Staff

Anh graduated summa cum laude from Bowdoin College with B.A. degree in chemistry and mathematics, and a minor in Economics. Post graduation, Anh spent two years working at Piper Jaffray in the firm’s healthcare investment banking group in New York. Subsequent to Piper Jaffray, Anh joined Tailwind Capital Partners, a middle-market private equity firm based in New York. Anh currently works at P2 Capital Partners, a New York-based hedge fund, as part of the firm’s investment team. Anh joined VietHope in early 2014 and now is the President of VietHope. 

Hien is an architect with a long time passion for designing and building sustainable communities. After almost a decade working in the US, she has returned to Vietnam to pursue her dream of developing sustainable housing for the Vietnamese middle class. Since 2016, as part of the Executive Committee of Viethope, Hien has been responsible for managing VietHope’s operation in the US, including revamping its new logo and website, and expanding its partner network in Vietnam.

Tung is currently working as a Software Engineer in Los Angeles, California. Previously, he had experience working in New York City and Silicon Valley, also as a software engineer. Tung has been volunteering for VietHope since 2018 and has been involved in the new website project, which launched in October 2019. Currently, Tung is overseeing VietHope technical projects, and making new improvements to the website. Tung graduated with Honors from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, majoring in Electrical Engineering in 2012.

Mai has been working at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research as a biostatistician since 2019 after working in the medical device company for 1.5 years. She helped VietHope with the Google fundraising campaign 2019 as a project manager and is looking forward to getting involved more with VietHope in the future. Mai received her B.S degree in math and statistics from University of Minnesota, and M.S degree in statistics from North Carolina State University.

Before taking the position of Senior Director of VietHope from 2017 until now, Dong Le has experienced various management roles since 2009 at VietHope as Volunteers, Assistant Director and Director. In addition, Dong was also a freshman student receiving VietHope USP scholarship in 2008 and initiated the Youth Workshop Program in 2015. Before working full time for VietHope, he graduated from HCM National University - University of Science and then worked at Viettel Group as a Software Quality Assurance Manager. Currently, he is primarily in charge of managing and developing VietHope's programs in Vietnam, managing the core team, and also assisting the Executive Director in managing external relations and other areas at VietHope.

Thanh began volunteering for VietHope in 2008 with USP’s application review process, then jumped to the very first Youth Development Summit in 2009 and continued volunteering as an organizing team member and leader in the next Summits. She also has experience working with other student-based and not-for-profit organizations. Thanh graduated from Foreign Trade University in Saigon in 2011 majoring Finance and Banking and is currently working as Marketing lead for Triumph International Vietnam.

Phong Nguyen has been in the field of development education since his first-year as a student at the University of Saigon. After graduating in 1997, he worked in many different fields: education, manufacturing, services, and advertising along with working as a volunteer for charities at home and abroad. In 2002, he became a volunteer for VietHope and in 2008, he was asked to serve as VietHope’s head representative in Vietnam, our only paid and full-time employee. Now he is an advisor for Vietnam team.

Phuong joined VietHope in Vietnam in 2006, and directs VietHope’s University Scholarship Program until 2017. In her role, she coordinates with universities, students, and volunteers in Vietnam and the US to select the final list of scholarship recipients from hundreds of applications each year. She also serves in other charity groups and has many experience in organizing charity activities. Phuong graduated from Saigon University of Economics in 2000 and works with Sales & Marketing & Purchasing. From 2018 she has become the advisor for USP team.

Y-Nhu Nguyen is based in Hanoi and began volunteering for VietHope in 2005. Y-Nhu worked on the core Vietnam team to hold the first VietHope’s Youth Summit Program in 2009. Currently, Y-Nhu coordinates the Public Relations and Fundraising team in Vietnam and supports paperwork for government-related matters. Nhu received her B.A. from the Diplomatic Academy of Vietnam. She currently works for Coca-Cola Beverages Vietnam as a Public Affairs and Communications Manager.

Ky has been with VietHope in Vietnam for more than 10 years with different roles. He was a facilitator for Summit on Communication module for 5 consecutive years. Now he is helping Vietnam team with new and improved Alumni Development Program. Ky received her B.A. from the Diplomatic Academy of Vietnam. He currently works for Coca-Cola Beverages Vietnam as a Communication Manager.

Ngoc My - a member of VN core team. My received VietHope scholarship in 2015 and became a volunteer of VietHope since that time. She graduated from Uinversity of Economics HCMC and now she is working as wage labor specialist at ATAD Steel Structure Corporation. She is currently in charge of Youth Workshop Program.

Cam Thao is currently a senior student of Informatic Technology of HCM National University - University of Science. She was born in the high land Daklak province and came all the way to Saigon to study in 2016 and received USP scholarship the same year before participating Youth Development Program in 2017. Now Thao leads University Scholarship Program for VietHope starting from 2019.

