Thuy Thi Nguyen is an Emerge graduate from the first class, 2003. She currently sits on the Board of Directors for Emerge California.
Since October 2003, Thuy has served as General Counsel for the Peralta Community College District, which comprises of Laney College, Merritt College, ...
Thuy Thi Nguyen is an Emerge graduate from the first class, 2003. She currently sits on the Board of Directors for Emerge California.
Since October 2003, Thuy has served as General Counsel for the Peralta Community College District, which comprises of Laney College, Merritt College, College of Alameda, and Berkeley City College in Alameda County. Thuy serves on the California State Bar’s Council on Access and Fairness. She also currently serves on the board of Marcus A. Foster Education Fund, which supports Oakland public school students and families; Vietnamese American Professional Women of Silicon Valley; and California Network of Asian Public Administrators. She had also served as founding President of the Castlemont High School Alumni Association.
Thuy co-published a book entitled, “25 Vietnamese Americans in 25 Years,” chronicling the first twenty-five years of Vietnamese people in America since the Fall of Saigon. The publication is archived in the Library of Congress, the Viet Museum in San Jose, and many libraries in the country. She has taught education law at California State University, Hayward (now East Bay).
When she graduated from Castlemont High School in Oakland, the Mayor of Oakland named June 23, 1993 “Thuy Thi Nguyen” for her community service. In 1999, Thuy was selected a Paul and Daisy Soros for New Americans Fellow. In 2002, Thuy was listed among “30 Most Influential Asian Americans Under 30” nationally by Rainmaker Political Group (politicalcircus.com). In 2007, she was named one of eighteen “Best Lawyers Under 40” in the country by the National Asian American Bar Association. In 2010, she was inducted into the Castlemont High School Alumni Hall of Fame. Thuy received the 2011 Trailblazer Award from the Vietnamese American Bar Association of Northern California. She has been featured in the New York Times (Millennium Issue), San Francisco Examiner, USA Today, L.A. Times, Daily Journal, AsianWeek, Nha Magazine, and other media outlets.
Thuy attended Yale where she earned a B.A. in Philosophy, and UCLA School of Law where she received her Juris Doctor degree in 2000.