Tien Trung Nguyen: Better Preparedness, Better Skills, Better Chance of Winning Against Tyranny 

2022 Fellow Spotlight Series - This talk was recorded for the Draper Hills Summer Fellows Program at Stanford University in 2022.
Tien Trung Nguyen is the Vice President of the Vietnamese Independent Union (VIU), which provides activism training for union leaders, improves workers’ legal understanding of their labor rights, and lobbies for foreign pressure on the Vietnamese government to follow the EU-Vietnam Free Trade Agreement (EVFTA). Trung oversees the recruitment of activists and fundraising management for many civil society organizations.
Since 2014, Trung has been advising a civil society association of literary writers and intellectuals that pushes for Vietnam’s cultural change and freedom by uploading RU-vid videos and translating English books into Vietnamese on sensitive topics, including politics and democracy. From 2006-2008, Trung served as the Vice General Secretary of the Democratic Party of Vietnam, working to pressure the communist regime toward a multi-party democracy system in Vietnam. He founded the Viet Youth for Democracy, a civil society association that sought to spread democratic values to the young Vietnamese generation.
Trung has written many opinion pieces and political commentaries for BBC Vietnamese, VOA Vietnamese, Tieng Dan News, and US-Vietnam Review (University of Oregon).