Current source roster
Asian Affairs Commission
At-large commission member
Appointment August 28, 2024; listed term end January 1, 2027
End is scheduled term expiration, not confirmed departure.
People / Government & civic life
Cecilia Nguyen
Asian Affairs Commission vice-chair
A psychology graduate and civic-program professional whose commission work connects Asian communities with local institutions and services.
Cecilia Nguyen is vice-chair of Tulsa’s Asian Affairs Commission. Her documented background includes psychology studies, research coordination and a Tulsa Service Year fellowship at Leadership Tulsa. Commission minutes trace her work on community outreach and institutional connections.
Career & public service
- 2020
Community-college degree
Fellowship biography dates the associate degree to 2020.
- 2023
Psychology graduation
Fellowship biography dates the bachelor’s degree to 2023.
- Before the 2024 fellowship
Research coordination
Leadership Tulsa describes prior Laureate Institute for Brain Research work.
- 2024–2025
Leadership Tulsa fellowship
Named fellow in the program’s 2024 cohort.
- August 28, 2024
Commission appointment
City roster dates her at-large appointment.
- March 4, 2025
Resource connections
Minutes identify national contacts and a library liaison assignment.
- June 3, 2025
Committee slate
Named committee chair in an approved slate while absent.
- November 2026 verification
Vice-chair
City website lists the current office; exact start date unresolved.
People, institutions and the relationships between them
Following the connections
Each step below represents a documented relationship. Dates and roles belong to the individual links; a path can span different periods.
personCecilia Nguyen
commissionAsian Affairs Commission
Officer duties operate within collective advisory decisions.
personCecilia Nguyen
organizationLeadership Tulsa
Historical fellowship employment, distinct from public office.
personCecilia Nguyen
An academic degree, without an inferred clinical credential.
Documented relationships
8 documented relationships · Historical and current roles remain distinct.
Current source roster
Asian Affairs Commission
Asian Affairs vice-chair
Current City roster, November 2026 verification
Exact officer-election date not established.
Historical record
Asian Affairs Commission
Cultural Hubs and Community Advocacy committee chair
2025 committee slate
Committee term distinct from continuing commission membership.
Historical record
Leadership Tulsa
Leadership Tulsa fellowship program manager
2024–2025 fellowship
Program year; exact employment dates and later continuation not inferred.
Historical record
Tulsa Service Year
Tulsa Service Year fellow
Historical record
University of Tulsa
Bachelor’s degree in psychology
Historical record
Tulsa Community College
Associate degree
Historical record
Laureate Institute for Brain Research
Research coordinator
Before 2024–2025 fellowship
Employer welcome describes prior role; exact dates unresolved.
Following recommendations through to results
Public meetings, recorded decisions and the annual report provide ways to assess the commission’s work. For Nguyen’s documented outreach, the useful next questions concern whether contacts led to accessible services, whether participants shaped recommendations and what officials did with them. A planned meeting, a public presentation and an adopted policy are different stages; the records cited here should be read at their stated stage.
What the vice-chair can decide
The bylaws assign the vice-chair responsibility for acting in the chair’s absence, helping oversee programs, leading officer elections and supporting communication with city officials. Decisions require a quorum and a majority vote. Parisa Pilehvar is the current chair. Nguyen can organize and help advance the body’s work, while adoption of commission positions remains collective.
Psychology and student leadership
Tulsa Service Year’s alumni biography says Nguyen earned an associate degree at Tulsa Community College in 2020 and a bachelor’s degree in psychology at the University of Tulsa in 2023. It identifies student leadership in the Vietnamese Student Association, research-assistant work in the university’s trauma and resilience laboratory, and social-media work for APIDA Tulsa. These are the fellowship program’s biographical descriptions; the research role does not establish a clinical qualification.
From research coordination to a civic fellowship
Leadership Tulsa’s welcome for its 2024–2025 Tulsa Service Year fellow describes Nguyen’s earlier work as a research coordinator at the Laureate Institute for Brain Research, managing two mental-health research projects and organizing committee events. Nguyen described her new Leadership Tulsa position as program manager. The fellowship’s alumni roster independently places her in its 2024 cohort. These records document a career transition, while leaving exact hiring and departure dates unresolved.
