Tami Nguyen is the Senior Communications Specialist at the Boston University Center for Antiracist Research.

Tami oversees the Center's professional websites and social media platforms, including those associated with the Center's Founding Director, Dr. Ibram X. Kendi. Her responsibilities include developing and implementing social media strategies, managing media relations, and handling photography and videography projects. Additionally, Tami provides support on media and communications initiatives, including the Director’s book, print, online, audio, television, and film projects.

Being a communication professional with a background in sports and entertainment prepared Tami for the following successes in the last three years: achieving an 11.1% increase in engagement on social media platforms, averaging 5.8 million interactions; photographing and promoting six New York Times bestsellers and four national book tours; coordinating interview appearances for STAMPED FROM THE BEGINNING, an Oscar-shortlisted documentary feature with Netflix and OneStoryUp, a film production company co-founded by Oscar and Emmy Award-winning director Roger Ross Williams; coordinating logistics for a TV series with ESPN+ in collaboration with Religion of Sports, a media company co-founded by Gotham Chopra; supporting and researching for the Be Antiracist podcast in partnership with Pushkin Industries, an audio production company co-founded by Malcolm Gladwell; along with a myriad of other projects from the Center for Antiracist Research and The Emancipator, working with incredible scholars, community organizers, and advocates.

Tami’s work is rooted in the teachings of Buddhism, primarily the belief that transforming collective suffering into mindfulness, compassion, peace, and liberation is needed for the struggle to build an antiracist world.