Tom Cross is a Vietnamese American television and film editor.

He is known for his collaborations with Damien Chazelle including Whiplash for which he won the Academy Award for Best Film Editing as well as La La Land, and First Man.

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Viet Nguyen is the founder and executive chef of Kei Concepts, a restaurant concept creation and management group that develops and manages proprietary brands and incubates emerging concepts.

Kei Concepts is a startup incubator at the crossroads of food, tech, and culture; AAPI-run, with women in key leadership roles. A thriving nest of fresh, electrifying ideas, devoted to pioneering and nurturing innovative culinary concepts, Kei Concepts began for a simple reason: to build something that our community can be proud of and forge a path ahead for the next generation.

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Kim Thúy Ly Thanh, CQ is a Vietnamese-born Canadian writer, whose debut novel Ru won the Governor General's Award for French-language fiction at the 2010 Governor General's Awards and has now been made into a movie.

A graduate in translation and law, Kim Thuy has worked as a seamstress, interpreter, lawyer, restaurant owner, media personality and television host. She lives in Montreal and devotes herself to writing.

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In 2012, Viet Pham was an Iron Chef America winner by beating Chef Bobby Flay. He also appeared on the second season of Extreme Chef. In 2018, he faced off against Chef Bobby Flay again on Beat Bobby Flay, securing a second victory against him.

Viet Pham attended culinary school in San Francisco but began his career in software. His first chef job was at Casey's Irish Pub Downtown where he was hired in 2006 upon graduating from Le Cordon Bleu. After working in San Francisco, owner Blake Ballard convinced Chef Pham to join Spark Restaurant and Lounge in Provo, Utah. In 2009, Pham opened his own restaurant, Forage, in Utah with co-Chef Bowman Brown. In 2011 Pham received the Best New Chef Award from Food & Wine Magazine. 

In 2016 Forage closed, Pretty Bird Hot Chicken. Starting in downtown Salt Lake City, the Pretty Bird brand has expanded to four locations as of the end of 2022. These include the original downtown location as well as Sugar House, Midvale, and Park City.

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Quang Do is the founder of Overseas Vietnamese (OV)—the global community of Vietnamese professionals. OV now counts more than 30k members and has chapters in over 40 cities around the globe.

Quang was born and raised in Germany. He currently resides in Singapore and works for Google.

OV: overseasvietnamese.com

Quang: quang.do

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Duyen Ha is a purpose-driven entrepreneur with an extensive background as a Michelin-starred trained chef. While working as a professional chef in some of France’s most prestigious restaurants, she's witnessed the incredible power of food and beverage to build relationships, enhance communal experiences, and extend the enjoyment of life’s most precious conversations and celebrations.

That realization sparked the deliciously simple idea of bringing the best and most exciting French wines to market. In 2020, Duyen founded BONDLE, a wine brand that specializes in selling premium French wines in the magnum format (1.5L).

Prior to launching BONDLE, Duyen attended Ferrandi Culinary School in Paris and graduated top of her class. Her culinary journey took her to work at restaurants such as Arpège (3 Michelin Stars), Mirazur (3 Michelin Stars) and Frenchie (1 Michelin Star), where she was exposed to some of Europe’s finest wine lists and professionals.

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Christina Bui is a strategic advisor and Business Development Executive with over 25 years’ experience of successfully launching new businesses and service lines, increasing sales revenue, expanding into new markets, leading management teams and board of directors, driving growth, leveraging a powerful network, and building effective partnerships.

Christina Bui’s breadth of experience spans a variety of industries, including technology, healthcare, engineering, construction, management consulting, venture capital, and private equity. Christina has served in senior business development executive roles at Johnson & Johnson, Parsons Corporation, Robert Half, Tatum, and Kranz, and is an advisor at several venture capital funds.

Christina is the founder of the Viet Leaders Forum

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Chantal Nong is currently Executive Vice President at DC Studios, where she oversees the creative development and production of DC-based feature films, television and animation. Her films include the upcoming SUPERMAN: LEGACY, as well as THE BATMAN, THE SUICIDE SQUAD, and WONDER WOMAN 1984. She previously supervised Warner Bros. Pictures releases, including CRAZY RICH ASIANS, THE MEG, THE INTERN, and 300: RISE OF AN EMPIRE. 

