Vincent Pham
Vincent N. Pham is a Portland, OR based scholar, trainer, and consultant. With over 20 years of experience working in higher education, Dr. Pham is an expert facilitator, seasoned teacher. A respected researcher with 50 talks and presentations on topics ranging to cultural belonging and citizenship in popular culture to organizational and institutional issues of diversity and inclusion, he has been recognized by The National Center for Institutional Diversity (2013), has been interviewed by NPR’s Code Switch, US News, Daily Beast, and has served on the awards jury of the San Diego Asian Film Festival and Seattle Asian American Film Festival.
Dr. Pham earned his Ph.D. in Communication. Originally from the south suburbs of Chicago, he worked in community colleges, implemented organizational structures for non-profit bike cooperatives in central Illinois, and designed curriculum for ethnic studies and media programs in north county San Diego at California State University San Marcos. Throughout his work, he is energized by possible futures of humans acting collaborative in accordance to a shared vision and has always sought to bring folks together through times of technological, economic, and socio-cultural shifts.
His approach utilizes an in-depth intersectional analysis of power. He brings his expertise and experiences designing experiences, cultivating community, and building organizational structures to re-envisioning and rebuilding workplace dynamics towards more just and equitable futures. Importantly, it focuses on our collective power to reshape power dynamics through communication and structure that allow us to imagine new ways of being with each other and holder each other responsible.