Friends of Hue Foundation Board Members

Friends of Hue Foundation Board Of Directors

Board Members

Jenny Do - Chairwoman

Jenny Do is a litigation attorney by day, engaged artist and philanthropist by night. Jenny Do was recognized as 2007 Woman of the Year, a prestigious award bestowed by the California Legislature of District 23. The state legislature identified her as one of those rare individuals who made a difference not only in her local community but much further beyond. Locally, Jenny founded the Green Rice Gallery, which provides a venue for Vietnamese American artists. She was the curator for many well-received exhibitions around the San Francisco and Greater Bay Area. These exhibitions are designed to promote Vietnamese American arts and culture, as well as to raise awareness on social issues that impede the advancement of the Vietnamese American community and other groups. Jenny has also sat on the City of San Jose’s Arts Commission. Jenny earned her Bachelor of Arts degree from San Jose State University and her law degree from Lincoln Law School. She is an adjunct instructor at San Jose City College and a regular contributor to the Viet Tribune newspaper. She received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the City of San Jose in 2007 and the unsolicited Belle Foundation grant in 2005. Jenny’s works and life story have been featured on the Oprah Winfrey show, Time-Warner Production and many other programs on national and local media. [1]

Dan Do - Board Member

Dan Do has been an active member in community engagement for years, in both his professional and personal career. In the 1980s, Dan Do was the Founder and Executive Director of Young Vietnamese in America, a leadership after-school program for Vietnamese American youth. Mr. Do launched his legal career handling criminal, personal injury, and family law matters. Since then, he has become an active member of the State Bar of California. At this time, Mr. Do and his partner have formed the Efficio Law Group in San Jose, CA. Mr. Do’s professional accomplishments aside, he is also an esteemed orator, working as a master of ceremonies for many events. Fluent in English, French and Vietnamese, he pursues poetry writing in his spare time. He intends to publish his works in the near future. [2]

Michael Lopez - Board Member

Michael Lopez’s professional experiences lie in the fields of business and computer management, both in the United States and abroad. Lopez began his career holding a variety of positions in the software industry, and then worked for Sourcelink.net as the Director of Software Development. After working as a freelance translator for the following few years, he founded e2f Translations in 2003. Academically, Lopez holds a Master of Science in Computer Science from the ENSEEIHT in Toulouse, France, and has experience teaching computer science in foreign universities, such as the KFUMP University in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia and Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok, Thailand. [3]

Linh Vu - Board Member

Linh Vu spent his entire 25-year career in the biotech industry working for Fortune 500 companies in diverse capacities as a scientist and business and financial executive. He was an adjunct faculty member for Ohlone College for seven years, teaching courses related to FDA regulation of drug manufacturing. He is a founding board member of Vietnam Ecology Foundation, an established nonprofit organization focuses on environmental improvement and conservation in Vietnam. [4]

Ai Vuong - Executive Director

Ai Vuong, who graduated from the University of Texas at Austin with a degree in Anthropology and Sociology and minor in French, came to know Friends of Hue through a volunteer program called Volunteers in Asia (VIA). As a Ford Foundation Community Fellow, Ai volunteered in Hue, Vietnam for two years at FHF’s Children’s Shelter, where she eventually served as the US Children’s Shelter Deputy Director. She also was the VIA Teach-in-Hue Program Coordinator, a cultural/language exchange program integrating English language teaching and introductions to nonprofits in Vietnam. She intends to pursue work in the public sector, combining her passions for youth empowerment, economic development, and the arts to give back to the community.

Ai just received her Master of Public Administration from New York University, with a focus on International Development. Now as ED of FHF, she hopes to lead FHF as a center for positive youth development, leadership training, critical service learning, and ultimately, sustainability.[5]

REFERENCES

  1. ↑ "Friends of Hue Foundation - Board of Directors". www.friendsofhue.org. Retrieved 2015-11-14.
  2. ↑ "Friends of Hue Foundation - Board of Directors". www.friendsofhue.org. Retrieved 2015-11-14.
  3. ↑ http://www.friendsofhue.org/directors.php
  4. ↑ http://www.friendsofhue.org/directors.php
  5. ↑ http://www.friendsofhue.org/directors.php

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