Irene Van is a queer, non-binary performing artist, facilitator, and drama therapist living in their hometown of San Jose. They have previously performed with 06 Ensemble and Bad Repertory Theatre. They co-founded the Viet Healing Network to bring together healing and social justice for the Vietnamese community. Currently, they are a bilingual Vietnamese therapist serving youth and families in the Bay Area and a workshop facilitator for various community organizations and college campuses. Through the performing arts, therapy, and social justice, Irene is passionate about creating spaces for BIPOC to heal from systems of oppression and intergenerational traumas.

Jean (they/them) is a non-binary artist, raised in Little Saigon in Westminster Nam Cali and now living in sunny San Leandro. As a self-taught painter, they are interested in portraiture, working in both digital and oils, as a way to share stories and lives of people of color.

Jessie is a queer Vietnamese creative currently based in Oakland, unceded Lisjan (Ohlone) Territory. They are one-half of Little Window, an evolving food project they run with their Mother, Hoang ~ together, sharing diasporic Vietnamese cooking that conjures personal memories of home and comfort. Jessie is passionate about the heart-centered experiences of food as ongoing opportunities for awareness, connection, and care.

phibi tran (they/them) is a bisexual, non-binary diasporic Vietnamese person in America. They will be graduating this May 2021 from UC Berkeley with a degree in Cognitive Science & Asian American and Asian Diaspora Studies. They have been involved with queer and transgender Asian Pacific Islander organizing locally in the Bay Area for the past few years. In their free time, they enjoy making memes, experimenting with cooking, and ribbon dancing. Their future career goal is to become a licensed professional clinical counselor and do work with LGBTQ+ and API communities within their local community of San Diego.

Sal Tran is a queer Vietnamese photographer, filmmaker, and touring speaker based in the San Francisco Bay Area. They are one of the co-founders of SunKissed Productions - an independent queer Asian film collective. Sal’s work is rooted within the power of storytelling in film, visual and performative art. They focus on mental health advocacy work within queer trans Asian Pacific Islander (QTAPI) communities. Their work has been featured in UC Berkeley's Queer & Asian Conference, National Alliance for Mental Illness (NAMI), Seattle Transgender Film Festival, National Queer Asian Pacific Islander Alliance (NQAPIA) Conference, NYC Queer Asian Short Films, As[I]Am Magazine, UC Santa Barbara - Queer Trans People of Color Conference and many more.

Tracy Nguyen was born and raised in San Jose, California. Growing up with refugee parents from Vietnam largely defines who she is: a driven community organizer with a creative, entrepreneurial spirit. For over a decade, Tracy has worked within the nonprofit sector to uplift the voices and power of refugees, immigrants, workers, women, youth, LGBTQ community, and incarcerated individuals. Tracy just joined the APIQWTC scholarship committee this past year. She loves to tell stories with film and graphic facilitation.

Trang Sáng Tạo, is a child of the moon/ descendant of dragon and fairy/ grandchild of legendary turtle, sharing their creative journey towards self and collective liberation. They co-founded qtviet cafe collective in 2016 with the same intention as today's showcase- a platform for them to share their truth in community.

Trang Sáng Tạo, là con của mặt trăng/ nối dõi tông đường của rồng và tiên/ cháu của cụ rùa huyền thoại, chia sẻ hành trình hướng tới tự do cá nhân và tập thể. Cậu ta đồng sáng lập QTViet Cafe Collective năm 2016 với mục đích tương tự như hôm nay một nơi chia sẻ sự thật của mình trong cộng đồng

Hi everyone, my name is Ngọc Anh last name Hà (chanh/chị/they/she). I’m very happy to be a part of this qtviet showcase! i grew up on ohlone land going back and forth from cupertino to west to east san jose.~ i’m turning 30 this year and am looking for tips on how to turn 30. I’ve also been pursuing filmmaking, and more recently acting, in los angeles for the last four years and recently (finally) spoke a line in hbo’s show genera+ion. currently i’m trying to figure out how to heal myself as well as wut the next steps in life r. I’m proud to have worked on meaningful projects such as sensitive, xanh, hoài (ongoing/memory), clamdog, + all about the ex. I’m always down to talk about qtbipoc + api + mental health issues. ~ thank u to all the beautiful spirits that have uplifted me in life

+++ to the rest: reach out to meeeee ~~~~

youtube: @angocanhha \ ig: @angocanhha / email: angocanhha@gmail.com

Nguyễn (Tố Tồ) Total (chanh/em/they/them) is a second generation việt kiều, nonbinary, jade of all trades; they are an engineer, SJSU graduate student, social justice organizer, resource hub, lead singer of INNOVIỆT (ig: @innovietmusic), a trained latin dancer. Chanh was born in the Dakota Territories (Minnesota) and now resides in Ohlone Territory (San José). Chanh is the founder of the Gender Bender Dance Lesson, (twitter: @thegbdl) a gender-inclusive social dance project inspired by Golden Music and Boléro which many Vietnamese Boat People listened to and danced to while remembering their homeland. Total was a former SJSU DanceSport Gold/Open Level Latin Dance competitor and has been inspiring others to learn social dancing in a safe LGBTQ+ environment. Total was one of the co-founders of Queer & Asian SJSU, has been involved with API Equality Northern California since 2014, and a part of Bữa Ăn Tiếng Việt (fb: BATV) a Vietnamese language practice potluck group.