Hi everyone. I'm Thao Nguyen, and this is my dog, Mochi. I use the pronouns He/His,
and Mochi uses all pronouns. I'm currently a Ph.D. student in the
joint Women’s & Gender Studies and History program at the University of
Michigan. I want to say that I'm really happy to have received all positive marks for my annual
second-year review, and will be advancing to do prelims next year as a graduate student. In May,
I'll also celebrate my one-year anniversary with Cia Siab, Inc. in La Crosse, Wisconsin. They're a
women-led nonprofit agency, and they are producing the first and only anti-violence report, so please
be on the lookout for the release of a report in summer of 2022. I hope in the near future
to continue our work with Cia Siab, Inc. and to also produce a dissertation on Vietnamese
Communist Women's History. I believe that my work is at its best when it is impactful and
applicable to the Southeast Asian-American community, and lastly, I want to say thank you
to APIQWTC for recognizing me and the work and contributions that I do, and I want to
say to all of you out there to please donate to APIQWTC. Donate once. Donate all the time
because this is really, you know, one of the only, or really it is the only scholarship dedicated
to API queer women and trans folks. If you love us, if you love this community, and
you appreciate the work that we do, then please, you know, support us, recognize us.