Before moving to Warner Bros., Chantal was a Vice President of Development at Légende Films (LA VIE EN ROSE) and worked at the William Morris Agency and Sidney Kimmel Entertainment. Chantal attended Yale University, where she received a Bachelor of Arts in Economics and International Studies, before attending the Peter Stark Producing Program at USC.

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Tue Nguyen is a Vietnamese chef and content creator (@twaydabae) who has quickly become a breakout star in the digital space featured in publications such as Bon Appetit, People, Vice, Elle, ABC News, LA Times, Paper Mag and many more. 

Her restaurant, ĐiĐi, opened July 2023 in West Hollywood in partnership with the world renowned Hospitality company, HWood Group. Her culinary skills have also been showcased through many sold-out popups that include Family Style Festival, Open Market, ComplexCon, Kogi Truck, Madame Vo in New York City, and more!

Tue can also be seen as the host of People Magazine's first digital food show, “Celeb Eats", and Buzzfeed Tasty's "Making it Big". There is a lot to be excited for next year, as Tue has a cookbook coming out with Simon & Schuster.

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Tu Lam is a decorated Green Beret with almost 23 years of U.S military service, an entrepreneur, and a developer of men. A Special Forces Uncle and Stepfather raised Tu; he ultimately made his way to serve within the U.S. Special Operations, deploying numerous times before retirement.

Tu is now the Founder and CEO of Ronin Tactics, Inc., where he teaches and develops tactical equipment for military, law enforcement, and civilians. Tu hosted “Knife or Death” on the History Channel and is also a key figure in Call of Duty as “Ronin", and he’s also featured in various magazines and articles.

Tu Lam enjoys traveling around the world with his wife of 22 years, to continue motivating others with his life experiences.

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JASON NGUYEN is a director, writer, and producer based in Los Angeles, CA with over 10 years experience in scripted, unscripted and branded content. He is a director of several original sketches and digital series that have amassed millions of views.

Jason is currently the Creative Director @ Will Smith’s Westbrook Media. He heads up some of Westbrook’s viral digital content for a variety of high- profile celebrity clients and brands.

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Cat Ly is a singer and actor. Her work in film includes Owl and the Sparrow, Journey From the Fall, and House Rules.

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Elizabeth Nguyen, MD was born and raised in Honolulu, Hawaii. Her parents were refugees from Vietnam who arrived in Honolulu in 1975 at the end of the Vietnam War. She received her BA from Stanford University in Human Biology, her MD from Northwestern University, and her Psychiatry Residency and Child Psychiatry Fellowship training at UC Davis.

She started her career in community mental health, with specific interests in cross-cultural psychiatry, the intersection of spirituality and mental health, and the healing power of water and the natural world. She is now in private practice in Davis, CA. You can learn more about her psychiatry practice at www.multidimensionalpsychiatry.com and her work with water at www.waterkeeperscommunity.com.

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Christina Le is a career U.S. diplomat with the Department of State and is currently the Political Section Chief at the U.S. Consulate General in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, overseeing a team that advises the Consul General in Ho Chi Minh City and the Embassy in Hanoi on political issues impacting the bilateral relationship spanning 33 provinces from central to southern Vietnam.

Her previous diplomatic assignments overseas have included Japan, Greece, and Mexico. Domestically, she has served in Washington, DC in the Bureau of Intelligence and Research and the Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs.

From 2015-2018, as the president of the Asian American Foreign Affairs Association, she led diversity and inclusion advocacy efforts within the Department of State and was honored in 2017 with the William R. Rivkin Award for Constructive Dissent. She was a 2017 National Security Fellow at the Center for a New American Security, a nonpartisan think tank.

Before joining the Department of State, she held research positions at a microfinance NGO and at the University of Chicago's Graduate School of Public Policy and was a Peace Corps Volunteer in Kyrgyzstan. She graduated from the University of Chicago. She speaks Vietnamese, Spanish, and Japanese; studied Kyrgyz; and received the AFSA Sinclaire Language Award for Greek.

