PROJECT: Develop an Intergenerational LGBTQ+ Community Space to bridge the social gap between different generations of Vietnamese, Latine, and Black immigrants, refugees, and their children.

James Huỳnh (he/him/his) grew up in desert-turned-suburbia Fontana, CA. He is the son of Vietnamese refugees who come from the city of Huế, Việt Nam. Huỳnh is a PhD student in Community Health Sciences at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health. He is also a Health Policy Research Scholar, a fellowship funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. His scholarly and activist commitments are to address the health impacts of racial capitalism, heterosexism, and patriarchy among queer Asian/Americans. He focuses on community well-being, family and kinship, and grassroots organizing as paths to challenging systems of power. Prior to graduate school, Huỳnh was a Fulbright Fellow in Việt Nam.

Outside of academia, Huỳnh is Chair of the Board of Directors of Viet Rainbow of Orange County (VROC), a grassroots organization that builds community and mobilizes intergenerationally primarily with LGBTQ+ Vietnamese Americans and their loved ones through research, education, and advocacy.

Huỳnh earned his MA in Asian American Studies and MPH in Community Health Sciences from UCLA and a BA in Human Biology from Stanford University.