Hello! My name is Thao [rhymes with "now" and the "h" is silent]. I'm a Vietnamese refugee and professor at MiraCosta College. I earned a doctorate in Sociology from the University of Texas at Austin and have published in the areas of race, immigration, and Vietnamese American experiences in the South. I was an advisor and associate producer of "Seadrift", a 2019 documentary about the racial violence and KKK intimidation in the 1970s against Vietnamese Americans in a small Texas fishing town. I serve as Board President of the Vietnamese American Arts and Letters Association, the Board Chair of the North County San Diego Promise, and Board Chair of the Doan Foundation.