Tani Mitsui Brown
Tani Mitsui Brown is a Fulbright Fellow currently carrying out her Fulbright English Teaching Assistantship in Vietnam during the 2013-2014 academic year. She is a 2010 graduate of Princeton University where she studied Religion and African-American Studies and captained the Women's Varsity Basketball Team. Tani is also a frequent contributor to the Huffington Post College section. Tani's family resides in Southern California, where she first learned how to play basketball with the Venice Rockets.
Updated October 2013
Stories from This Author
A Hapa Girl In Vietnam
Oct. 24, 2013 • Tani Mitsui Brown
I’m currently carrying out a Fulbright English Teaching Fellowship in Northern Vietnam. When I sit down to meals with my students, they are always surprised at my skill with chopsticks. I try to explain to them in broken Vietnamese: cha tôi là người Mỹ gốc Phi, mẹ tôi là Mỹ gốc Nhật. My father is African-American. My mother is Japanese-American. I’ve been using chopsticks since the day I was born. This always draws a wide-eyed smile of exhilaration across my …
