated to Portland with her family in 1982, but grew up both in Oregon and…
Tot Van Pham
Tot Van Pham was born in 1936 in Saigon. He worked as a manager of over 200 people in Vietnam and when he came to the United States he found work at the Epson company. He is a poet in his spare time…
Vu Pham
Vu Pham is a Portland based writer, director, producer, and actor. He is a refugee from Vietnam whose work has been significantly influenced by personal and historical trauma, existential philosophy,…
Andy Phan
Andy Phan is from Saigon, now known as Ho Chi Minh City, and came to the United States in the summer of 1975 at the age of fourteen. Right after the war, Phan and his family were placed in Camp…
Pamela Phan
Pamela Phan was born in Portland, Oregon in 1976. One of the first Vietnamese families to arrive in Oregon, Phan’s entire extended family left Vietnam as stowaways on a Navy boat in April 1975 and…
Thúy Phan
Thúy Phan came to Portland in 1985 from Quang Nam, Vietnam. Many members of Phan’s family were already established in Portland, including her grandfather, who sponsored her family’s transition. Phan…
Van Phan
Van Phan is an employee of Multnomah County, where she has worked for over nineteen years. Phan immigrated to the United States with her family in December of 1994. She was born in Saigon, where she…
Susan Quang
Susan Quang was born in Saigon and grew up there until 1982 when she left Vietnam at the age of twenty-one. After the war, she and her family decided to leave Vietnam to avoid political prosecution.…
Benedictine Sisters of Mt. Angel: Sister Christine Rausch
Sister Christine Rausch is a Benedictine Nun who has been at Mount Angel Abbey for about 70 years. She decided to become a nun at Mt. Angel because the majority of her family decided to join other…
Jacqueline Saporiti
Jacqueline Saporiti, a painter and recent Portlander, was born and raised in Saigon. In 1965, she came to the United States through a program with the American Field Service and was an exchange…
Julian Saporiti
Julian Saporiti is a musician, scholar, and recent Portlander. He was born and raised in Nashville, Tennessee before going to music school, joining a rock band, and touring throughout North America…
Tina Semko
Tina Semko is a first-generation Vietnamese American who has resided in Oregon her entire life. Semko’s family immigrated to the United States from Vietnam in 1975. Her mother’s family settled in…
Lê Văn Sơn
Lê Văn Sơn was born in 1985 in Thanh Hoa Province, in the north of Vietnam. While living in Vietnam, he worked as a tour guide. After speaking out in opposition to Vietnam’s government, he fled to…
Dao Strom
Dao Strom is a Vietnamese American writer, artist, and musician who has been living in Portland since 2010. Strom was originally born in Saigon, Vietnam, and immigrated to the United States with her…Dao Strom is a Vietnamese American writer, artist, and musician who has been living in Portland since 2010. Strom was originally born in Saigon, Vietnam, and immigrated to the United States with her…
Nga To
Nga To was born in 1950 in Hanoi, Vietnam, but moved to Saigon when he was four years old. In 2007, he was sponsored by his son and came to the United States, where he settled in Portland, Oregon.…
Steven Tonthat
Steven Tonthat is an arts and culture journalist for Oregon Public Broadcasting. He grew up on Maui and moved to Portland to work at OPB. In addition to specializing in arts and culture, Tonthat has a…
Khiêm (Tim) Tran
Khiem (Tim) Tran was born in 1950 in Thai Binh, a province in North Vietnam. He and his family only stayed there for the first few years of Tran’s life before they moved to South Vietnam to escape the…Tim Tran is an author who grew up in Saigon before coming to the United States for college. He attended Georgetown University, Pacific University, and then UC Berkeley. He returned to Vietnam 1974…
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Minh Tran
Minh Tran was born in Saigon, Vietnam in 1964 and is a professional choreographer, contemporary dancer, and an educator at Reed College. He began training in dance as a child with the Peking Opera…
Samantha Tran
Samantha Tran was born in Vietnam in 1975, a month after the fall of Saigon. In 1976, she and her family escaped the country on a fishing boat, stayed in a refugee camp in Malaysia for one year, and…
Thu Thuy Tran
Thu Thuy Tran was born and raised in South Vietnam, where she and her family lived near the Mekong River. She and her daughter left Vietnam in 1980 to avoid persecution from the communist government.…
Thuy Tran
Thuy Tran is an optometrist who came to the United States from Vietnam as a child in 1975. She grew up in Westminster, California, and moved to the Portland area to attend Pacific University. Tran is…
Xuan-Giang Tran
