Team Members

Natalie Xuan Van, President

atalie is currently holding the position of CFO with a company that deals with generators and related equipment. She has previously gained her experiences working within the automotive and computer industries.

Ms. Van was also a professor of Managerial Accounting and Cost Accounting while concurrently holding the position of Accounting Controller. Her bachelor degree in Accounting and MBA degree in Finance from California State University, Long Beach as well as her Master degree in Accounting from California State University, Fullerton have served her well in successfully undertaking leadership roles in her career.

Ms. Van also devotes her time to serve various charitable organizations in Southern CA.

Binh Cong Nguyen, Secretary

inh was born and raised in Saigon, Vietnam during the final phase of the Vietnam War. He escaped by boat to Malaysia and then immigrated to the U.S.

He received a Bachelor Degree in Liberal Arts at Don Bosco College, Bachelor Degree in Sciences at University of Massachusetts, and Doctorate Degree in Dentistry at UCLA.

He has served as a Choir Director of the Vietnamese Choir at St. Calistus Parish, Garden Grove, CA, as a member of the SapVN Medical Mission to Vietnam, and as a Program Coordinator of the Vietnamese Catholic Detention Ministry, Orange County Diocese, CA.

Tue Phuong Van, Treasurer

ue Phuong graduated from California State University, Long Beach with a Bachelor of Science degree in Accounting and a Master degree in Education. She has pursued her education with the goal of better assisting the organization, Education For The Poor, in its charitable work. After acquiring many years of experience in the field, Ms. Van returned to school and obtained a California teaching credential in Accounting.

In 1989, Ms. Van became the Treasurer of The Association of Vietnamese Language & Culture Schools of Southern California with the hope of preserving and promoting the ability of young Vietnamese-American individuals to speak Vietnamese. She worked determinedly to acquire sufficient financial resources to fund the first Pedagogic Training session of the organization. She is currently the treasurer of the southwestern branch of the Vietnamese Catholic Community of the United States.

Kim Phan Nguyen, External Affairs

im Phan is an Electrical Engineer with over 20 years of experience working in the computer and electronics related industry and in the Space Shuttle Orbiter Program as hand-on Electronics Computer Technical Support, System Analyst and Electrical Design Engineer in the Commercial and Aerospace Engineering Design Organization. Ms Nguyen is working for Boeing Company in Huntington Beach, CA.

Ms Nguyen received a Bachelor of Science degree from Cal State University of Long Beach. Ms Nguyen is currently helping various charitable organizations in Southern California such as: Viet Olympiad Inc., Feeding The Homeless, the Orange County Food Bank with the Vietnamese American Aerospace Professional Association.

ong Hoang is currently working as a senior software engineer at Northrop Grumman in Carson, CA. Previously, he worked at Raytheon in El Segundo and Fullerton. Besides defense industry, Long also developed commercial software when he was with Systems Technology Inc in Hawthorne, CA. He was the chief Graphical User Interface developer of the ParaSim (http://www.stiparasim.com/), a parachute simulator that was used to train President George H. Bush before he jumped to celebrate his 70th birthday.

Long Hoang holds a Bachelor Degree in Biology from UCLA, a Bachelor degree in Computer Science from Cal Poly University and a Master in Computer Information System from Nova Southeastern University.

Kim Dung Nguyen, Director of Finance

im Dung is currently a third-year Internal Medicine physician resident at Kaiser Permanente in Los Angeles.

Ms. Nguyen graduated from Mount St. Mary’s College with a Bachelor degree in Biochemistry and a Minor in Psychology, and then proceeded to obtain her medical doctor degree at University of Southern California. She was involved in scientific research and has had 2 papers published in scientific Journals. She also put together a cervical cancer pamphlet and diabetic menu in Vietnamese during medical school.

Ms Nguyen was a volunteer for various charitable and community services programs in the past. Among them were the program at Northridge Hospital during high school, the Vietfamily charity program, an organization that funded children lacking medical care in Vietnam, and the Alhambra High School mentor program during medical school.

ru Vu received a bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin in 1984.

Tru Vu’s first job took him to California where he served as an system engineer for the F-14 software support team based at Pt. Mugu Naval Air Weapon Station. Feeling there’s more left to life than a job and a family, Mr. Vu followed his passion for art and left his secured position at Pt. Mugu to pursue a Master degree in Landscape Architecture. The Landscape Architecture program at Cal Poly Pomona was a rude awakening to our human’s ignorance of the environment’s efficient yet delicate balance as an ecosystem. The principles of sustainable living clash in many ways with our extravagance concept of beauty and rather than negotiating for the partnership of the two (a notion more complex than a tangled web), Mr. Vu opted for the next adventure. By pure chance, a short term project in the field of HIV health educator has turned into full time employment. This new found vigor as an educator lured Mr. Vu back to school to get a teaching credential. Following the successful completion of the credential program at the University of Texas at Austin and convinced that this is the right path, Mr. Vu continued to pursue a Master degree in education. Mr. Vu received a Master of Art in Education Technology from Cal Poly Pomona in 2004. Currently, Mr. Vu is a math teacher at Jordan High School, Long Beach, California.