A freshman at Bowdoin College and recent graduate of Phillips Exeter Academy, Nhu (Anna) Tran is from Atlanta, Georgia. Beginning from a young age, she experienced several forms of racism especially living in a predominantly white community. Beginning a new journey in high school, she used this opportunity to fully embrace her identity and advocate for the spread of Asian awareness. At her high school, she started her own cultural club, Vietnamese Society, and was a four-year member of the Asian Advisory Board. She was a Senior Reporter for her school newspaper, the Exonian, and she was a Senior Writer for an organization called WEVisionxPEA that moves to empower women through stories worldwide.

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Compelled to break down the stereotypical barriers surrounding writing and literature, she began her work on Seeing Myself Writing in her freshman year of high school and founded SeeingMyselfWriting.com, allowing our Asian youth and in particular, women, to view the importance in their identity through the works of successful Asian/Asian-Americans and women in the writing world. SeeingMyselfWriting allows Asian youth from all over to connect across the cultural confines of their communities.