Our Team

Robin Gurung

Co-Executive Director

Robin Gurung is the co-founder and co-executive director of Asian Refugees United (ARU) and oversees all ARU programs in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. Born in Bhutan and raised in a refugee camp in Nepal, he resettled in the U.S. in 2012 through the Refugee Resettlement Program. Drawing on two decades of lived refugee experience, Robin organizes to empower refugee youth as community change agents. He co-founded The Storytellers, a collective focused on displacement, identity, and belonging, and Camp for Emerging Leaders (CAMP), an annual leadership program for Bhutanese organizers, artists, and activists. He currently leads ARU’s Rapid Response effort in response to the detention and deportation crisis facing Nepali-speaking Bhutanese Americans across the U.S.

Trang Tran

Co-Executive Director

Trang identifies as a queer, gender-nonconforming, 1.5 Vietnamese immigrant who aspires to live their truth as bright and powerful as the full moon. Born in Saigon and growing up in the East Bay, Trang's work is focused on building within the Vietnamese community to heal trauma and uplift power. Through community organizing and creative expressions, they strive to build a cultural healing hub that centers intergenerational nourishment of traditional food and drink. In their free time, they dance, write poetry, bond with their siblings, breathe, and spread love and compassion.

Dohee Lee

Director of Arts and Healing

Parsu Adhikari

Parsu Adhikari is a passionate photographer and filmmaker who has a deep interest in storytelling and community organizing. He was born in Bhutan and Raise in Bhutanese refugee camp Goldhap, where he learned the art of storytelling through drama. His love for photography and film making led him to study them and sharpen his skills. where he continues to pursue his passion for storytelling through the visual medium. As a part of his work he directed the documentary film THE WAITING EYES FOR REUNION (A documentary film based on Bhutanese refugees struggle in camp).

JaeEun Jun

Hải Võ

Development Director

Hải was raised by parents from two delta villages in southern Việt Nam - Mỹ Tho and Chợ Gạo (Tiền Giang). Hải identifies as a queer 2nd generation Việt Southeast Asian, cultural artist and writer passionate about ancestral life ways, homeland connections, and the creative arts to liberate all people, especially those most marginalized.