Awards and Recognition

Writing Awards

• Winner, Ralph Waldo Emerson Prize - Harvard Committee on Degrees in History & Literature

• Winner, Lisa MacFarlane Prize - New England American Studies Association

• Winner, Features Story of the Year - Associated Collegiate Press: ACP honors top collegiate stories

• Winner, Student Excellence in Written Reporting - Asian American Journalists Association: 2024 Journalism Excellence Awards

• Winner, Eighth International Found Poem Contest - New York Times: Winners of Our Eighth Annual Found Poem Contest

• Second Place, Inter-University Undergraduate Paper Award - Southeast Asia Digital Library: 2024 SEADL Undergraduate Paper Award Winners

  Finalist, Mark of Excellence: Breaking News Reporting - Society of Professional Journalists New England: Region 1 Mark of Excellence Awards 2023 winners announced

• Finalist, Mark of Excellence: Feature Writing - Society of Professional Journalists New England: Region 1 Mark of Excellence Awards 2023 winners announced

Fellowships

• Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship

• Asian American Journalists Association VOICES Fellowship: AAJA Announces VOICES Cohort, Leadership for 2023 Program

• Harvard Magazine Steiner Fellowship: 2023 Summer/Steiner Fellowship

• Frederick Douglass Global Fellowship: CIEE Celebrates the 2022 Frederick Douglass Global Fellows

• National Japanese American Memorial Foundation Digital Storytelling Fellowship: Digital Storytelling Project

• Human Flourishing Program Fellowship (Oxford Vivarium)

• Leadership in Public Service - 2023 Journalism Fellowship

• Harvard College SPARK Public Service Fellowship

• Alternate, Presidential Public Service Fellowship

Academic and Service

• Weatherhead Center for International Affairs Research Grant (Summer 2024)

• Andrew Mellon W. Foundation Research Grant (Summer 2024)

• Andrew Mellon W. Foundation Research Grant (Summer 2023)

• Harvard Kennedy School Institute of Politics Public Service Grant

• John Harvard Scholarship

• New England Intercollegiate Vietnamese Student Association Dreams Scholarship

• National Contribution Project Grant

• Honoree, Boston Red Sox Hats Off to Heroes: Westborough activist honored at Fenway Park

• Honoree, Harvard Kennedy School Institute of Politics Our Narratives Inaugural Cohort Speaker: Students Take Center Stage at IOP Forum in Inaugural ‘Our Narratives’ Event

• Honoree, Ethnicity, Migration, Rights Scholar

• Semifinalist, McDonald’s APIA Scholarship

• Nominee, Jacob Wendell Scholarship Prize

Quotes and Press Features

• NBC News (February 7, 2024): More Asian Americans say they're taking off Lunar New Year, even though it’s not a company holiday

• [Feature] Harvard Gazette (July 26, 2023): College interns find outlets for creativity in fields ranging from journalism to theater

• [Feature] Harvard Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study (September 14, 2023): Student Spotlight: Ryan Doan-Nguyen ’25

• [Feature] NBC News (Nov 13, 2023): Children of immigrants share their experiences with racism in Massachusetts

• The Harvard Crimson (November 8, 2022): ‘All the Alarm Bells’: Panel Discusses Future of Indian Child Welfare Act at IOP Forum

• [Feature] Harvard Magazine (August 30, 2022): Following Frederick Douglass: During a summer fellowship, student-activists learn from the abolitionist’s legacy.

• U.S. Ambassador to Ireland’s Residence in Dublin (August 16, 2022): The 2022 Frederick Douglass Global Fellowship Program Wraps with Farewell Ceremony

• The Boston Globe x Asian American Journalists Association (May 11, 2022): Visibility and Vulnerability in America

• Boston University News Service (November 4, 2021): Two years into the pandemic and anti-Asian hate crimes: How did they shake the Asian community in Massachusetts?

