The Vietnamese with Kenneth Nguyen

Kirk is the Director and Executive Producer for the award winning documentary film series, "Intersections". In 2017, on a whim, Kirk submitted to a DNA test simply to determine his full ethnicity and maybe connect with a distant biological relative. The results led Kirk to discover that his birth mother and birth father were indeed alive and well and that he had brothers and sisters that he didn’t know existed. Kirk also discovered that his birth mother had been searching for him for over 40 years.In the summer of 1969, during the peak of the Vietnam War, Kirk (Trần Văn Kirk) was born in DaNang, Vietnam as Tran Van Hung of a Vietnamese mother and an American Serviceman. Immediately after being born, Kirk was forcibly taken from his mother and dropped off at the Sacred Heart Orphanage in DaNang by his uncle on the orders of his Vietnamese Grandfather, who felt shame from his teenage daughter’s out-of-wedlock pregnancy by an American.When he was taken to the orphanage, his name was changed to Nguyen Viet Hung so that his mother wouldn’t be able to find him. In 1971, he was adopted by a US Army Major that was serving in the Vietnam War and became a naturalized US citizen in 1972.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Leenda Dong has been an internet comedy creator since 2012. Leenda is a lovable TikTok personality and creator with over 17 million followers. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Lien-Hang T. Nguyen, Dorothy Borg Associate Professor in the History of the United States and East Asia, specializes in the Vietnam War, U.S.-Southeast Asian relations, and the global Cold War.Professor Nguyen is currently working on a comprehensive history of the 1968 Tet Offensive for RandomHouse. She is the general editor of the forthcoming Cambridge History of the Vietnam War, 3 vols., as well as co-editor of the Cambridge Studies in U.S. Foreign Relations.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Thalia Tran is an actress from Orange County, California who will be playing the role of Mai in Netflix’s upcoming live-action adaptation of Avatar: The Last Airbender.  She has had a lifelong passion for the arts, from singing to playing instruments to acting.  As an actress, she is best known for playing Charlotte Perry in the NBC series Council of Dads, Raina in the Universal film Little, and Little Noi in Disney’s Oscar-nominated film Raya and the Last Dragon.  She has also guest starred in Disney’s Sydney to the Max and ABC’s Station 19.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Andy Van is an LA based comedian. He is a co-founder of Embarrassed by Night and the 626 Laugh Market. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Tai Nguyen join the U.S. Marines in 1977.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Brian Hoang is a Canadian fine artist. He discusses AI and how the technology is affecting artists like himself. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Mic Nguyen (@nicepantsdude) is a writer and comedian living in Brooklyn. He's host of a podcast named Asian Not Asian. He’s appeared on Ronny Chieng’s “Chinatown Takeaway” and on NPR’s “Everyone and Their Mom.” He’s written for “Wait Wait Don’t Tell Me” and McSweeney’s.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Phan Quang Tue was the son of a Vietnamese politician, and he grew up in South Vietnam during Ngo Dinh Diem's dictatorship. He fled to the United States in 1975 at the end of the Vietnam War, and he went on to serve as an Immigration & Naturalization Service trial attorney from 1988 to 1993, as an administrative law judge from 1993 to 1995, and as a Republican judge on the San Francisco Immigration Court from 1995 to 31 December 2012. In 2014, he lost a bid for the US House of Representatives.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Tuan Nguyen is a Managing Director at Rockefeller Capital Management.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy