Board of Directors


Angeline Vuong, Chairperson Consultant, Policy Research and Strategy


Chi B. Chung, Esq., Secretary Associate, Earp Cohn, P.C.


Nguyen Dinh Thang, Ph.D., Board Member Executive Director, BPSOS


Nguyen Ngoc Bich, Board Member Scholar/President & Acting Secretary, National Congress of Vietnamese Americans


Kim Khue Tran, CFA, Board Member CFO, Saraband Wireless, Inc.


Huy Pham, JD, MBA, Board Member Marketing Manager, Texas Instruments


Newton Hoang, Board Member Logistics Coordinator, Cause Force, Inc.

Board Members' Bios:

Angeline Vuong Chairperson	Highly active in community service and advocacy, Ms. Vuong volunteered at BPSOS-Houston to help with case management for Katrina victims and with preparing disability waiver petitions for Vietnamese torture survivors. She previously worked as Policy Strategist for Bill White for Texas campaign, Public Policy Assistant at the American Civil Liberties Union of Texas, and congressional intern at the office of the Majority Whip of the House of Representatives. She also worked on the Obama for America campaign. She is a member of Congressional Asian Pacific American Leadership (CAPAL) and Asian Pacific Americans for Civic Progress. Currently she serves as a Board Member of the Youth Leadership Council and manages the marketing campaign for the Hope Initiative Scholarship Program. She graduated from Trinity University with a B.A. in Political Science and International studies, with a minor in Religion, and is currently a Master of Public Policy candidate at Goldman School of Public Policy at UC Berkeley.

Chi B. Chung, Esq. Secretary	Ms. Chung Interned at BPSOS while a student at the University of California, Los Angeles. She joined BPSOS as Director of the BPSOS Community Technology Center in Pennsuaken, New Jersey in 2000. In 2001 she was awarded the Most Innovative Initiative Award by CTCNet, a national coalition of 700 Community Technology Centers. She received her Juris Doctor from the Catholic University, Columbus School of Law in 2004 and is currently practicing warranty product litigation in Cherry Hill, New Jersey.

Nguyen Dinh Thang, Ph.D Executive Director	Dr. Thang has served as the Executive Director of Boat People S.O.S. since 1991. He helped over 4,500 Vietnamese boat people in their refugee claims and successfully advocated for the resettlement of 20,000 boat people after their repatriation to Vietnam. He accomplished this while also working full time as an Engineer and Quality Control Manager for the Naval Surface Warfare Center. In 2001, Dr. Nguyen resigned his position with the Navy to devote himself full time to empowering the Vietnamese-American community nationwide through systematic community organizing and capacity building.
Nguyen Ngoc Bich Board Member	Nguyen Ngoc Bich was Director of the Vietnamese Services at Radio Free Asia (RFA) before his recently retirement. A well-known writer and translator among the Vietnamese, he is also in great demand on the lecture circuit, having done books on Vietnamese culture, poetry, music and the arts. Bich was also a presidential appointee under President George Bush (Sr.) in the U.S. Department of Education, where he served as Deputy, then Acting, Director of the Office of Bilingual Education and Language Minority Affairs (OBEMLA) from 1991 to 1993.
Kim K. Tran Board Member	Ms. Tran worked for 5 years with United Way of America in the capacity of Director of Finance & Administration, then Director of Financial Planning & Reporting. She then became CFO of United Way of the National Capital Area. In the business sector, she worked at United Express/Atlantic Coast Airlines as their Director for Financial Planning & Treasury Operations; and at Worldspace Corporation as Director of Planning and Treasury. She was also Associate Director for Strategic Planning at American Association of University Women, Employment Counselor at USCC in Houston, Associate Manager at the Dun & Bradstreet Corporation, and Senior Auditor at Occidental Petroleum Corporation. Kim Tran obtained her MBA from Columbia University. She was featured in CFO magazine in July of 2005 in an article titled “Non-profit by the numbers”.
Huy Pham, JD, MBA Board Member	Huy Pham is currently Marketing Manager for Texas Instruments. He earned his JD and MBA degrees from Northwestern University. He is currently on the board of Sunflower Mission, a non-profit dedicated to improving the lives of the children of Vietnam through educational assistance programs. He has also been on the Executive Board of the Vietnamese Culture and Science Association (VCSA) as the Chairman of Youth Programs and the Advisory Board for the Youth Leadership Council. Huy graduated from MIT in 2004 and holds bachelor degrees in Electrical Engineering/Computer Science and Philosophy.
Newton Hoang Board Member	bio info