About GUAVA

Board Members

2025-2027 Term

Meet the Board Members

Chung Nguyen

President

Lecturer in Vietnamese/Program Director

Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures

Columbia University

email: cn2496@columbia.edu

Trang Tran

Executive Secretary

Visiting Lecturer in East Asian Studies

East Asian Studies

Brown University

email: trang_tran@brown.edu

Huy Phung

Communication Manager/Newsletter Editor

Assistant Teaching Professor

Department of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

email: phunghuy@unc.edu

Previous Board Members

2021-2024/2025

President	*Thúy Tranviet*, Cornell University
Executive Manager/Secretary	*Chung Nguyen*, Columbia University
Newsletter Editor/Webmaster	Huy Phung, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa

2019-2021

President	*Thúy Tranviet*, Cornell University
Secretary	*Chung Nguyen*, Columbia University
Treasurer	Bich-Ngoc Turner, University of Washington

2017 – 2019

President	*Bich-Ngoc Turner*, University of Washington
Treasurer	*Hong Dinh*, University of Wisconsin – Madison
(Senior Advisor)	*Thúy Tranviet,* Cornell University

2015 – 2017

President	*Thúy Tranviet,* Cornell University
Vice President	*Minh Nguyen*,University of California, Riverside
Treasurer	*Mariam Lam*, University of California, Riverside

2013 – 2015

President	*Andrea Hoa Pham,* University of Florida
Vice President	*Quang Van*, Yale University
Treasurer	*Thúy Tranviet,* Cornell University

In Transition: GUAVAmerica 2012 – 2013

President	*Andrea Hoa Pham,* University of Florida
Vice President	*Quang Van*, Yale University
Treasurer	*Thúy Tranviet,* Cornell University
Secretary	*Thúy Anh Nguyen*, University of Michigan

2010 – 2012

President	*Andrea Hoa Pham,* University of Florida
Vice President	*Quang Van*, Yale University
Treasurer	*Kim Oanh Nguyen, University of Washington Thúy Tranviet,* Cornell University
Secretary	*Thúy Anh Nguyen*, University of Michigan

2008 – 2010

Co- President	*Ngô Như Bình, Harvard University Bac Hoai Tran,* UC-Berkeley
Treasurer	*Kim Oanh Nguyen*, University of Washington
Secretary	*Nga Nguyen,* University of Michigan

2006 – 2008

Chair of Academic Affairs	*Thuý-Kim Lê Phạm,* Arizona State University
Chair of Administrative Affairs	*Andrea Hoa Pham*, University of Florida
Chair of Outreach	*Ngô Như Bình*, Harvard University
Treasurer	*Kim Oanh Nguyen*, University of Washington

2003 – 2006

Co-Presidents	*Ngô Như Bình, Harvard University Bac Hoai Tran,* UC-Berkeley
Vice-President	*Quang Van*, Yale University
Treasurer	*Kim Oanh Nguyen*, University of Washington
Secretary	*Nga Nguyen,* University of Michigan

1993 – 2003

President	*Stephen O’Harrow*, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
Vice-President	*Thuý-Kim* *Lê Phạm* , Arizona State University
Treasurer	*Kim Oanh Nguyen*, University of Washington
Secretary	*Nga Nguyen*, University of Michigan

Founding Members

Stephen O’Harrow, Charles Keyes, Kim Oanh Nguyen, Thuy-Kim Le Pham