Kimberly Nguyen will speak at noon on Monday, May 15, as UNMC marks Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month. There will also be a trivia and game event today.
Nguyen is a Vietnamese-American diaspora poet originally from Omaha. Her work can be found in diaCRITICS, Hobart, Muzzle Magazine, The Minnesota Review and others.
She was a recipient of a Beatrice Daw Brown Prize, and she was a finalist for Frontier Poetry’s 2021 OPEN and New Poets Awards and Palette Poetry’s 2021 Previously Published Poem Prize. She was a 2021 Emerging Voices Fellow at PEN America and currently is a 2022-2023 Poetry Coalition Fellow.
The event will be held at the Sorrell Center, Room 3002. UNMC Chancellor Jeffrey P. Gold, MD, will open the event, and Nebraska Medicine CEO Jim Linder, MD, will close it. For colleagues who plan to attend in-person, lunch is available for the first 50 who RSVP here and attend. The presentation also can be viewed on Zoom.
In addition, from noon to 1 p.m. today in Sorrell Center Room 2014, there will be a trivia and bingo game testing knowledge of AAPI culture, featuring food catered by Star India. Prizes during the event will include a Lego bonsai or orchid set.
Truly proud of our Asian American Pacific Islander community at UNMC and Nebraska Medicine! In a difficult time, these events bring a lot of positive energy and we welcome everyone to attend who is interested in learning more. Congrats to Tori Ho and Stephanie Dong and their boards for their leadership!
Hope you can make it today for this event to welcome Kimberly Nguyen!