Mytoan Nguyen-Akbar, PhD
Founder and Principal Research Consultant , Community and Cultural Impact Partners, LLC
CSDE Research Areas:
- Migration and Settlement
- Wellbeing of Families and Households
In the News:
Mytoan Nguyen-Akbar, PhD, is a global sociologist who made a career shift into applied research in government, philanthropy, and now founded her own research consulting practice in order to make research and evaluation resources more accessible to grassroots entities. She was a Mellon/American Council of Learned Societies Public Fellow (now known as Leading Edge) who spent 6 years at the City of Seattle as Impact and Assessment Manager helping to transform and operationalize research, data, and assessment with a community lens. She most recently was Project Lead on a Bloomberg Philanthropies Initiative on Procurement Transformation, and was embedded in the Mayor's Innovation and Performance Team/City Budget Office. Today, Dr. Nguyen-Akbar is Principal and Founder of Community and Cultural Impact Partners. Some of her research interests include:
- Arts and cultural policy and administration
- Inclusion in creative industries, the creative economy, and emerging artist support networks
- Promising practices in grantmaking
- Community-engaged research methods
- Local and global ethnographic methods
- Vietnam and diasporic studies