Ryan Doan-Nguyen

Ryan Doan-Nguyen (born 16 April 2002) is a Vietnamese-Lao-American activist and writer known for his role in fueling the Stop Asian Hate movement. Doan-Nguyen, from Boston and Westborough in Massachusetts, is the son of Vietnamese boat people.
Doan-Nguyen was named a winner of the New York Times Eighth Annual International Found Poem Contest, in which he wrote a poem about the heroism of refugees.
He organized the Stop Asian Hate Boston Rally and March on March 13, 2021, with nearly 1,000 people in attendance.
Following the rally, Doan-Nguyen joined Jim Braude and Robert Trestan, the local head of the Anti-Defamation League, to discuss anti-Asian violence.
He was credited for his work by the Boston Red Sox as a 2021 Red Sox Hats Off to Heroes Honoree, in which the team invited him to their game against the Miami Marlins on May 28, 2021 and recognized him on the Fenway Stadium screen.
More recently, he was named a 2022 Frederick Douglass Global Fellow, sending him to Dublin, Ireland in the summer of 2022 to study peace, conflict resolution, and social justice. He currently attends Harvard University, where he writes for the Harvard Crimson and serves as Co-President of the Harvard Vietnamese Association.
 
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