Featured Speaker

Patricia Chau Nguyen

Patricia Chau Nguyen serves as Assistant Dean of Students and Director of the Asian and Asian American Center at Cornell University. She has held multiple positions at a various public and private colleges, ranging from residential life to; multi-cultural affairs; to Greek life; to human resource work. She also has a strong affinity to advising cultural-based student organizations. She is especially interested in "out-of-classroom" education, and she has organized a number of training programs for several on- and off- campus constituencies. She has been a part of a series of workshops and consultancies throughout the country on such topics as applied ethics, religious pluralism, moral conversations; and meaning-making for quarter-life students. She focuses on multicultural affairs in higher education and building an instructional capacity to support students from historically marginalized backgrounds.