The Vietnamese with Kenneth Nguyen

Uyen Le is currently the chef owner of Bé Ù in Los Angeles. Bé Ù opened in February 2021 and is a reflection of Chef-Owner Uyen Le's Vietnamese heritage and Southern California upbringing. It stands as a safe place for people from diverse backgrounds to work and hone their craft. Bé Ù seeks to make fresh and flavorful food at affordable prices while creating a safe, supportive, and professionally-rewarding environment for its team members.Before coming into the LA food scene, Uyen was the Research Director and Partnerships Director at the UCLA California Construction Academy (CCA) for 4 years. The CCA is a project of the UCLA Center for Labor Research and Education. Uyen led the Construction Sector Intermediary Program, which seeks to create quality construction career opportunities by building innovative and diverse partnerships in the construction industry. Uyen also served as a Dan Than fellow for the National Alliance of Vietnamese American Service Agencies (NAVASA), where she worked as a community organizer and economic development specialist in the Gulf Coast after Hurricane Katrina. In her volunteer time, Uyen is the co-founder and a planning committee member for the HBT School for Organizing. The HBT School for Organizing works with Vietnamese American youth to develop community organizing skills and to build their capacities to engage in progressive political action. Uyen holds a Bachelor’s degree in Political Science from the University of California, Berkeley. She also holds a Master in City Planning degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/the-vietnamese-with-kenneth-nguyen/donationsAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

The Ravenous Couple is Hong and Kim. They believe good food and cooking brings friends, family, and loves ones together—and keeps them together, hence their motto, Cooking Life Together. Raised in first generation immigrant Vietnamese-American families in opposite parts of the country, Hong and Kim both were nurtured with a love for Vietnamese heritage and cuisine.Their mission is to show you how authentic Vietnamese food is simple, fresh, and delicious. The Ravenous Couple shares recipes that reflects their cultural heritage as well as non-Vietnamese dishes, experimenting with new inspirations from around the world. Their love of good food knows no bounds and their appetite is insatiable. We hope you join them on their journey of cooking life together!https://theravenouscouple.com/Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/the-vietnamese-with-kenneth-nguyen/donationsAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Dan Nguyen is a Vietnamese American artist, creative director and music producer / DJ. Born and raised in Southern California and Saigon Vietnam, the multi-disciplinary artist grew updrawing surreal worlds influenced by a myriad of concepts, such as 70s LP artwork, obscure zines, nostalgic rave, graffiti, and US Asian culture.Continually pushing ideas and honing crafts, Dan maintains a delicate balance between personal and client based creative projects. He releases records and performs live as Demonslayer, curates and produces events and happenings all over the globe, designs and paints murals, daily involvement in multitude of tasks grounded in ideology and creation.Dan’s music and production journey has taken him on stage twice at Coachella, in addition to touring and jamming all over the world. His artwork continues to be adorned internationally on products, apparel, gallery walls and buildings, etc. His work, in its many forms, promotes self awareness, unlocking hidden potential and uplifting various marginalized communities.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/the-vietnamese-with-kenneth-nguyen/donationsAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Oanh Thu Thi Ly was born in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. She immigrated to America as a boat refugee and grew up in Houston, Texas. She studied playwriting at the University of Texas at Austin where she was a recipient of a James Michener Playwriting Fellowship.She started her TV writing career on the hit CBS crime show  Criminal Minds.  Other broadcast credits include the Bad Robot/NBC show Revolution, The Messengers for CW,  Black Box for ABC, and  The Catch for Shondaland/ABC.  Streaming credits include Sweet Tooth and the entire run ofThe Chilling Adventures of Sabrina. Currently, she is writing a TV pilot based on an Archie Comics for Warner Brothers Studios with fellow Vietnamese Texan, Viet Nguyen. She mentors young writers at the Blank Theatre Young Playwrights Festival, where she got her start in Los Angeles over twenty years ago.She lives in Culver City with her husband, Ron, and daughter, Linh. Her favorite Vietnamese foods are banh xeo, che ba mau, che troi nuoc, banh cuon and bun bo hue.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/the-vietnamese-with-kenneth-nguyen/donationsAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Đoan Hoàng is a Vietnamese-American documentary film director, producer, editor, and writer. She directed and produced the 2007 documentary Oh, Saigon about her family, after leaving Vietnam on the last civilian helicopter as Saigon fell.The documentary won several awards at film festivals and was broadcast on PBS from 2008 to 2012. Hoang was selected to be a delegate to Spain for the American Documentary Showcase.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/the-vietnamese-with-kenneth-nguyen/donationsAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Anh Hong Rucker is a cloud security architect and senior cybersecurity engineer at JPL NASA in Pasadena, California.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/the-vietnamese-with-kenneth-nguyen/donationsAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Tony Vu, founder of Flint Social Club, has been invested in building community and countering the toxic culture of the food world since his start in the industry. As chef/owner of noodle stall MaMang in the Flint Farmers’ Market, he’s committed to paying living wages to his employees and fostering a safe and supportive work culture. As executive chef/partner of fast casual restaurant The Good Bowl in Traverse City, he’s built upon these values and expanded them to create a business model that gives back to the community. The Good Bowl’s dollar per bowl donation model has raised and donated over $100,000 to mostly local charities in 3 years of operation. Tony was a fellow of the 2020 Detroit Food Lab Fellowship for Change in Food and Labor, which gathered food justice leaders from around the country and held conversations that planted the seeds for a radical new food system based in equity, possibility, power, and dignity for all. His work and advocacy for Flint has been featured in numerous media outlets including The Food Network, Vice Magazine, and the Detroit Free Press; and he was profiled in the Square documentary Forged in Flint. For his work with Flint Social Club, Tony was recognized as one of the most important entrepreneurs of the past decade by Inc Magazine alongside luminaries such as Elon Musk and Hamdi Ulukaya. Tony brings a wealth of real world experience in building food businesses from the ground up, having gotten his start with popups that quickly grew into the food truck Wraps n’ Rolls.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/the-vietnamese-with-kenneth-nguyen/donationsAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

