Anhlan P. Nguyen and Quyen N. Vuong selected as Appointee for Member, Board of Directors of the Vietnam Education Foundation


Excerpt from The White House website.

President Obama Announces More Key Administration Posts
http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2012/05/17/president-obama-announces-more-key-administration-posts

• Anhlan P. Nguyen – Member, Board of Directors of the Vietnam Education Foundation
• Quyen N. Vuong – Member, Board of Directors of the Vietnam Education Foundation

Anhlan P. Nguyen, Appointee for Member, Board of Directors of the Vietnam Education Foundation
Anhlan P. Nguyen is currently an IT project portfolio manager at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center and Chair of the Board of Directors for the Vietnamese Culture and Science Association. In 1998, Ms. Nguyen established the National Youth Leadership Development Camp in 1998, and in 1990 she helped found the Vietnamese Youth Center of Toronto. Ms. Nguyen won the Women’s Leadership Empowerment Award by the Texas Women Empowerment Foundation in 2011 and was named one of the “Top 25 Women of Houston” by Comerica Bank and the Steed Society in 2010 for her leadership and community involvement. In addition, she won the Outstanding Community Leader Award from the Youth Leadership Council of Houston in 2004 and was selected as one of five outstanding young Houstonians by the Junior Chamber of Commerce in 2000. Ms. Nguyen has a B.S. and an M.S. in Computer Science from the University of Toronto, Canada.

Quyen N. Vuong, Appointee for Member, Board of Directors of the Vietnam Education Foundation
Quyen N. Vuong is the Executive Director of the International Children Assistance Network in San Jose, CA, an organization she co-founded in 2000. She is also a board member of the Pacific Links Foundation, an organization she co-founded in 2001, and a founding member of the Vietnamese American Non-Governmental Network, created in 2004. Ms. Vuong serves on the Board of Directors of the Santa Clara Family Health Foundation, the Community Advisory Committee for San Jose Children’s Discovery Museum, and the Advisory Board for the Asian American Native American Pacific Islander Serving Institution for Mission College. She received a Fulbright in 1989 and worked with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees in Hong Kong. Ms. Vuong holds a B.A. in Economics from Yale University, and an M.B.A. from the Stanford Graduate School of Business.


BPSOS received community grant by proceeds from the Komen Global Race for the Cure of Susan G. Komen for the Cure(R)


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Pictures of Buddha’s Birthday at Giac Hoang Temple


2012 Le Phat Dan @ Giac Hoang Temple -DC

Courtesy of Crystal Nguyen


Lawmaker forces official to meet with wife of American imprisoned in Vietnam during hearing


Excerpt from a blog section of The Hill website.

“The State Department’s top human rights official was forced to go off script and meet with the wife of an American citizen imprisoned in Vietnam during a contentious human rights hearing Tuesday.”, from
http://thehill.com/blogs/global-affairs/human-rights/227439-lawmaker-forces-administration-official-to-meet-with-wife-of-american-imprisoned-in-vietnam-during-contentious-hearing