Thuy Vo Dang has a doctorate in ethnic studies from the University of California, San Diego, and is the archivist for the Southeast Asian Archive and Regional History at the UC Irvine Libraries. Linda Trinh Vo has a doctorate in sociology from the University of California, San Diego, and is an associate professor in the Department of Asian American Studies and director of the Vietnamese American Oral History Project at UC Irvine. Tram Le has a master of arts in Asian American Studies from the University of California, Los Angeles, and is the associate director of the Vietnamese American Oral History Project at UC Irvine.