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Tiffany Chan Strategist, Artist, Community Builder Tiffany didn't set out to build a creative ecosystem. She set out with a question: What grows when we create together? It turns out that everything is interconnected. ... She grew up a Texan and the eldest daughter of Hong Kong immigrants. Summers
Lê Nguyên, Founder: Viet Delish Box (In Vietnamese naming order, Lê is her family name.) Nguyên was thirteen when she and her brother left Lăng Cô— a small coastal town tucked between mountains and sea in Central Việt Nam — and moved to Đà Nẵng for school. Lăng Cô didn'
Hannah Foy Founder & Owner, Lau Lau It was 2020. Minneapolis. The pandemic had already taken her job and her husband's. Then George Floyd was killed. The streets filled. And Hannah — already experiencing the actions of racism — felt the weight of two things happening at once: grief and
By Phu Trinh April 29, 2026 Half a century ago this month, Saigon fell. The Vietnam War ended. And for millions of Vietnamese, Laotian and Cambodian people, the life they had known ended too. Families split across oceans. Entire communities rebuilt in cities they hadn't heard of six
Bảo Anh, Founder: Đậm Coffee Bar (In Vietnamese naming order, Bảo is his family name.) “You’re going to forget Việt Nam.” Anh was eleven when he left Việt Nam in 2006. His family came from Đà Lạt, a place known for its mountains, cool air, and coffee. In the