Thao Hà

Thao Hà is a professor at MiraCosta College. She earned a doctorate in sociology from the University of Texas at Austin and has published in the areas of race, immigration, and Vietnamese American experiences in the South. She was an advisor and associate producer of Seadrift, a 2019 documentary about racial violence and KKK intimidation in the 1970s against Vietnamese Americans in a small Texas fishing town. She serves as board president of the Vietnamese American Arts and Letters Association, executive director of Collective Freedom, and board chair of the Doan Foundation for the Arts. She lives in Oceanside, California.