Awards and Recognition
Writing Awards
Winner, Ralph Waldo Emerson Prize - Harvard Committee on Degrees in History & Literature
Winner, Lisa MacFarlane Prize - New England American Studies Association
Winner, Features Story of the Year - Associated Collegiate Press: ACP honors top collegiate stories
Winner, Student Excellence in Written Reporting - Asian American Journalists Association: 2024 Journalism Excellence Awards
Winner, Eighth International Found Poem Contest - New York Times: Winners of Our Eighth Annual Found Poem Contest
Second Place, Inter-University Undergraduate Paper Award - Southeast Asia Digital Library: 2024 SEADL Undergraduate Paper Award Winners
Finalist, Mark of Excellence: Breaking News Reporting - Society of Professional Journalists New England: Region 1 Mark of Excellence Awards 2023 winners announced
Finalist, Mark of Excellence: Feature Writing - Society of Professional Journalists New England: Region 1 Mark of Excellence Awards 2023 winners announced
Fellowships
Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship: Government Concentrators Selected as Mellon Mays Fellows
Asian American Journalists Association VOICES Fellowship: AAJA Announces VOICES Cohort, Leadership for 2023 Program
Harvard Magazine Steiner Fellowship: 2023 Summer/Steiner Fellowship
Frederick Douglass Global Fellowship: CIEE Celebrates the 2022 Frederick Douglass Global Fellows
National Japanese American Memorial Foundation Digital Storytelling Fellowship: Digital Storytelling Project
Human Flourishing Program Fellowship (Oxford Vivarium)
Leadership in Public Service - 2023 Journalism Fellowship
Mindich Service Fellowship
Harvard College SPARK Public Service Fellowship
Alternate, Presidential Public Service Fellowship
Academic and Service
Phi Beta Kappa Early Induction: Five Gov seniors elected to Phi Beta Kappa
Weatherhead Center for International Affairs Research Grant (Summer 2024): Undergraduate Associates
Andrew Mellon W. Foundation Research Grant (Summer 2024)
Andrew Mellon W. Foundation Research Grant (Summer 2023)
Harvard Kennedy School Institute of Politics Public Service Grant
Priscilla Chan Summer Service Stipend
John Harvard Scholarship
New England Intercollegiate Vietnamese Student Association Dreams Scholarship
National Contribution Project Grant
Mather House Public Service Representative: Ryan Doan-Nguyen
Honoree, Boston Red Sox Hats Off to Heroes: Westborough activist honored at Fenway Park
Honoree, Harvard Kennedy School Institute of Politics Our Narratives Inaugural Cohort Speaker: Students Take Center Stage at IOP Forum in Inaugural ‘Our Narratives’ Event
Honoree, Ethnicity, Migration, Rights Scholar
Semifinalist, McDonald’s APIA Scholarship
Nominee, Jacob Wendell Scholarship Prize
Quotes and Press Features
Boston Globe (May 28, 2025): ‘It seems like science fiction.’ Harvard students set to graduate amid fear, uncertainty of Trump's pressure campaign.
NBC News (February 7, 2024): More Asian Americans say they're taking off Lunar New Year, even though it’s not a company holiday
[Feature] Harvard Gazette (July 26, 2023): College interns find outlets for creativity in fields ranging from journalism to theater
[Feature] Harvard Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study (September 14, 2023): Student Spotlight: Ryan Doan-Nguyen ’25
[Feature] NBC News (Nov 13, 2023): Children of immigrants share their experiences with racism in Massachusetts
The Harvard Crimson (November 8, 2022): ‘All the Alarm Bells’: Panel Discusses Future of Indian Child Welfare Act at IOP Forum
[Feature] Harvard Magazine (August 30, 2022): Following Frederick Douglass: During a summer fellowship, student-activists learn from the abolitionist’s legacy.
U.S. Ambassador to Ireland’s Residence in Dublin (August 16, 2022): The 2022 Frederick Douglass Global Fellowship Program Wraps with Farewell Ceremony
Boston Globe x Asian American Journalists Association (May 11, 2022): Visibility and Vulnerability in America
Boston University News Service (November 4, 2021): Two years into the pandemic and anti-Asian hate crimes: How did they shake the Asian community in Massachusetts?