Ngoc is one of the outstanding students who was awarded USP Scholarship for her potentials in 2017 and selected to participate in YDP 2018 organized within 7-consecutive day in Can Gio, Saigon. After that, with “pay it forward” spirit, she volunteered for many different activities of VietHope, especially to be YDP 2019 leader and ADP assistant. Ngoc has just graduated from University of Economics HCMC majoring Foreign Trade. She is currently working at DKSH Vietnam in Consumer Goods field.

Thu Ha is a member of Vietnam core team from 2017. Hà received USP scholarship in 2014 when she was a freshman in HCM National University - University of Science. After graduation, she pursued the path of teaching mathematics by English for high school students. She is currently in charge of Alumni Development Program (ADP).

Lan-Anh is currently senior student at HCMC University of Sciences. She received USP scholarship in 2017 and participated in YDP program in 2018. After Summit, she took part in various programs such as YWP, MDP, USP and YDP as an organizing volunteer. Lan-Anh is now a leader of Merit Development Program (MDP) besides being a core team member.

Nhi is spending her fourth year at University of Medicine and Pharmacy HCMC. After she received USP scholarship in 2017, Nhi participated in Youth Development Program (YDP) in 2018. Since then, Nhi volunteered in various activites and programs for VietHope and just became newest core team member who leads the YDP this year.

Hue has always been an active volunteer of VietHope in Hue city since 2004. Hue helps VietHope to operate all programs in Hue city including USP, MDP, YDP and ADP. She is now working for Truong An primary school.

Man is currently senior student majoring Informatics Technology at University of Sciences, Hue University. Man participated in Youth Development Program (Summit) in 2018 and became a member of VietHope's F10 generation and moved on to support YWP, MDP and USP programs in Hue city. Man became our core team's only member in Hue in early 2020 and is in charge of all VietHope activities there.

Tien is currently a software engineer at Pinterest. Tien has been volunteering for VietHope since 2015 and been involved in many projects such as VietHope Annual Appreciation Party, staff retreats, and analyzing data. As a VP of VietHope, Tien focuses on organizing VietHope information and documents (both for US and VN operations) and pushes the effort for a new VietHope website. Tien received B.S from National University of Singapore, M.S from University of Washington, Seattle, and Ph.D. (Computer Science) from University of Minnesota, Twin Cities.

Minh has been volunteering for VietHope since 2016 and is currently working on a project to redesign VietHope’s logo and website. Her background as a designer, project manager, and analyst have come in handy for creating infographics, editing copy, and managing paid marketing promotions for VietHope.

She graduated from Yale University with a Bachelor’s of Arts in Architecture.

Duyên (Mary) Nguyễn is currently a senior quantitative researcher at Google. She leads donor relationship efforts and fundraising events for VietHope in the US. During her past 3 years with VietHope she has organized 3 donor appreciation parties and 3 retreats for the VietHope team in the Bay Area.

Hien began her professional career as a digital marketer, before her curiosity about web development gave her the tools to create digital experiences that are crafted to attract and convert audiences. Prior to joining Kiosk, Hien was an in-demand freelance developer, working for clients in retail, healthcare, nonprofits and other verticals. Before relocating to the San Francisco Bay Area, she worked as a developer and analyst at Randall-Reilly in Alabama. Hien earned her Masters in Global Marketing, Communications and Advertising at Emerson College. 

Brandon Nguyen began volunteering for VietHope in December 2019, helping with marketing materials such as translating Vietnamese students' thank you letters for donors and updating website content as well as managing donor materials and receipts. He is currently a freshman at UC Davis majoring in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology and interning under a thoracic oncology specialist at the UC Davis Medical Center working on clinical research.

Sinh is currently an undergraduate student, studying Environmental Studies at San Jose State University, and Business Administration at University of the People. As a student herself, she appreciates the privilege of having an education, and always wants to give back. Joining VietHope since Spring 2018, Sinh has helped with developing fundraising materials, including email templates and students' thank-you letters to donors. At the moment, she is working with her team on managing and developing our social media content and presence, as a way to help VietHope better connect with students and donors. 

Tinh is currently junior student majoring International Business at University of Economics HCMC. As an USP recipients in 2018 and F10 Summit participant the following year, Tinh continues to volunteer for VietHope as a member of social media team. In this position, Tinh takes part tin creating ideas for the content and contribute to the communication plan in order to bring the program closer to the students and to fulfill her love to community activities.

Tran has started her journey of volunteering for VietHope since 2020 when the Covid-19 rages on all over the world. Her main duty includes creating contents on VietHope Facebook fanpage and quarterly newsletters to VietHope stakesholders. Tran is spending her last year studying at University of Economics HCMC majoring Marketing.

Mai is a high school student in Hanoi and has become VietHope volunteer since July 2020. Mai is supporting VietHope on developing communication contents on VietHope's official Facebook page.

Tam is currently a Doctor of Pharmacy Candidate at the University of Minnesota. After graduating in May 2021, she will join the Clinical Development team at Allergan, an AbbVie Company in Irvine, California. Tam began volunteering for VietHope in 2020 and she is currently working in the Google Fundraising Campaign with Mai Duong. Tam is looking forward to getting involved more with VietHope activities and seeing how the organization grows in the future.