Lisa Nguyen began her involvement with the Vietnamese Student Association at the University of Colorado at Boulder as a freshman in 2002. During her summer internships with Toyota Financial Services in California in 2006, she discovered Union of North American Vietnamese Student Association and has since been compelled by and supportive of the group’s causes. After graduating with a B.S. in Finance and Management, she moved to New York where she now works at the headquarters of Teach for America. Last Spring, she also held the role as Director of Communications for the first Hay Qua Conference, bringing together creative Vietnamese Americans on the East Coast.