Xuan-Giang Tran was born in 1974 in Vietnam. Her mother and father were educators in Vietnam, and shortly after Tran was born, her father moved to Japan to further his education. Her mother had been…
Anthony Truong
Anthony Truong was born in Vietnam and moved to Portland with his family in 1980, when he was almost four years old. His family settled in North Portland, the city where they would ultimately remain.…
Davis Truong
Davis Truong was born in 1973 in Phan Thiet, Vietnam. He came to Portland, Oregon in 1978, after leaving Vietnam by boat with his family. Truong grew up in North Portland, attending Roosevelt High…
Kathy Truong
Kathy Truong immigrated from Vietnam to the United States in 1979 and has lived in and around Portland, Oregon for most of her life. She attended Portland Public Schools while growing up and later…
Ken Truong
Ken Truong was born in Vietnam in 1948 and came to the United States in 1979 as a refugee. In this oral history interview, Truong discusses the people and organizations that sponsored him to come to…
Kien Truong
Kien Truong is a first generation Vietnamese American migrant. He came to the United States in 2014 with his family to join his grandparents and much of his extended family in Portland. He attended…
Vân Truong
Dr. Vân Truong was born in South Vietnam and began her migration to the United States in April of 1975, the last day of the fall of Saigon. Truong in her time in Portland has become an influential…
Tai Tu
Tai Tu was born in 1938 in Vietnam and moved to the United States in the late twentieth century. When Tu finished his schooling he became a school teacher for math and science, and when the Vietnam…
Thao Tu
Thao Tu is the president of the Vietnamese Community of Oregon (VNCO.) He was born in Vietnam in 1962 as the son of two teachers. Tu and his family were persecuted by Vietnam’s communist government…
Thuy Tu
Thuy Tu was born in Phan Thiet, Vietnam. Soon after the Fall of Saigon, she and her immediate family sought refuge in Hong Kong. They were then sponsored to come to Portland, Oregon when Tu was three…
Kiệt Đào Vân
Kiệt Đào Vân was born in Vietnam and came to Portland in 1985. In Portland, he has held a variety of jobs including painting houses, being a teacher’s aid in the public schools, working in a clinic…
Vo Vo
Vo Vo is a radical educator and professional artist who has been living in Portland since 2014. Although they were born in New Zealand, Vo has also lived in many places around the world, including…
Roman Vo
Roman Vo was born in Vietnam and came to the United States in 2000 where he lived in Rochester, New York, and attended high school. After graduating high school and college, Vo pursued a PhD in…
Agnes Vu
Agnes Vu was born in Saigon, Vietnam in 1971. She immigrated to Portland, Oregon with her parents and three siblings in 1992 because of her father’s status in the South Vietnamese military. Vu…
An Thanh Vũ
An Thanh Vũ was born in North Vietnam, but spent most of his childhood in what used to be the French city of Saigon, following the First Indochina War. Beginning in 1964, Vũ worked as a high school…
Margret Vu
Margret Vu was born in Hanoi, Vietnam during the 1950s. After the 1954 Geneva Conference, Vu and her family moved South to the city of Da-Lat. In 1972, Vu enrolled in Laval University in Quebec City,…
Benji Vuong
Benji Vuong is a park ranger and freelance photographer. At five years old, his family left Vietnam as one of the last families to come to the United States through the Humanitarian Operation. Growing…
Hanh (William) Vuong
William Vuong was born in central Vietnam, but moved to Saigon in 1953. In 1962, he joined the South Vietnamese Special Forces, serving as an interpreter and office manager. After the Fall of Saigon,…
Húng Si Vương
Húng Si Vương was born in Kontum, Vietnam, one of six siblings. He fled the country by boat in 1988 with the hope of making it to the United States and eventually sponsoring the rest of his family.…
Vananh Nguyen Vuong
Vananh Nguyen Vuong was born in Saigon, Vietnam, and moved to the United States in 2003 when she was sixteen. Vuong and her family first settled in Westminster California because they were sponsored…
Vinh Wong
Vinh Wong was born in Bao Loc, Vietnam in 1969, and immigrated with his family to the United States in 1978. Although Wong’s parents were born in Vietnam, his grandparents on both his mother’s and his…
Loan Phan Ziehl
Loan Phan Ziehl was born in Hue Vietnam and is currently residing in Lake Oswego, Oregon. She works as a Vietnamese immersion teacher at Portland Public Schools. She teaches early elementary school…Loan Phan Ziehl was born in Vietnam in 1974. Before moving to the Portland area in 2007, she lived in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and Los Angeles, California. In Vietnam, Ziehl worked as a high school…
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