She sets the microphones on a kitchen table. One for her and one for him. Thuy Vo Dang then asks the questions. It takes only the first few minutes before Hai Dai Hoang stops to fight back tears. For ...
When Thuy Vo Dang’s Vietnamese-refugee family arrived in Santa Ana in the 1980s—after stops in Malaysia, the Philippines and Buffalo, New York—she learned that local whites had given a name to them, ...
As UC Irvine senior Jen Doan listened to former Vietnam refugee Jane Ho tell her story of surviving on a boat after the fall of Saigon, it became clear why Doan’s grandparents were so hesitant to ...
GARDEN GROVE, Calif.—When Thuy Vo Dang came to the U.S. as a young girl, her English took off. Her parents sent her to Vietnamese school on the weekends to learn her native language, but she ...
Thuy Vo Dang is the curator of the UC Irvine Libraries’ Southeast Asian Archive, co-author of the 2015 book Vietnamese in Orange County, and, as of today, the newest member of the John Wayne Airport ...