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Bà Nguyễn Thị Hồng

Bà Nguyễn Thị Hồng

"Grandmother Hồng" — BAH ngwee-EN tee HONG.

Seventies. She arrived in the 2000s as a child, with her family, in the Mekong's first major wave of climate displacement. A master aquaculturalist: oyster genetics, salt-tolerant rice, bay-current navigation.

She sits on the Old Bay Council representing Vịnh Mới, and is currently restoring a deepwater oyster reef off Smith Island.

The kind of elder who serves tea, listens, asks one question, and reorganises your plan in three sentences.

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