Thien-Kim Bui (they/them)
Senior Fellow | thienbui@pdx.edu | (503) 725-6676
Thien-Kim is a geography PhD student studying water conflict, governance, and collaboration in the US West. Since Thien-Kim has been with NPCC, they have presented NPCC research about the Columbia Basin Partnership Task Force (American Association of Geographers 2023 Annual Meeting), public participatory mapping as deliberative process (University Network of Collaborative Governance 2023 Retreat), and co-facilitated a workshop on how to do human ecology mapping (Society for Applied Anthropology 2024 Annual Meeting). In addition to mapping worlds, Thien-Kim also builds worlds onstage as a freelance choreographer, dancer, and actor. They believe that collaborative processes, whether in governance or in the arts, offer the promise of new ways to understand and relate to one another.
Thien-Kim holds a BA from Reed College.