Viet baller Daniel H Nguyen breaks stereotypes by proving Asian men CAN jump. The Louisiana-based basketball team the Pandas have also spawned Asian-American soccer, softball, and football teams, taking home 21 championships.

Kathleen Carlin, pioneer English as a Second Language teacher in the NOLA Viet community, has decades of disproportionate Viet student success stories, in the classroom and beyond.

In her new book Dreaming of Money in Ho Chi Minh City, Allison Truitt covers everything from gold shops to temples. A Caucasian woman fluent in Vietnamese, Truitt spent 10 years in Vietnam and New Orleans researching her book and raising bi-racial children.

Anthropologist Hoang Nguyen digs into communities as far flung as Vietnamese hillside villages and our NOLA Viet community. Still living in Vietnam, in his spare time Hoang is a martial arts fighter, in real life and on screen, having buddied up with Bruce Willis in GI Joe Retaliation.

It’s all business talk with MQVN’s Business Development Counselor Khai Nguyen. From farmers co-ops in NOLA East to corner stores citywide, the Viets are everywhere in NOLA.