Vi Nguyen (she/her/hers) was born in Vietnam and resettled and raised on the unceded territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish) & səlil̓wətaʔɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) peoples, where she continues to live and work.
She currently serves on the Executive Team at the Law Foundation of BC as the Director of Grants & Programs. With over 25 years of progressive leadership in the non-profit, philanthropic and public sectors, Vi’s experience includes being the National Manager of Public Outreach and Strategic Stakeholder Engagement at the Federal Anti-Racism Secretariat; 13 years at Vancouver Foundation, including almost a decade leading a team as Director of Grants and Community Initiatives, responsible for grantmaking through a range of issue areas and leading efforts to shift towards racial equity grantmaking with the launch of the first community investment stream committed to funding Black, Indigenous and racialized leadership and grassroots movements. She has worked as a frontline youth worker for large multi-service social agencies and served on the board of directors for Vancouver Coastal Health.
Art, while not her direct practice, has been a constant thread in Vi’s professional life. She is deeply committed to the idea of art as necessary tool for social change, reform, and reclamation.
Vi holds an MA from the School of Child and Youth Care Studies at the University of Victoria. She is one half of a parenting duo to two inquisitive and pretty rad humans, both of whom love and appreciate eating bún bò Huế as much as she does.