LABOR ON THE MOVE: DC Jobs With Justice Summer Intern Tony Nguyen
Friday, July 1, 2011
(Metropolitan Washington Council, AFL-CIO)Sixteen-year-old Tony Nguyen (r) is
DC Jobs with
Justice’s 2011 Summer Benjamin Banneker Fellow. A Vietnamese American
from the District, Nguyen starts his senior year at Woodrow Wilson High
School this year. In his work with DC JWJ so far, he’s been involved
with Labor in the Pulpits, the Respect DC Campaign and the Caring Across
Generations Campaign. In his free time Nguyen volunteers at the
Vietnamese American Community Service Center and Chinatown Community
Cultural Center teaching hip hop dance, and helping elderly Chinese
citizens learn English and computer skills. Nguyen says that the
Benjamin Banneker Fellowship gives him a valuable “opportunity to give
back to my culture’s community.” After graduating from high school
next
year he would like to go to college to study topics relevant to his
community activism, though he also really likes to play football, and
might become a dentist one day.
- story/photo by Lillian Walker Shelton