Committee | Advisory Board
AVA
is governed by a volunteer Board. With the assistance of volunteers
from the community, AVA has been successful in producing all
of its programs with almost no administrative overhead. To
date, one hundred percent of AVA's grant money has gone into
the programs it produced.
Mai
Bui | mai@vietarts.org
Chair
Person- joined 2002, San Jose, CA
Ms. Bui is responsible for leading and executing AVA's vision
and is dedicated to bring Vietnamese American art to the mainstream.
Ms. Bui is also on the Board of Cultural Initiatives of Silicon
Valley, www.ci-sv.org,
dedicated to quality arts education in our Bay Area public
schools and broad cultural participation. She is currently
a Marketing Programs Manager for Blue
Pumpkin, a leader in workforce optimization software,
in charge of market planning and communications for the US
and International. A graduate of Santa Clara University, she
has experience in sales, management and marketing with previous
companies like Fortis Investors, Quintus and Avaya. With an
affinity to Vietnamese and international art, she is related
to Phan Mai Truc a Vietnamese artist and professor at the
University de Beaux Arts in Saigon.
Hoa
Trinh Glassey
Co-Founder,
Treasurer and Arts Education - joined 1991, San Jose,
CA
Ms. Glassey provides assistance with all legal matters.
She also helps with fund-raising and Board Development. Ms.
Hoa Trinh Glassey, one of the founders of the Association
for Viet Arts, is an attorney in private practice in Milpitas,
California. She was the supervising attorney for Santa Clara
County Bar Association Law Foundation's Mental Health Advocacy
Project until 1998. In 1997, she was recognized by Mayor Susan
Hammer as one of the "Outstanding Women of Silicon Valley."
Ms. Glassey also provides pro bono services to low-income
clients through the Santa Clara County Pro Bono Project's
Lawyers in the Library Program.
Nora
Chau Nguyen
Boardmember, Secretary and Visual Arts - joined
1996, San Jose, CA
Ms. Nguyen assists with fundraising and coordinates visual
arts exhibitions. She has an M.A. in Art History from San
Jose State University and a B.A. in Art History from the University
of California, Berkeley. She is currently Development Associate
at the Community School of Music and Arts in Mountain View.
Maria
Nguyen
Boardmember, Community Outreach and Arts Education - joined
2003, Milpitas, CA
Ms. Nguyen is assisting with community outreach. Her area
of interests includes education, children, and promoting Vietnamese
language/culture to the mainstream. She holds a B.A. degree
in Business/Spanish. Her works involve job developing, translation,
and community referral services.
Uyen
Nguyen
Boardmember, Performing Arts and Literary - joined
2004, San Jose, CA
Ms. Nguyen is responsible for coordinating various literary
and art projects for AVA. Her professional career has included
work with several leading consulting and financial firms such
as Accenture, Inteliant and Golden West Financial Corp (World
Savings Bank). Her formal education consists of a BS at Syracuse
University with a major in Bioengineering. On top of pursuing
a Project Management and Systems Certifications at U.C. Berkeley,
she spends her spare time assisting various non-profit and
social organizations. She is a project manager and council
member for Hands On Bay Area (formerly known as Community
Impact), an officer for the Syracuse Alumni of Bay Area and
the recreational coordinator for The RollerBlading Club.
Q.
Thang Do|
thang@vietarts.org
Marketing Committee - joined 2003, Brisbane, CA
Q.Thang Do is a web/product consultant. His professional
career includes work with Gallup Polls, Charles Schwab, A
online, Circuit City, and many other various firms. But his
true passion is helping the Vietnamese Artists community.
He is the co-founder of United Vietnamese Americans (uvaus.com).
Besides spending his free time assisting bay area non-profits
such as Make A Wish, VAPA (Vietnamese American Professionals
Alliance), ACWP (Aids to Children Without Parents) and many
others, he loves to read about Vietnamese literature.
AnhViet
Nguyen
Boardmember, Community Festivals, Art Workshops
- joined 2000, San Jose, CA
Mr. Nguyen is assisting with administrative and project-related
matters. Mr. Nguyen received his MBA from the University of
Phoenix in July 2000. He graduated from the University of
California, Davis with a Bachelor's Degree in Biochemistry.
