Thanh Tân is a Vietnamese American storyteller and filmmaker based in Seattle, Washington. An award-winning journalist who started her career in local television newsrooms, her reporting and writing aims to generate conversation and solve problems, resulting in work that has been featured across all platforms, from This American Life and The Texas Tribune to The Seattle Times and The New York Times. As a brand storyteller, she has traveled around the world telling true stories for Microsoft about the impact of tech and joined Starbucks in 2021 to craft mission-driven narratives about the global ritual of coffee as a means to connect people.

Passionate about history and making sense of her own experiences as a child of Vietnamese boat refugees, Thanh created and hosted Second Wave, a groundbreaking podcast series from KUOW and PRX centered on the stories of Vietnamese people after the Vietnam War. In 2020, she co-founded Viet Fact Check to fight the scourge of misinformation impacting non-English speaking communities. When Kabul fell in August 2021, she co-founded Viets for Afghans, a Vietnamese American-led volunteer mutual aid project that mobilized communities to parlay our shared lived experience into helping today’s refugees. That work led to her directorial debut, the 5-part docuseries for KCTS called Refuge After War. 

She is currently working on her next projects, including a film that reveals the untold stories of South Vietnamese soldiers who fought the last battle of the Vietnam War and a multimedia documentary that will deep dive into the human toll of misinformation on the Vietnamese American community and solutions to navigate this era of disinformation and deep fakes.