Mads Lê

Mads Lê grew up in Pomona, CA, a city at the edge of Los Angeles county and the Inland Empire. mads has worked alongside and within Vietnamese and broader Southeast Asian organizing networks over the last ten years in both Los Angeles, CA and Philadelphia, PA. At UCLA, mads’ research explores Vietnamese diaspora and community archives’ impacts on community-identity formation, memory, and health as it relates to Agent Orange.