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'''Tram Quang Nguyen''' is a social justice activist and a Project Advisor for the [[Institute for Southern Studies]]. | '''Tram Quang Nguyen''' is a social justice activist and a Project Advisor for the [[Institute for Southern Studies]]. | ||
Revision as of 17:18, 6 November 2015
Template:TOCnestleft Tram Quang Nguyen is a social justice activist and a Project Advisor for the Institute for Southern Studies.
Nguyen is the media and development coordinator at the California Reinvestment Coalition.[1]
She is a writer and editor from Southern California and Vietnam. She is the executive editor of ColorLines, a magazine in Oakland. Nguyen has contributed to Pacific Ties newsmagazine, and was part of the new Gidra magazine collective. She graduated from UCLA in 1996.[2]
Tram joined New Virginia Majority in 2008. Following the September 11th attacks on the World Trade Center, she helped fight for federal funding for a health treatment program to address the unmet physical and mental needs of rescue and recovery workers at Ground Zero. In 2005, Tram traveled to the Gulf Coast to organize the 30,000+ Vietnamese immigrants whose lives were devastated by Hurricane Katrina. For over 2 years, she directed a recovery program that assisted over 3,000 families by providing cultural and language-appropriate services, and she advocated for the sustainable redevelopment of immigrant communities and businesses in New Orleans, LA; Biloxi, MS; and Bayou La Batre, AL. Tram is an alumna of Barnard College, Columbia University and was a 2010 Lead the Way Fellow at the NYU Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service.[3]
Institute for Southern Studies Project Advisors
The following members served as Project Advisors at the Institute in December 2011:[4]
- Joe Atkins, Professor, University of Mississippi
- Julian Bond, Chair, NAACP
- Steve Bradberry, Lead Organizer, New Orleans ACORN
- Carlos Guerra, Columnist, San Antonio Express-News
- Pronita Gupta
- Bob Hall, Co-Director, Democracy North Carolina
- Jim Hightower, Author and radio host
- Naomi Klein, Syndicated columnist and author, No Logo
- Darryl Malek-Wiley, Louisiana Environmental Justice Organizer, Sierra Club
- Sangita Nayak, Policy/Communications Director, Praxis Project
- Angie Newsome, Reporter, Asheville Citizen-Times
- Tram Nguyen, Executive Editor, ColorLines
- William Quigley, Professor, Loyola University New Orleans Law School and Director, Poverty Law Clinic
- Lisa Seitz Gruwell, Political Director, Skyline Public Works
References
- ↑ bio from the Huffington Post
- ↑ Snapshots of Asian America, bio, accessed Jan.11, 2013
- ↑ http://newvirginiamajority.org/about/staff NVB staff, accessed November 2015]
- ↑ ISS board members