Town of Maynard Select Board and Human Relations Committee (July 13, 2021): Addressing the Wave of Anti-Asian Hate as a Town Entity
Community Advocate (June 18, 2021): Westborough activist honored at Fenway Park
GBH News (June 1, 2021): Asian American And Pacific Islander Heritage Month Virtual Event
Community Advocate (May 21, 2021): WHS Graduate Fights Anti-Asian Racism
WORLD Channel (May 3, 2021): A series of featured documentaries showcase the Asian American Pacific Islander community and its culture in May
ABC’s WCVB Channel 5 Boston (April 27, 2021): Activism Pushing Forward Against Asian Hate
Appearance in Music Video with 1.1M Views, KHA (April 12, 2021): NO MORE
The Harvard Crimson (April 1, 2021): Corner Pieces
GBH News (March 16, 2021): Anti-Asian Attacks Across U.S. Spark Outcry
The Daily Free Press (March 14, 2021): GALLERY: Stop Asian Hate Protest in Boston Common
NPR’s WBUR (March 14, 2021): ‘Racism Is A Virus': Bostonians Gather For Stop Asian Hate Rally
Getty Images (March 13, 2021): Protest Against Violence Toward Asians
CBS News (March 13, 2021): 'Stop Asian Hate' Rally In Boston Calls Out Recent Attacks On Asian Americans
The Boston Globe (March 13, 2021): Rally calls attention to attacks on Asian Americans
The Harvard Crimson (February 18, 2021): ‘Othered’ and ‘Excluded’: Asian American Students React to Increase in Hate Crimes Across the U.S.
Reporting Cited
Associated Press Articles: Washington Post, ABC News, NBC News, CBS News, PBS, The Hill, The Independent, US News and World Report, Asian Americans Advancing Justice - AAJC, Politico
Brown University Spring 2024 LITR 1152C Course Syllabus: Post-COVID Learning Losses
Journal of Empirical Legal Studies (April 11, 2024): Rankings without U.S. News: A revealed preference approach to evaluating law schools
Daily Mail (March 18, 2024): Pandemic remote learning caused schoolkids to fall behind in maths while failing to stop spread of COVID, as doctors admit 'we kept our kids at home longer than we should have'
UV+EB Technology Magazine (March 4, 2024): Training, Sir! What Kind of Training? UUUU-VVVV Training, Sir!
Eurasia Review (January 22, 2024): Fauci Admits To Multiple COVID-19 Missteps During Closed-Door Hearing
Global Research and Consulting Group (December 8, 2023): Equity in Education in the Post-COVID Era
Zine Libraries (October 10, 2023): Indigenous zines at Harvard
National Indian Law Library (Sep-Oct 2023): 2023 Mascots, Hate & Native Representation News Stories
Kansas City University (August 1, 2023): Tackling the Dental Care Desert
Harvard Library (September 1, 2023): Everyday Indigeneity: Championing Native voices
Harvard School of Dental Medicine (July 27, 2023): Tackling the Dental Care Desert
Harvard Graduate School of Design (July 21, 2023): Addressing Disability
Harvard Center for Education Policy Research (July 16, 2023): Post-COVID Learning Losses
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health (July 16, 2023): When Wildfires Make Your Air Unhealthy
Harvard Office for Equity, Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging (May 25, 2023): Standing Out, United
Harvard Office for Equity, Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging (May 10, 2023): Harvard Police Chief ‘100%’ Backs Student and Alumni Demands After Leverett Swatting Attack
The Hill (April 6, 2023): ‘Traumatized’ Harvard students held at gunpoint by campus security in ‘swatting’ incident
ABC News (April 5, 2023): Harvard students face dorm raid by armed officers after hoax threat
Business Insider (April 5, 2023): Harvard police raided a dorm where 4 Black students were living after someone made a false call about an active threat: 'We are traumatized'
TeenVogue (April 5, 2023): Harvard Police Searched Dorm With Guns After "Swatting" Hoax
The Root (April 5, 2023): How 'Swatting' Led to Four Black Harvard Students Being Held at Gunpoint by Campus Police
The Marshall Project (April 4, 2023): Swatting: A Curated Collection of Links
IEEE Integrated STEM Education Conference (March 11, 2023): An Innovative Scheme for College Ranking: A Socialization Perspective