Racial Justice Fellows, 2007

Tram Nguyen
Executive Editor
Colorlines Magazine

TRAM NGUYEN, executive editor of ColorLines Magazine, is an award-winning writer and editor with a particular interest in race, immigration and organizing. Her writing has appeared in the San Francisco Chronicle, the anthology “Asian Americans: The Movement and the Moment,” Amerasia Journal, AlterNet, New California Media, the Boston Globe, the anthology “The New Faces of Asian Pacific America: Numbers, Diversity and Change in the 21st Century,” and the anthology “New Horizon: 25 Vietnamese Americans in 25 Years.” She received her B.A. in 1996 from UCLA in English with a minor in Asian American Studies. Tram was editor of UCLA's Asian American bimonthly publication and later worked as editor at LA Youth. She covered education for the San Diego Union-Tribune and edited “Gidra,” a magazine serving the Los Angeles Asian-American community. She won a 2003 New California Media Award for coverage of civil liberties. Her book, “We Are All Suspects Now: Untold Stories From Immigrant Communities After 9/11,” was released in 2005.

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