Dr. Nguyen is also known as cô Maihan. She taught Vietnamese at the University of California
Los Angeles. In Fall 2015, she taught English as a Second Language at Kapiolani Community
College, and in Fall 2022 she joined the HELP program at the Second Language Studies
Department here at the University of Hawaii at Manoa.

About her educational background: She received her B.A. in Second Language Studies, M.A. in
Linguistics, M.A. in TESOL (Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages), and Ph.D. in
Applied Linguistics. She loves teaching Vietnamese and is happy to see her students improve
their listening, speaking, reading, and writing in Vietnamese. In her free time, she loves watching
YouTube videos about food and culture in Vietnam.