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Connie Kim Yen Nguyen-Truong Oral History Interview

Interviewee
Interviewer
Date
  • 2015-02-23
Description
  • Connie Kim Yen Nguyen-Truong was born May 26th, 1976, in Portland, Oregon. As her parents were both born in Vietnam, she self-identifies as Vietnamese-American. She grew up in the Portland area and attended Benson High School. Upon graduation, she attended Linfield College Good Samaritan School of Nursing where she graduated in 2000 with her Bachelors of Science in Nursing. After practicing for five years, Nguyen-Truong attended the Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU) School of Nursing where she received her PhD and completed a post-doctoral fellowship. Her dissertation discussed health practices, in particular cervical cancer screenings, among Vietnamese immigrant women in the United States. This involved work with IRCO AFC's Vietnamese Women's Health Project. After defending her dissertation in 2011, she pursued her postdoctoral fellowship through 2013. Not only did she worked with IRCO in the Vietnamese Women's Health Project (parts one, two, and three) and its community advisory board, but she also became a board member for AFC during her post-doc and a fellow of the Asian Pacific Islander Community Leadership Institute's cohort one. Nguyen-Truong continued her work in part three of the Vietnamese Women's Health Project with AFC, was a member of APICLI's Steering Committee, and was appointed co-chair of IRCO AFC's advisory board in 2015. Her duties included discussing funding, programs, and the future of AFC. Nguyen-Truong was also a professional nurse and nurse educator at OHSU in Portland. In the summer of 2015, she accepted a position at the Washington State University College of Nursing.
  • The Immigrant and Refugee Community Organization (IRCO) was established in 1976 to serve immigrants and refugees in Portland, Oregon. IRCO's mission is to promote the integration of refugees, immigrants, and the community at large into a self-sufficient, healthy, and inclusive multiethnic society. Through its five primary locations – IRCO Main, Africa House/Skill Center, Asian Family Center, Senior Services Center, and the International Language Bank – the organization provides programs and services related to training and employment, health and aging, English language learning, naturalization and social adjustment, community development, early childhood, parenting and youth development, education and interpretation and translation.
Subject
Work Type
Location
Rights Holder
  • Oregon Multicultural Archives, OSU Special Collections & Archives Research Center
Identifier
  • Connie-Kim-Yen-Nguyen-Truong-oral-history-interview-2015-02-23
Local Collection Name
Institution
Submission Date
  • 11/17/2017
Modified
  • 03/09/2023
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APA

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Chicago

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Data Sources
Footer Number Term External URI
1 Nguyen-Truong, Connie http://opaquenamespace.org/ns/people/NguyenTruongConnie
2 Fernández, Natalia, 1985- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2015155999
3 Immigrants http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85064517
4 Asian Americans http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85008644
5 Community organization http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85029254
6 transcripts http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300027388
7 Portland >> Clackamas/Multnomah/Washington Counties >> Oregon >> United States https://sws.geonames.org/5746545/
8 Asian Family Center Oral History Collection, 2014-2016 (OH 30) http://opaquenamespace.org/ns/localCollectionName/oh_30
9 Oregon State University http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n80017721

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