BIO

I am a journalist and writer based in Hanoi, Vietnam. I go beyond the headlines to examine long-lasting and overlooked impacts of unjust policies on marginalized groups. Some of my notable reporting covered Vietnamese workers living in factories to keep the tech supply chain going during the pandemic, the illicit Vietnam-China surrogacy trade, and commentary on the narrative surrounding 39 Vietnamese migrants found dead in a container truck in Essex, UK. My work has appeared in the Wall Street Journal, the Guardian, Rest of World, Al Jazeera, Mekong Review and others.

I was the Southeast Asia reporter at Rest of World from 2024-2025.

Before that I was Vietnam Content Coordinator at Earth Journalism Network and an editor at Mekong Eye.

I’m fluent in English, Vietnamese and Polish, and hold a degree in Economics from the University of Cambridge, UK.

Awards/Honors

• 2025: Bronze winner, the Telly Awards, Series-Video Journalism for Gig Workers Rising
• 2025: Honorable mention, Asian American Journalists Association Awards, Excellence in Business/Consumer/Tech Reporting, for two stories on ShopeeFood in Vietnam
• 2025: Finalist, the SOPA Awards, Excellence in Photography for story on portraits of gig workers in rare moments off the clock
• 2024: Longlist for One World Media Women’s Solutions Reporting Award for story on Samsung workers becoming beauticians
• 2023: Labor x Tech Fellow, Rest of World
• 2022: Winner, SOPA Awards, Excellence in Business Reporting for Rest of World story
• 2022: Winner, SOPA Awards, Excellence in Reporting on Women’s Issues for story Sixth Tone story
• 2022: Grantee of Earth Journalism’s Green Recovery Project
• 2020: Winner, the ILO’s 2020 Global Media Competition on Labour Migration and Fair Recruitment
• 2020: Grantee of the Pulitzer Center’s Southeast Asia Rainforest Journalism Fund
• 2020: APWLD Media Fellow on gendered impacts of Covid-19
• 2019: APWLD Media Fellow on feminist development justice

Portrait photo by Yen Duong.