The Vietnamese with Kenneth Nguyen 127 - Dr. Tung Nguyen - PIVOT Founder and President
Dr. Tung Nguyen is Chair of AAPI Victory Alliance and President of PIVOT-The Progressive Vietnamese American Organization, both 501c4 organizations dedicated to the AAPI progressive movement. He is also a pioneer in Asian American health research, a practicing primary care physician, and a professor of medicine at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF).
Dr. Nguyen served as a Commissioner on President Obama’s Advisory Commission on AAPIs from 2011 to 2014, and as the Chair of the Commission from 2014- 2017. He led the Commission in the first massive resignation from the Trump Administration after it implemented the Muslim ban in 2017.
He is also a co-founder and serves on the board of AAPI Victory Fund. Dr. Nguyen received his B.A. in Philosophy from Harvard College and his M.D. from Stanford University School of Medicine.
Tung Nguyen
President, PIVOT-The Progressive Vietnamese American Organization
Twitter: @pivotorg
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