Kathleen Hoang

Kathleen Hoang is a TAAF Summer Intern. The daughter of Vietnamese refugees, she recently graduated from Columbia University, where she studied the afterlives of war through military history and empire. Over the past eight years, she has organized across grassroots and federal spaces— from OCA, Asian Americans Advancing Justice, the Southeast Asian Freedom Network, and the White House Initiative on AANHPI—and with author Viet Thanh Nguyen on literary and academic projects. This summer, she is working with The Asian American Foundation as a Data & Research intern. Beyond advocacy, she moves through fashion spaces as a site of memory and resistance, exploring how art, politics, and justice converge.