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Lynn Huynh:

Lynn migrated to the United States in 1983 from My Tho, Vietnam. After graduating from Boston Latin School in 1999, she attended Harvard College, majoring in chemistry. In college Lynn directed the Hepatitis B Boston Initiative and the Spanish Acquisition Beginning In Elementary School. In 2001-2002 she served as co-president of the Harvard Vietnamese Association. She spent 2004 in Vietnam on a Fulbright fellowship, researching on hepatitis B and working to develop new projects for VietHope. Lynn is currently pursuing an MBA/MPH at Johns Hopkins University.

Nam Tran Nguyen:

Nam Tran received her BA from Columbia University and spent a year at the London School of Economics. In 2001, she was in Vietnam as a Fulbright Fellow, conducting research on the financial systems of Vietnam. While in Vietnam, she was associated with the Hanoi School of Business and taught a class on economics to talented high school students. Following her year as a Fulbright Fellow, Nam Tran enrolled at the Harvard School of Business, where she served as the Co-Chair to the Harvard International Development Conference. Nam Tran is currently working in biotechnology in San Francisco, California.

Oanh Nguyen:

Oanh arrived in the US in 1997. In 2005 she graduated from Harvard College with a degree in biology. While in college, she served as co-president of the Harvard Vietnamese Association in 2003-2004 and ran the Boston Vietnamese Reading Club for two years. In the summer of 2003 Oanh interned at the Joint United Nations Program on HIV/AIDS office in Ha Noi, Vietnam. She then worked at the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights Regional Office in Bangkok, Thailand in 2004. Oanh is currently pursuing an MPH degree in Epidemiology/International Health at the University of Michigan School of Public Health.

Hansel Pham:

Hansel graduated from Harvard College, with a degree in economics and East Asian studies, in 1998 and Harvard Law School in 2003. In the summer of 1997, he worked as a foreign service intern in the U.S. Embassy in Hanoi, Vietnam. He is currently practicing international trade law at White & Case LLP in Washington, D.C.