• Town of Maynard Select Board and Human Relations Committee (July 13, 2021): Addressing the Wave of Anti-Asian Hate as a Town Entity

• Community Advocate (June 18, 2021): Westborough activist honored at Fenway Park

• GBH News (June 1, 2021): Asian American And Pacific Islander Heritage Month Virtual Event

• Community Advocate (May 21, 2021): WHS Graduate Fights Anti-Asian Racism

• WORLD Channel (May 3, 2021): A series of featured documentaries showcase the Asian American Pacific Islander community and its culture in May

• ABC’s WCVB Channel 5 Boston (April 27, 2021): Activism Pushing Forward Against Asian Hate

• Appearance in Music Video with 1.1M Views, KHA (April 12, 2021): NO MORE

• The Harvard Crimson (April 1, 2021): Corner Pieces

• GBH News (March 16, 2021): Anti-Asian Attacks Across U.S. Spark Outcry

• The Daily Free Press (March 14, 2021): GALLERY: Stop Asian Hate Protest in Boston Common

• NPR’s WBUR (March 14, 2021): ‘Racism Is A Virus': Bostonians Gather For Stop Asian Hate Rally

• Getty Images (March 13, 2021): Protest Against Violence Toward Asians

• CBS News (March 13, 2021): 'Stop Asian Hate' Rally In Boston Calls Out Recent Attacks On Asian Americans

• The Boston Globe (March 13, 2021): Rally calls attention to attacks on Asian Americans

• The Harvard Crimson (February 18, 2021): ‘Othered’ and ‘Excluded’: Asian American Students React to Increase in Hate Crimes Across the U.S.

Reporting Cited

• Associated Press Articles: Washington Post, ABC News, NBC News, CBS News, PBS, The Hill, The Independent, US News and World Report, Asian Americans Advancing Justice - AAJC, Politico

• Brown University Spring 2024 LITR 1152C Course Syllabus: Post-COVID Learning Losses

• Journal of Empirical Legal Studies (April 11, 2024): Rankings without U.S. News: A revealed preference approach to evaluating law schools

• Daily Mail (March 18, 2024): Pandemic remote learning caused schoolkids to fall behind in maths while failing to stop spread of COVID, as doctors admit 'we kept our kids at home longer than we should have'

• UV+EB Technology Magazine (March 4, 2024): Training, Sir! What Kind of Training? UUUU-VVVV Training, Sir!

• Eurasia Review (January 22, 2024): Fauci Admits To Multiple COVID-19 Missteps During Closed-Door Hearing

• Global Research and Consulting Group (December 8, 2023): Equity in Education in the Post-COVID Era

• Zine Libraries (October 10, 2023): Indigenous zines at Harvard

• National Indian Law Library (Sep-Oct 2023): 2023 Mascots, Hate & Native Representation News Stories

• Kansas City University (August 1, 2023): Tackling the Dental Care Desert

• Harvard Library (September 1, 2023): Everyday Indigeneity: Championing Native voices

• Harvard School of Dental Medicine (July 27, 2023): Tackling the Dental Care Desert

• Harvard Graduate School of Design (July 21, 2023): Addressing Disability

• Harvard Center for Education Policy Research (July 16, 2023): Post-COVID Learning Losses

• Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health (July 16, 2023): When Wildfires Make Your Air Unhealthy

• Harvard Office for Equity, Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging (May 25, 2023): Standing Out, United

• Harvard Office for Equity, Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging (May 10, 2023): Harvard Police Chief ‘100%’ Backs Student and Alumni Demands After Leverett Swatting Attack

• The Hill (April 6, 2023): ‘Traumatized’ Harvard students held at gunpoint by campus security in ‘swatting’ incident

• ABC News (April 5, 2023): Harvard students face dorm raid by armed officers after hoax threat

• Business Insider (April 5, 2023): Harvard police raided a dorm where 4 Black students were living after someone made a false call about an active threat: 'We are traumatized'

• TeenVogue (April 5, 2023): Harvard Police Searched Dorm With Guns After "Swatting" Hoax

• The Root (April 5, 2023): How 'Swatting' Led to Four Black Harvard Students Being Held at Gunpoint by Campus Police

• The Marshall Project (April 4, 2023): Swatting: A Curated Collection of Links

• IEEE Integrated STEM Education Conference (March 11, 2023): An Innovative Scheme for College Ranking: A Socialization Perspective