Ep.#81 English - Isabelle Thuy Pelaud - Co-Founder and Executive Director of DVAN

Isabelle Thuy Pelaud is the Co-Founder and Executive Director of the Diasporic Vietnamese Artists Network (DVAN), an organization that promotes Vietnamese cultural productions in the Diaspora (dvan.org), and a Professor in Asian American Studies at SF State University.   She is the author of This Is All I Choose To Tell: History and Hybridity in Vietnamese American Literature (2011) and the Co-Editor of Troubling Borders: An Anthology of Art and Literature by Southeast Asian Women in the Diaspora (2014).  She is writing her story when time permits. Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/the-vietnamese-with-kenneth-nguyen/donations Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & 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.