Ngọc Loan Trần
Southern Vision Alliance and Youth Organizing Institute
Durham, NC
a vietnamese, migrant queer, gender non-conforming alien based in the U.S. South believes in the power of a multi-national, multi-gender, multi-generation working class. uses they/them pronouns. serves on the executive team for Southern Vision Alliance and director for the Youth Organizing Institute. wears lots of hats, hands in lots of pots, and trying to make sense of it all through love, poetry, and good food.
talk to them about grassroots strategies for movement collaboration and coordination; living out "less ego, more impact"; popular education; solidarity as a site of identity formation; unleashing the power of queer and trans youth of color.