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Thao Nguyen, Director of Outreach

Thao Nguyen is the Director of Outreach for Health and Reproductive Rights. She oversees the outreach efforts for the Center's work on health care, reproductive rights, and judicial nominations. She helped manage the successful health campaign Being A Woman Is Not A Pre-Existing Condition and is the campaign director of This Is Personal. Previously, Ms. Nguyen managed the policy and advocacy work at different HIV/AIDS and environmental organizations. She received her undergraduate degree in English from the University of California, Irvine and a graduate degree in Human Rights Law from the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London where she wrote her honors thesis examining the legal advances in protecting women against violence during conflict situations.

My Take

Lessons from My Mom: Even the Strong Need Help to Stay Secure

Posted by Thao Nguyen, Director of Outreach | Posted on: May 06, 2011 at 05:20 pm

Thao's parents"I feel like I never know what to expect with life." My baby sister and I were sprawled on a makeshift bed for our "slumber party" with our mom when she said this. After our father died two days earlier in that same living room, we seemed to not want to leave it.

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The Health Care Law at One: Helping Seniors, Like My Dad, Move Forward

Posted by Thao Nguyen, Director of Outreach | Posted on: March 22, 2011 at 04:49 pm

Over a year ago, my family discovered my dad has dementia. I can't describe how horrible and heart wrenching it is to find out that someone you love is slowing slipping away and you can’t do a thing about it. It breaks my family's heart every day.

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What the Election Results Don't Mean

Posted by Thao Nguyen, Director of Outreach | Posted on: November 04, 2010 at 11:22 am

If you are like me, by now, you’ve been subject to a deluge of cable news punditry about what the election results mean. Not to be out done, politicians have used acceptance speeches, concession speeches, and basically any appearance that might include a podium and microphone to give their reasons for what the election results must mean.

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