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From Vietnamese Refugee to Leader for Democracy: The Life of Hoi Trinh

Episode Summary

Hoi Trinh was born in South Vietnam. After the war ended, his family was forced to flee to Australia. Trinh rose from refugee to hot shot lawyer, but he wasn't satisfied. He wanted to understand where he came from and to help the people who were left behind. He returned to Vietnam to work with refugees but was again cast out. In 2005, he co-founded VOICE, the Vietnamese Overseas Initiative for Conscience Empowerment, and now advocates for democracy and civil society development in Vietnam. In 2017, he came to Stanford as a Draper Hills fellow to learn from faculty across campus about ways to promote democracy. Learn more about VOICE at vietnamvoice.org. To help with their work, email Hoi Trinh at hoitrinh@gmail.com. Learn more about the Draper Hills Summer Fellowship at https://cddrl.fsi.stanford.edu/summerfellows.

Episode Notes

Hoi Trinh was born in South Vietnam. After the war ended, his family was forced to flee to Australia. Trinh rose from refugee to hot shot lawyer, but he wasn't satisfied. He wanted to understand where he came from and to help the people who were left behind. He returned to Vietnam to work with refugees but was again cast out. In 2005, he co-founded VOICE, the Vietnamese Overseas Initiative for Conscience Empowerment, and now advocates for democracy and civil society development in Vietnam. In 2017, he came to Stanford as a Draper Hills fellow to learn from faculty across campus about ways to promote democracy.

Learn more about VOICE at vietnamvoice.org. To help with their work, email Hoi Trinh at hoitrinh@gmail.com.
Learn more about the Draper Hills Summer Fellowship at https://cddrl.fsi.stanford.edu/summerfellows.