Anh was born in Da Nang, Vietnam, and grew up in San Jose, California. Her experiences as a first-generation Vietnamese American, replete with code switching and cross-cultural mishaps, shaped her decision to pursue a career in building more inclusive institutions. Anh graduated from UC Berkeley with a degree in English literature and then cut her teeth in the nonprofit sector. She has raised funds to build schools along the Mekong, studied the habits of Asian American donors, and made grants to national youth development organizations. This summer, she interned at What Works Cities, a Bloomberg Philanthropies-funded initiative housed under Results for America that focuses on helping local governments improve their capacity to make and implement evidence-based and data-driven policy. Her projects over the summer included supporting the replication efforts of early childhood language development programs; researching promising solutions to housing and homelessness; and preparing for the launch of a policy accelerator program. Before coming back to Princeton, she spent some time in Japan, soaking in Sapporo’s onsens, enjoying Hokkaido melons and Furano flower fields, and deepening her Japanese language skills.