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Sophie Tran + Jennifer Tran continue the legacy of The He Tre, a popular Vietnamese language children's education company their parents founded and operated in the 1990's.

Today, Sophie + Jennifer have their own YouTube channel called @mommyandmevietnamese where they teach children the basics of Vietnamese language.

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Stephanie Tran is currently an Associate Producer at Disney Television Animation, and the co-founder/co-leader of the AAPI employee affinity group TVAnimasians.

She has worked for various departments and companies: reality television with Mark Burnett Productions, feature development with Village Roadshow Pictures, talent representation at ICM Partners, business affairs and animation at DreamWorks Animation, animation television production at Warner Bros, animation feature production at Disney Toon Studios, and employee relations at The Walt Disney Studios.

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Crystal Bui has worked as a TV news reporter and journalist for six stations around the country, serving every region in the United States for about a decade: Hawaii, the Pacific Northwest, New England, New York City, the Midwest, and the South. 

During her career, Crystal led primetime evening newscasts, extensively covering: George Floyd’s murder in Minneapolis and the subsequent riots throughout the city; investigations into hate crimes in the wake of the deadly Atlanta spa shootings; the Aaron Hernandez double-murder trial and many big political races in the national spotlight, including Atlanta’s 2021 mayoral election and Georgia’s 2022 primary race. 

Crystal Bui is the author of “More To Tell” a memoir about the sexism and racism she faced as a female Asian news reporter in Minneapolis during the time of George Floyd’s murder. The book is available at  www.MoreToTellBook.com  and is now sold across online retailers.

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Vy Ngo is an Austin based visual artist, who draws influences from her life as a Vietnamese-American, a physician, a mother, and an activist. Born to refugee parents in rural Pennsylvania, her passion for the arts was overshadowed by cultural expectations, an interest in the sciences, and the desire to serve others. After establishing a career in medicine, Vy finally came back to her creative self and began painting in 2015.

Her prolific and dedicated studio practice has expanded from painting to 3-D sculptural paintings and site-specific installation work, using the various visual languages to best fit the narrative of her exhibitions. 

Vy Ngo has had several solo exhibitions and group shows in various public art spaces and galleries in Texas and across the country from California to Tennessee. Her work has been acquired by private and public permanent collections, such as Austin City Hall and Texas A&M Multicultural Center and has drawn attention from various publications and media, such as Tribeza, Austin Woman, PBS Arts in Context and listed as one of the “10 Contemporary Artists in Austin to Know” by Culture Trip.

Whether it be representational work, abstract paintings, or large-scale installations, Vy Ngo creates work and spaces for dialogue and introspection about identity, culture, political issues, memories, and the human experience.

 

Instagram @vjngo_art

Website: www.vyngostudio.com

 

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*** Special note: This episode with Andrew Phung was recorded before the July 14, 2023 American actors' union SAG-AFTRA strike. Run the Burbs is an ACTRA production, which is the Canadian acting union. The show is also written under the Writers Guild of Canada.

Andrew Phung is an award winning actor, improv comedian, emcee, and writer. His infectious and relatable personality has made him one of Canada's top comedic performers. His work on Kim's Convenience has earned him four Canadian Screen Awards (2017, 2018, 2020, and 2021) in the category of Best Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series.

Andrew's television and film credits include The Beaverton (2019), Events Transpiring (2021), Wynonna Earp (2020), and factual series The Canadian Improv Games (2020), where he served as the host, and won a Canadian Screen Award for Best Host - Digital Series.

He can also be heard on CBC Radio as a regular contributor to Now or Never, The Debaters, and Because News. In 2022, Andrew starred in the CBC television series Run the Burbs which he wrote, co-created and serves as Executive Producer.

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Dennis (Dizzy) Doan is a San Diego based tattoo artist, designer, philanthropist and author. During the pandemic he created the iconic digital painting "Model Minority©" depicting a woman wearing the Vietnamese conical hat, dawning a face mask with the words, "Hate is a virus." Doan’s painting was widely shared on the internet and used by the numerous Anti-Asian Hate protests that swept the nation.

These days, he is still deeply committed to his craft as a tattoo artist while building his non-profit, The Doan Foundation to empower teen creatives from marginalized communities throughout Southern California.

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