Thi Bui & Thao Ha
Podcast: ÁCCENTEDPublished On: Fri Sep 25 2026
Description: Artists and activists Thi Bui and Thao Ha speak with hosts Philip Nguyen and Viet Thanh Nguyen.ABOUT THE GUESTSThi Bui is a writer and artist from Việt Nam, California, and New York, now planting roots in New Orleans. Best known for her graphic memoir, The Best We Could Do, which tells the story of her family amidst Việt Nam's struggles for independence, she has also been a longtime educator in public high schools, a professor of comics, a public speaker, an organizer and artist-activist, an ambivalent sculptor and puppeteer, a fledgling screenwriter, and an award-winning illustrator of children’s books and comics journalism.Thao Ha is a Vietnamese refugee, sociology professor, author, filmmaker, and non-profit leader. She is the current board president of the Vietnamese American Arts and Letters Association (VAALA), board chair of the Doan Foundation, and founder/executive director of Collective Freedom. Love Letters to the Dirty South is her forthcoming memoir about what it means to love, long for, and lose someone incarcerated.
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