Event
Asian America Across the Disciplines Spring Series 2021 presents Second Generation Asian Americans; Vietnamese Americans in conversation with Lan Dinh, VietLEAD Farm & Food Sovereignty Projects Director and Duong Ly, VietLead Youth Projects Director.
Lan Dinh is the Farm & Food Sovereignty Projects Director for VietLEAD. She is responsible for developing and delivering youth curriculum and program activities and building the existing community garden into a community food project. Lan has over eight years of experience teaching healthy cooking, nutrition, gardening, and food justice to youth, adults, and communities. Previously, she was an Assistant Farm Manager and Instructor at the University of California Santa Cruz’s Center for Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems and a Youth Organizer for the Urban Nutrition Initiative in Philadelphia. Ms. Dinh received her Bachelor’s Degree in Health and Societies with a concentration in International Health & Nutrition from the University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia, PA in 2011 and a Certificate in Ecological Horticulture from the UCSC Center for Agroecology & Sustainable Food Systems in October of 2013.
Dương Nghệ Lý Dương is a queer Chinese Vietnamese immigrant who has been working with youth since the summer of 2013. Dương graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 2015 with a Bachelor’s Degree in Sociology with a concentration on Structural Opportunities and Inequality, and a minor in Asian American Studies. Dương has received awards for his work in activism and community engagement as a high school and college student. Dương has experience working with youth from diverse racial and socioeconomic backgrounds. Currently, Dương oversees year-long programs that work with over 120 high school students each year, most of them low to no income, and from immigrant/refugee backgrounds in Philly.
VietLead is a grassroots community organization in Philadelphia and South Jersey that is creating a vision and strategy for community self-determination, social justice, and cultural resilience. We are staffed and led by community members with collectively over 25 years serving our community and are committed to working from love and solidarity. Our community programs include intergenerational farming, youth organizing, health navigation & healing, civic engagement and community defense. We do this through a Heal.Resist.Grow. framework that focuses a pathway to healing trauma in our communities, contesting for power to make systemic change, policy advocacy/campaign, and growing community-based solutions.
Hosted by Fariha Khan, ASAM Associate Director
ASAM 104-401Asian American Communities.
Please contact ASAM program assistant Anabel Bernal at anabelb@sas.upenn.edu for Zoom registration.