Leadership development and public representation
The fellowship biography places Nguyen’s interests in Asian American mental-health research, community initiatives and institutional education. In her own 2024 professional update, she linked her commission confirmation to her Leadership Tulsa fellowship and described work on alumni communications and APIDA presentations. The appointment is corroborated by the City roster; her account of professional activities remains attributed. The organizations provide distinct settings for her work, without establishing that either directs her commission decisions.
Connecting the commission with existing resources
March 4, 2025 minutes record Nguyen serving as a contact for national organizations interested in Tulsa’s Asian communities. They identify planned contact with the National AAPI Mental Health Association and a meeting with Asian Americans Advancing Justice. The same minutes designate Nguyen the principal contact with Tulsa City-County Library during discussion of a possible Asian resource center. This establishes outreach and a liaison assignment, rather than employment by those organizations or proof that a center opened.
Committee leadership and practical outreach
The June 3, 2025 minutes name Nguyen as Cultural Hubs and Community Advocacy chair in a slate approved by eight affirmative votes; she was absent from that meeting. By August she was reporting on outreach opportunities and a change to quarterly commission newsletters. After a presentation about 211 Eastern Oklahoma, she observed that existing services could make a separate resource center unnecessary. That comment documents her response to a service presentation, not a formal decision to abandon a project.
From events toward sustained community work
November 2025 minutes record Nguyen reporting on community-event outreach and collecting names of leaders for forums planned for the following year. The current commission page includes a leadership roundtable among its initiatives. Independent Tulsa Flyer reporting in August 2026 describes the commission’s discussion of shifting attention toward Asian-owned small businesses and connecting owners with existing resources. That reporting provides context for the body’s changing priorities, without establishing a particular vote by Nguyen or measured outcomes from the roundtable.
Interpretation
Where her institutional connections matter
Nguyen’s documented path connects university research, nonprofit leadership development and municipal advisory work. Her clearest public contribution in these records is connecting people and institutions with resources and opportunities to participate. That can influence which needs reach city officials, but the evidence does not establish control over public budgets, independent regulatory authority or ownership of the institutions with which she works.
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Sources & corrections
Research checked 2026-11-03. Roles and financial figures retain their source dates. Sections appear only when supported material is available; an omitted section is not a finding that no such relationship exists.
- City of Tulsa board appointments ↗
primary institutional record · Checked 2026-11-03
Asian Affairs Education Advocate and Human Rights Asian Affairs liaison seats.
- City of Tulsa Asian Affairs Commission ↗
primary institutional record · Checked 2026-11-03
Current officers, purpose and 2026 goals.
- Asian Affairs Commission bylaws revised April 1, 2025 ↗
primary institutional record · Source date 2025-04-01 · Checked 2026-11-03
PDF pages 3, 6–9: advisory role, officers, public meetings, quorum and decisions.
- Asian Affairs Commission 2025 minutes ↗
primary institutional record · Source date 2025 · Checked 2026-11-03
PDF p19: June 3, 2025 committee slate and eight-aye approval; pp19–20 Islamic Society presentation.
- Tulsa Service Year: Cecilia Nguyen ↗
primary institutional record · Checked 2026-11-03
Named alumni biography, Leadership Tulsa placement, education and portrait.
- Tulsa Service Year current and past fellows ↗
primary institutional record · Checked 2026-11-03
Cohort 5: 2024 alumni list.
- Leadership Tulsa welcomes Cecilia Nguyen ↗
primary institutional record · Source date 2024 · Checked 2026-11-03
Institutional welcome embedded in named fellow repost; 2024–2025 placement and prior Laureate research coordination.
- Cecilia Nguyen: commission appointment and fellowship update ↗
attributed self-report · Source date 2024 · Checked 2026-11-03
Self-report explicitly joins at-large commission identity to Leadership Tulsa fellowship; not independent verification of claimed outcomes.
- Asian Affairs Commission March 4, 2025 minutes ↗
primary institutional record · Source date 2025-03-04 · Checked 2026-11-03
PDF p1 national contacts and library liaison; pp2–3 deliberation over leadership-development goals.
- Asian Affairs Commission August 5, 2025 minutes ↗
primary institutional record · Source date 2025-08-05 · Checked 2026-11-03
PDF p3 Nguyen on existing 211 resources, outreach events and quarterly newsletter.
- Tulsa Flyer: Asian business ownership and commission focus ↗
independent reporting · Source date 2026-08-17 · Checked 2026-11-03
Sam Stockley with Documenters; August 4 discussion and proposed small-business focus. Institutional context, not an individual Nguyen vote.