LABOR ON THE MOVE: DC Jobs With Justice Summer Intern Tony Nguyen

(Metropolitan Washington Council, AFL-CIO)Sixteen-year-old Tony Nguyen (r) is DC Jobs with Justice’s 2011 Summer Benjamin Banneker Fellow.  A Vietnamese American from the District, Nguyen starts his senior year at Woodrow Wilson High School this year.  In his work with DC JWJ so far, he’s been involved with Labor in the Pulpits, the Respect DC Campaign and the Caring Across Generations Campaign.  In his free time Nguyen volunteers at the Vietnamese American Community Service Center and Chinatown Community Cultural Center teaching hip hop dance,  and helping elderly Chinese citizens learn English and computer skills.  Nguyen says that the Benjamin Banneker Fellowship gives him a valuable “opportunity to give back to my culture’s community.”  After graduating from high school next year he would like to go to college to study topics relevant to his community activism, though he also really likes to play football, and might become a dentist one day.  
- story/photo by Lillian Walker Shelton