Jenny Le’Dang
President
Jenny Le’Dang was born in New Orleans and raised in Slidell, Louisiana. Jenny is a University of New Orleans alumni who got her bachelor's degree in Computer Science in 2019. She is currently a Junior UX Engineer at BusPatrol. Her goal is to become a UX Designer creating impactful prototypes for software.
She has been involved with her local VSA, UNO Vietnamese Student American Association, known as UNO VASA, since her freshmen year of 2015. Throughout the years, Jenny has been actively involved with VSA. Her sophomore year, she was President of her VSA, and gain one of the top 3 VSAs in North America award by UNAVSA. Following years, she was External Vice President, Counselor for Camp Delta X, Senior Advisor for UNO VASA 2018-2020, UNAVSA-15 Family Leader, Media Member for Camp Delta 12, UVSAGC Media Cabinet Member 2019-2020, and Media Director for Camp Delta 13. VSA is a community she passionately cares about and wants to help grow the the future leaders of tomorrow.
Outside of VSA, she enjoys spending time with her family and friends, video editing, cooking, arts, dancing, watching anime, traveling, rock climbing, hiking, mint chocolate chip ice cream, and chocolate (white chocolate is not real chocolate). Oh. Also, one year, she ate wayyy too many carrots that it literally turned her skin orange. From that point on, she has been forever scarred by carrots.
Mary Vu
INternal Vice President
Mary Vu is a current student at Xavier University of Louisiana. She is majoring in Computer Science with a minors in Public Health. As someone who says she’ll always be loyal to New Orleans, it’s the fact that she truly does love the city she was born and raised in. She also never skips a good food/ happy hour deal in the city and won’t hesitate to share the information! She has been involved with XULAVA from the start of her undergrad experience, from her freshmen year she has been very active and involved in her local VSA and regional VSAs. During her sophomore year, she was the Vice President of XULAVA and was apart of UVSA GC’s Logistics Committee for Summit 2020. She feels that VSA is such a strong community and the feeling of belonging and giving back is very prominent here. She wants to continue that experience and be able to help other feel inspired as she feels.
Outside of her VSA involvement, she enjoys relaxing alongside with her friends and family, working out, playing volleyball, crying to sleep, building unwanted Discord bots to annoy her friends, going to see live music and local food festivals, and learning about random facts that can be used in future conversations. She can also play piano but sadly enough, her skills have only allowed her to learn anime theme songs instead of your typical classical classics. Other than that, she believes in always helping people and those so when you need it, don’t hesitate to bother her with any task or advice!
Sun Lee
External Vice President
Sun Lee was born in Seoul, South Korea and has lived in Dallas, Texas and Metairie, Louisiana. He is a Louisiana State University graduate with a bachelor's degree in Animal Sciences. He hopes to use this degree to work in conservation to help educate and interest the public in wildlife. He has two cats and hopes to take care of many more animals in the future.
Sun started his VSA journey freshman year, immediately becoming an involved member in VSA-LSU and serving as Internal Vice President his sophomore year. He has also served as a Counselor for Camp Delta XI and XII, and he is Counselor Director for Camp Delta XIII. Sun also served as Family Programming Co-Director for Summit II and was Co-Emcee for Date Auction 2017.
When not doing VSA work or procrastinating schoolwork, Sun enjoys volleyball, movies, kpop, random YouTube videos, and naps.
Kiet Phung
Treasurer
Kiet Phung was born in Vietnam and came to Louisiana at the age of 7. Kiet was born half Chinese and Vietnamese but sadly can only speak and understand Chinese. He attended University of New Orleans starting in 2016. He currently owns and manages his own boba shop named Dream House Cafe. Kiet plans to open more boba shops and other businesses in the years to come.
Kiet has been involved in his school’s VSA, University of New Orleans Vietnamese-Asian Student Association, or known as UNOVASA, since 2016. He has taken a few leadership positions within UNOVASA throughout the years as Treasurer and Social Chair. Kiet has also obtained positions as Summit II: Identity’s Programming team, Camp Delta XII’s Cuisine team, and Camp Delta XIII’s Cuisine Director. He has also obtained awards from GC itself getting the Gulf Coast “Future” Award and Gulf Coast’s Finest. Outside of VSA Kiet enjoys boba, Korean bbq, sushi, ice cream, shopping, dancing, volleyball, basketball, cooking, and feeding Jenny wayyy too many carrots so she can turn orange.
Gabrielle Pham
Secretary
Gabrielle Pham (a.k.a. Gabby) was born and raised in Lafayette, Louisiana. She is currently enrolled at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette pursuing her bachelors in chemical engineering. She’s a mother of two turtles, Squirtle and Tiger and she loves them very much. Aside from VSA, she’s active in other organizations on campus such as the Society of Women’s Engineering, and occasionally volunteers with Habitat for Humanity.
Gabby started her VSA journey her freshman year at her college’s VSA known as the Vietnamese Student Organization at UL (a.k.a. VSOUL). In her freshman year she accomplished being an auctionee with Leslie Nguyen and raised over $1500 for the CPP, Pacific Links Foundation. Not only that, but would continually be an active member. At the end of her freshman year she was one of the recipients for the Member of the Year award and the Gulf Coast Future Award. She continued her journey by joining VSOUL’s 2018-2019 Executive Board as Secretary. Throughout her term she worked hard with her executive board to bring new ideas and events like the Golden Lotus, and at the end of her term she’s received the Executive Board Award.
During her term, she was also apart of Camp Delta XII staff as Marketing and Design. Currently, she is an active member at VSOUL and is apart of Camp Delta XIII staff as Counselor.
Aside from VSA and school, Gabby is pursuing her dream of opening an at-home bakery called “Chu Huy Bakery”, experimenting and creating trendy treats.