NANCY NGUYEN

Nancy Dung Nguyen (she/her) currently serves as the SEARR National Campaign Director. In addition, she is with VietLead as the Executive Director and one of its co-founders. VietLead empowers the community through youth empowerment and organizing through a lens of social justice and anti-violence, health promotion and navigation, civic engagement, and community building projects. She has 10+ years of experience as an organizer, non-profit leader in Philadelphia and Camden. She has served on the board of Freedom, Inc. a grassroots Southeast Asian organization from 2005-2007 and on the Advisory Board of 1Love Movement, a national organization working to end deportations in the Southeast community from 2012-2014. In 2014, she was presented with the Catherine Bachrach Award by the Philadelphia Coalition of Victim Advocacy, for significant contributions to the lives of victims in the City of Philadelphia. In 2015, Ms. Nguyen was presented the Women of Distinction Award by NOW (National Organization of Women), Philadelphia Chapter. In 2019, Ms. Nguyen was awarded the 2019 Trailblazer Award by Bread & Roses Community Fund. She served on the Philadelphia Mayor’s Asian American Commission and currently is a board member at the Philadelphia Area Cooperative Alliance. She continues to organize youths and her community towards a vision of a community free from all forms of violence.