A diplomat for nearly thirty years, Ted Osius served from 2014 to 2017 as U.S. ambassador to Vietnam, a country he has loved since serving there in the 1990s, when he helped open the U.S. Consulate General in Ho Chi Minh City and was one of the first U.S. diplomats at the U.S. Embassy in Hanoi. Leading a mission team of 900, Ambassador Osius devised and implemented strategies to deepen security ties, sign tens of billions of dollars’ worth of commercial deals, expand educational exchange, conclude agreements on trade, law enforcement, environmental protection, and address honestly a difficult past. Ambassador Osius’ leadership helped bring about a positive transformation in U.S.-Vietnam relations.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/the-vietnamese-with-kenneth-nguyen/donationsAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Bryan Pham is the founder of Asian Hustle Network [AHN], Crushing it in Real Estate [CIIRE], HateIsAVirus, and a venture partner at Outlier Fund. Asian Hustle Network is a global online and offline super connector for diasporic Asians crafting creative and entrepreneurial roads to success.Bryan and his co-founder, Maggie Chui, also hosts the Asian Hustle Network Podcast which brings on community leaders and AAPI entrepreneurs to inspire and share their knowledge to provide the foundation for future generations to succeed. Outside of AHN, Bryan is the Director of Strategic Partnerships at StartUpGrind, Berkeley that brings together an ecosystem of VCs, angel investors, and aspiring entrepreneurs. He is also an active angel investor and real estate investor and has been featured on Bloomberg, Business Insider, NextShark CGTV, LA Times, and VoyageLA.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/the-vietnamese-with-kenneth-nguyen/donationsAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

2022 Grammy nominated Vietnamese American singer, multimedia artist and producer, modern-day Renaissance woman, and vocal powerhouse Sangeeta Kaur (Teresa Mai) is a singular talent.Sangeeta’s body of work is both cinematic in scope and spans a wide range of genres such as Classical, New Age, Contemporary and Spiritual. Sangeeta earned a Bachelor of Music degree in Opera Performance from the Bob Cole Music Conservatory at California State University, Long Beach; and a Masters of Music in Vocal Performance from the Boston Conservatory at Berklee.While traveling the world as a classical vocalist, Sangeeta was introduced to the power of spiritual mantra as well as the discipline of yogic practices which has greatly influenced her musical expression. As she says, “My life’s mission is to create and share music that brings joy and positive transformation to the listener.”So far she has released five award-winning albums: Niguma, Ascension, Mirrors, Compassion and Illuminance. She is the first Vietnamese American singer to received a Grammy nomination in the category Best Classical Solo Vocal Album for her performance on the album MYTHOLOGIES composed by the award winning composer, Danaë Vlasse.On September 19, 2021 Sangeeta had her PBS debut on Season 10 of the award winning show Front and Center. Her one hour show “Sangeeta Kaur and Friends” on Front and Center features some of the most sought out artists and musicians such as world renown ukulele master Jake Shimabukuro, violinist Caroline Campbell, guitarist Laurence Juber and many others. The show will continue to run for 12 months nationwide.In 2016, she wrote, produced and premiered the ambitious and acclaimed mantra opera, Niguma, at the Broad Stage in Los Angeles. The production included yoga inspired modern dance choreographed by the world renown choreographer Talia Favia and visual content created by the cutting edge production company FRAMEWORX LA.Her growing list of additional collaborations include work with the rock and roll legend Jon Anderson of the band Yes, noteworthy pop producer Narada Michael Walden, 2X Grammy winning New Age composer Peter Kater, Stewart Copland, Grammy winning singer Hila Plitmann, Grammy nominated engineer Gerhard Joost, Grammy winner Ricky Kej, award winning composer and producer Nicholas Neidhardt, and more.Sangeeta is also the owner of the recording studio, Studio Hill in Austin, Texas with Gerhard Joost who she has been working with for over 6 years as her Chief Engineer. Sangeeta brings new meaning to the world of music not only with her innovative live productions and music but also with her highly sensitive awareness of how sound can impact and transform the human spirit.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/the-vietnamese-with-kenneth-nguyen/donationsAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy