Profiles

Cường works between / in / nearby / at the intersections of sound, community, and archives. Sometimes they intersect and at times they do not.

He started volunteering at the An Việt Foundation in 2017. Slowly, experientially, and perhaps even apprehensively, the An Việt Foundation transitioned—with the help of a community of people—into the An Việt Archives over the years.

He hopes that his son will grow up to become a professional footballer so that he can write a book that is part memoir, part polemic about the politics of sport, nationalism, and displacement.

Get in touch if you have any tips to help toddlers grow into a professional athlete. Email phambinho@duck.com.

Georgina is a London-based journalist at the Financial Times, covering public policy, European and British politics. She kicked off her career interning at Kerrang! Magazine when she was a 16-year-old pop-punk aficionado and got carried away writing ever since. Her goal is to report stories that expose inequality and meet people where they are. As a Scott Trust bursary journalist at the Guardian, she tackled a swath of issues from the Hillsborough Disaster to children’s social care to Pablo Escobar’s hippos. She was the NCTJ’s trainee Feature Writer of the Year in 2023. That year, as a George Weidenfeld bursary recipient, she undertook a climate reporting fellowship with Deutsche Welle in Berlin. She has written about her family’s sacrifices and strengths as they fled Vietnam and the legacy of British resettlement camps, as well as the sparkling creativity of the Vietnamese community in arts and heritage. Get in touch on X: @georginaquach 

Trà My works at the intersection of the arts and community wellbeing as a publisher and community organiser. She uses storytelling and applies narrative approaches to social justice and community building projects. She works for the contemporary radical international literary press, Tilted Axis, an ongoing exploration into alternatives – to the hierarchisation of certain languages and forms, including forms of translation. She uses an intersectional and people-centred approaches to working with Vietnamese and other ESEA migrant communities, which she brings to her work with the An Việt Archives, Southeast and East Asian Women’s Association (SEEAWA), the Southeast and East Asian Centre (SEEAC), and various other human rights organisations. Having been awarded a fellowship from Better Engagement Between East and Southeast Asia (BEBESEA) she is editing and translating a collection of life stories from Vietnamese refugees and migrants in Hong Kong. 

Phương Anh is a writer and translator from Vietnam, with works featured on Asymptote, Modern Poetry in Translation, PR&TA and in Here Was Once The Sea: An Anthology of Southeast Asian Eco-Writing among others. In 2024, they participated in NCW Visible Communities virtual residency, exploring the space between memory, archive and translation. Phương Anh works part-time with Tilted Axis Press and volunteers with World Kid Lit.

Benjamin is a researcher specialising in the Vietnam War and its aftermath. Holding degrees in history, his past work has focused on South Vietnamese perspectives, particularly involving South Vietnamese politics and economy. Currently, his research explores the Vietnamese diaspora in London, with a focus on the trauma caused by the Vietnam War and how that trauma continues to manifest today. 

Toan is a founding member of the AVA steering committee. Outside of AVA activity, he is responsible for Artist Support for Residencies and Awards at Acme, an organisation which provides affordable studio spaces for artists in London. He was formerly its cataloguing archivist. He is the son of Mr Vu Khanh Thanh, the founder of the An Viet Foundation. Connect with Toan atanvietarchives@gmail.com

Tamsin is a Reader in Sociology and Chair of the Migration and Refugees Network at Oxford Brookes University. She teaches the sociology of “race”, ethnicity, inequality and identity and her work is centred on social justice and belonging. She has spent years exploring questions of identity and migration among the Vietnamese diaspora and more recent migrant Vietnamese populations in the UK. She is author of “Oriental” Identities in Super-Diverse Britain: Young Vietnamese in London (2015), Palgrave Macmillan. Recent projects include “Becoming East Asian: Race, Ethnicity and Youth Politics of Belonging in Superdiverse Britain” British Academy/Leverhulme (2019-2021), “Investigating the link between migration to the UK and the Urbanisation process in Vietnam” (2020-2022), and the “EIMS” Research Excellence Award Project (2023-2024). She is currently writing her second book Vietnamese Migrants and UK Bordering Practices: precarity, resilience and aspiration (Amsterdam University Press).  You can reach out to her via email: t.barber@brookes.ac.uk

​​George is a London-based artist, writer and curator whose work focuses on moving images. His films have been exhibited at museums and festivals internationally including New York Film Festival, Hanoi Doclab, International Film Festival Rotterdam, Taiwan Biennale, Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul, Museo de Arte Moderno de Buenos Aires and LA Film Forum among others. Throughout tenures at Tate Modern (2013-15) and elsewhere, his curatorial projects strive to broaden the histories of film and video practice, working across modern art museums to grassroots organisations from UK to Taiwan, New Zealand to Vietnam. He is a lecturer and researcher at the University of Westminster. He is founding member of the West Java West Yorkshire Cooperative Movement (2018-ongoing), a collaborative platform established with Jatiwangi art Factory (Indonesia) and Pavilion (UK). His films are distributed by LUX.

www.georgeandclark.com