142 - Bích Ngọc Cao - Digital Marketing & Communications Executive

Bích Ngọc Cao is a digital marketing and communications executive whose career spans media organizations, tech startups, the music industry, government, and nonprofits.She serves as senior adviser, communications, in the Superintendent's office of Los Angeles Unified. She has enjoyed an unconventional path that includes stints at organizations and companies such as Define American, (RED), the Los Angeles Times, Harvest Records, Warner Bros. Records, and MySpace. A lifelong Angeleno, she is currently president of the Board of Library Commissioners for the city of Los Angeles and also serves on the board of the investigative journalism organization Mother Jones.As a teenager, Bích Ngọc was a lead plaintiff in the education equity lawsuit Williams v California. The landmark class-action case settled for $1 billion for public schools and resulted in legislation that required the state to provide basic necessities for students such as books, safe classrooms, and qualified teachers. | madcao.com | @madcao Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/the-vietnamese-with-kenneth-nguyen/donationsAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

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Being part of a culture of almost 100 million Vietnamese people living in the world today has its pain and challenges, but it comes with plenty of history, privileges and honors. Join Kenneth Nguyen as he spotlights Vietnamese excellence from around the world. Each episode explores the creative process of individuals shaping the diversity of what it means to be Vietnamese--as a local, born and raised, or as a third culture kid, and even the divisions that separate us politically and culturally. This show can take multiple directions, but what it will do is show Vietnamese from a transpacific lens, in all its facets and complexities.