Loan Tran

Loan Tran is a migrant originally from Ho Chi Minh City, Viet Nam who has called North Carolina home for more than two decades. As an organizer, they’ve been involved in liberation struggles for migrants, LGBTQ people, communities of color, and youth and students in the U.S. South and across the country. As a writer, they are best known for their piece, “Calling IN: A Less Disposable Way of Holding Each Other Accountable”, and their work has been included in publications such as The Solidarity Struggle: How People of Color Succeed and Fail at Showing Up For Each Other In the Fight For Freedom (2016) and Gendered Lives: Intersection Perspectives (7th Edition, 2019). They currently serve as the National Director of Rising Majority, a national coalition of social movement left organizations working for a radical democracy and a regenerative economy where they can live into their belief that only a movement rooted in solidarity across identities, geographies, and issues can transform our lives.