The Vietnamese with Kenneth Nguyen

Anh Do is the community engagement editor at the Los Angeles Times, working across the newsroom to connect with readers and helping to deepen relationship with audiences.Earlier, she spent 11 years in Metro covering Asian American issues and general assignments. A second-generation journalist, she has worked at the Seattle Times, the Orange County Register and Nguoi Viet Daily News.Her writing on culture and trauma has won awards from Columbia University and the Asian American Journalists Assn. She received Yale’s Poynter Fellowship in Journalism, and in 2016, was part of The Times team that won a Pulitzer Prize for breaking news coverage of the San Bernardino terrorist attacks.Born in Saigon, Do is a graduate of USC with degrees in journalism and English. Apart from words, she’s passionate about all things canine, spending 28 years supporting dog rescue around the globe.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/the-vietnamese-with-kenneth-nguyen/donationsAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Jonathan Tran Pham is the Founder & CEO at Reflect, an online mental health therapy portal.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/the-vietnamese-with-kenneth-nguyen/donationsAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Andrew Ly founded Sugar Bowl Bakery in 1984 with his four brothers, and became President and Chief Executive Office of Ly Brothers Corporation in 1993, a parent company of Sugar Bowl Bakery.Currently, Sugar Bowl Bakery is still family-owned. It employs a few hundred employees making signature Brownie Bites, Palmiers, Madeleines, Duet Bites, and Apple Fritters, as well as seasonal varieties like Pumpkin Spice Madeleines and Peppermint Duet Bites. The company sells to retailers like Walmart, Sprouts and Costco across the US and also distributes around the world.Sugar Bowl Bakery operates two plants - one in Hayward, California, and one in Tucker, Georgia.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/the-vietnamese-with-kenneth-nguyen/donationsAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Maura Nguyen Donohue has been making experimental performance works in NYC for 20 years. Her work has been produced by Dance Theater Workshop (now New York Live Arts), Roulette, Danspace Project, Performance Space 122, La Mama, The Asia Society, Mulberry St. Theater, the West End Theater, and has toured across the US and to Europe and Asia.She is an Associate Professor of Dance at Hunter College/CUNY, Director of MFA and faculty fellow for the Roosevelt House Public Policy Institute. As a member of La Mama's Great Jones Rep since 1997, she has toured across Europe and Asia. From '99-04, as artistic advisor for DTW’s Mekong Project, she facilitated residencies in the US and SE Asia.Her essay "Ambivalent Selves: The Asian Female Body in American Concert Dance" was published in Contemporary Directions in Asian American Dance and she writes for Culturebot. Prior to serving on MR's Board, she served on its Artist Advisory Council.She also serves on the Bessies Committee and collaborates with Perry Yung on the ongoing durational performance of parenting 2 (slightly) smaller humans.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/the-vietnamese-with-kenneth-nguyen/donationsAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Daniel Nguyen is the founder and master distiller of Song Cai Gin. Sông Cái is a first-of-its-kind Vietnamese distillery bottling the taste of Việt Nam’s biodiverse terroir through gins and other spirits. Founded by Vietnamese-American sustainable agriculture visionary Daniel Nguyen, Sông Cái sources botanicals exclusively from long-standing farming and foraging H’mong, Red Dzao, and Kinh families.Sông Cái invests back into its partner rural communities through paying fair pricing for botanicals, funding reforestation programs, heirloom botanical preservation and propagation efforts, educational assistance for communities, and shared farming equipment and processing facilities.Sông Cái Distillery’s spirits are distilled in hand-hammered direct-fired copper alembic pot stills. The brand’s inaugural Việt Nam Dry Gin has earned accolades for its reimagination of the dry gin category by using 16 heirloom Vietnamese ingredients like green turmeric, jungle pepper, black cardamom, and heirloom pomelo.The name Sông Cái translates to “Mother River,” homage to the cradle of Vietnamese civilization (a concept found universal in Việt Nam) as well as to the distinctly Vietnamese spiritual relationship to the land: that all things come from and are interwoven with mother nature.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/the-vietnamese-with-kenneth-nguyen/donationsAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai is an award-winning Vietnamese poet and novelist. She is the author of twelve books of poetry, fiction and non-fiction in Vietnamese and English.Her latest novel is Dust Child, a story about family secrets, hidden trauma, and the overriding power of forgiveness, set during the war and in present-day Việt Nam.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/the-vietnamese-with-kenneth-nguyen/donationsAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Quyen Ngo is an actor, Audie-nominated audiobook narrator, and coach based in Los Angeles, CA.After 18 years of training groups in capacity building and communication, she now also coaches and consults with individuals. She discusses the politics of symbols, meaning-making, and representation.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/the-vietnamese-with-kenneth-nguyen/donationsAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Jackson Nguyen is a 7-time Emmy award-winning producer, director and showrunner with over 20 years of experience in unscripted television. Nguyen has produced in multiple genres across the television landscape, ranging from hit sports shows including HBO’s 24/7 and The Olympics, to true crime specials and social change programming.Other credits include American Gangster and Finding Justice for (BET), It Was Him: The Many Murders Of Ed Edwards (Paramount), NFL Pro Bowl (ESPN), and The Price Of Duty (Oxygen). Nguyen is also currently producing a $65 million scripted feature called The Deliverance, directed by Lee Daniels for Netflix.  Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/the-vietnamese-with-kenneth-nguyen/donationsAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Anne Oliver is the founder and CEO of House of M Beauty, a skincare company infused with saffron, and crafted with quality ingredients.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/the-vietnamese-with-kenneth-nguyen/donationsAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Cuong Pham founded RED BOAT fish sauce in 2011 after working for decades as an Apple engineer.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/the-vietnamese-with-kenneth-nguyen/donationsAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy