Vietnamese American Youth Leadership Conference

"Forming Leaders for the Vietnamese American Community"

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Program

The following is a tentative schedule for the Vietnamese American Youth Leadership Conference 2004.  Please visit us again to view a final VAYLC 2004 Program Schedule.

Wednesday | Thursday | Friday | Saturday

Thursday, July 1, 2004

Note:  We recommend Business Attire for today's events.

8:00 a.m.     Breakfast/Registration - George Mason University, Arlington Campus

9:00 – 9:30 a.m.    Conference Introductions

9:45 – 10:15 a.m.    Chat with a Republican

Mina Nguyen - Community Liaison, Bush-Cheney 2004 Campaign

10:45 – 11:15 a.m.    Chat with a Democrat

Victoria Lai - APA Outreach Director, John Kerry Campaign

12:00 – 1:00 p.m.    Lunch & Keynote Speaker

Professor Viet Dinh - Professor of Law, Georgetown University Law Center

1:15 – 2:15 p.m.    Political Empowerment & Involvement on the Local Level

	Christine Chen - Executive Director, Organization of Chinese Americans
	Doua Thor - Policy Advocate, Hmong National Development

2:30 – 3:30 p.m.    APA/Vietnamese-Americans in Technology & the Sciences: Making History

Dr. Eugene Huu-Chau Trinh - Astronaut & Director, Physical Sciences Research Division, NASA Headquarters

3:45 – 5:00 p.m.    Public Policy and Advocacy

	Jared Genser - President, Freedom Now
	Daphne Kwok - Executive Director, Asian Pacific American Institute for Congressional Studies

5:30 - 7:30 p.m.    Reception - Arlington Hilton & Towers

Network with Congressional Staff and members of national nonprofit organizations