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Ngoc-Tran Vu (she/her) identifies as a 1.5-generation Vietnamese American interdisciplinary and transnational artist whose socially engaged work draws from her experience as a community organizer, educator, and healer. She was born in Sài Gòn, Việt Nam and raised in Dorchester and South Boston, both working-class neighborhoods of Massachusetts. Tran received her MA in Arts and Politics at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts and her BA in Ethnic Studies and Visual Arts at Brown University.
Tran is also a graduate of the Center for Third World Organizing’s Movement Activist Apprenticeship Program (MAAP) as well as the International Center on Nonviolent Conflict (ICNC), Hai Bà Trưng School of Organizing, Undoing Racism®, and AARW’s Dorchester Organizing and Training Initiative (DOT-I). In addition, she is a board member of the National Federation of Community Broadcasters (NFCB).
In 2019, Tran was the National Arts Strategies’ Creative Communities Fellow and featured as one of the WBUR Artery 25, a series highlighting millennials of color making an impact in the Boston arts scene. Tran has collaborated with ArtPlace America, the Boston Children’s Museum, MASS MoCA Assets for Artists, Heritage Museums and Gardens. She teaches workshops on storytelling, digital marketing, financial literacy, housing strategies for artists, and has taught in the Future Imagemakers program at NYU's Tisch Department of Photography. Currently, she’s an adjunct faculty teaching an Asian American Studies course titled “Asian Women in the United States” at the University of Massachusetts Boston.
Previously, Tran worked at AIR (Association of Independents in Radio) to support and advocate for freelance producers and media makers in mission-driven storytelling. Tran works across borders and is based in Boston’s Dorchester community.