He is currently self-employed.
Linh
Chau
Boardmember - joined 2004, Belmont, CA
Mr. Chau is the Chief Operating Officer (COO) for Global Strategic
LLC, www.globalstrategicllc.com,
a comprehensive provider of equipment and aircraft lease financing
and advisory services primarily serving Fortune 500 companies.
As a member of the Global Strategic executive team, Mr. Chau
is responsible for planning, organizing, and controlling the
day-to-day operation. Mr. Chau is a graduate of University
of Central Florida, majoring in Computer Science and has held
various positions at Lockheed Martin and Oracle.
Man
Bui
Co-Founder, Advisory Board - joined 1991, San Jose,
CA
Mr. Bui is serving as advisor for all AVA projects. Mr. Bui
received a Master of Fine Arts degree in Visual Performance
Arts from San Jose State University in 1995. He also holds
a Bachelor of Arts in Mathematics and Computer Science from
San Jose State University. He is one of the founders of the
Association for Viet Arts.
Van
Pham Mai
Advisory Board - joined 2002, San Jose, CA
Ms. Pham Mai is a writer and performer who has extensive experience
in community-based theater work. She is co-founder and managing
director of San Khau Viet CALI. She holds a B.A. in Theater
with a Performing Arts concentration from the Cultural Theater
Art Institute in Saigon City, Vietnam and a B.S. in Business
Administration from San Jose State University. Ms. Pham Mai
is overseeing AVA's performing arts program.
Isabelle
Thuy Pelaud
Advisory Board - joined 2003, San Francisco, CA
Isabelle Thuy Pelaud is assistant professor in Asian American
Studies at San Francisco State University. Pelaud is specialized
in Vietnamese American literature and is co-director of the
Vietnamese American Studies Center at SFSU. As an organizer,
she actively promotes Vietnamese American cultural work. Her
essays and short stories have been published in Making More
Waves (1997), Tilting the Continent (2000), Vietnam Dialogue
Inside/Out (2001). Her academic work can be found in Mixed
Race Literature (2002), The New Face of Asian Pacific America
(2003) and Amerasia Journal (2003).
Binh
Danh
Advisory Board - joined 2004, San Jose, CA
Binh Danh has a BFA in Photography from San Jose State
University and is an MFA candidate at Stanford University.
He is well known for inventing a photographic technique in
which he uses photosynthesis to grow images in plant life,
creating chlorophyll prints. His work often addresses and
reflects his Vietnamese heritage and interest in natural science
and history. Danh has exhibited and lectured extensively in
regional and national venues, and has been featured on NPR
(National Public Radio).
Caroline
Kieu Linh Valverde
Advisory Board - joined 2004, Davis, CA
Caroline Kieu Linh Valverde is Assistant Professor of
Asian American Studies at University of California, Davis.
Her teaching and research interests include Southeast Asian
American history and contemporary issues, mixed race theory
and Transnationalism. Her most current publication looked
at Vietnamese transnational popular music. Her writings have
appeared in Asian American Popular Culture (2004), Amerasia
Journal (2003), Sum of Our Parts: Mixed Heritage Asian Americans
(2001), Journal of Asian American Studies (2001) and Racially
Mixed People in America (1992). She has also contributed to
the San Jose Mercury News (2000). She is the founder of Viet
Nam Women's Forum, a virtual community with over 300 women
globally (www.vnwomensforum.org).
Professor Valverde was a Rockefeller Fellow for Project Diaspora
at the University of Massachusetts, Boston, and a Fulbright
Fellow in Viet Nam. She is currently a Fellow at the Australian
National University researching on the Vietnamese Diaspora
and gender theory. Through her work and abroad residences
Professor Valverde has consistently advocated for Vietnamese
and Overseas Vietnamese arts.
Financial
Contributors to AVA
AVA gets funding from many sources, both public and private.
Some of AVA's funders include:
The
City of San Jose
The
California Arts Council 
The
Lila Wallace Reader's Digest Fund for Folk Culture
The
Arts Council of Santa Clara Country
The
San Jose Community Foundation
E-mail: info@vietarts.org
U.
S. Postal Mail: AVA, P. O. Box 90088, San Jose, CA 95109-3088
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