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Cat Bao Le has been organizing in North Carolina and the South for 14 years. Prior to that Cat worked in the Bay Area at the Asian Law Caucus in the area of civil rights. During this time Cat also worked with farm workers from Southeast Asia through the United Farm Workers--work that eventually led her to a fellowship in Viet Nam in 2009. Here she worked briefly at an INGOs, while learning about labor laws and national policies.
Cat is the Founder of SEAC Village, an abolitionist SE Asian and Black organization based in Charlotte, North Carolina, where she served as the Executive Director for over a decade. Cat now serves on the Board of Directors for the Southeast Immigrant Rights Network. Cat is currently supporting organizations by providing trainings and consulation; as well as co-directing a project for mutual aid for people who have been deported to Vietnam.
Cat was born and raised in London, England (Tottenham) to refugee parents from Viet Nam. She is one of five children, and two cousibs. She immigrated to Sacramento, California in 1990, and then attended UC Berkeley. Cat is a mother of two. She is a multi-generational thrift enthusiast; and loves traveling in her Van with her family as they explore and learn the history of places in the South.
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https://gofund.me/bb31f963
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Tin Thanh Nguyen is founder and managing partner at Law Office of Tin Thanh Nguyen, PLLC, an immigration law firm located in Charlotte, North Carolina. For over 18 years, he has been practicing immigration law with a focus on removal defense before immigration courts and the Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA). Tin also represents Southeast Asian refugees before various U.S. district courts in Georgia and Alabama, challenging their prolonged detention with Immigration Custom Enforcement (ICE).
Tin is an activist attorney whose intersectional work concentrates on police accountability, mass incarceration, and criminal justice reform, particularly for communities that are marginalized in the South. He is a founding board member of the SEAC Village—a social justice and multi-racial youth organizing entity in Charlotte. He also serves as the lead pro bono attorney at SEAC, representing immigrant/refugee families victimized by police violence and Southeast Asians facing ICE detention and deportation. He also provides legal support, representation, and mentoring to youth who are caught in the juvenile justice system.
Born in Nome, Alaska, Tin grew up in a tight-knit Vietnamese refugee family. He has spent most of his life in Charlotte where both sides of his family live. He graduated magna cum laude from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2002. He earned his Juris Doctorate at North Carolina Central University School of Law in 2006
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Many of you still have the chance to record and preserve the legacies of your own families. I’ve sat with families now for interview sessions to record the rich histories of parents and explore the lives of the generations that preceded them. Don’t let your family stories go untold! Take a moment to reach out and together we will bring out your family’s story on a recorded journey. - Kenneth Nguyen
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