Wildfire Season

About the artist

Anna Nguyen is a social worker and freelance artist based in San Francisco. She is a proud first-generation Chinese/Vietnamese American from Orange County, CA. Anna completed her BA in Psychology from UCLA and Masters in Social Welfare from UC Berkeley. She currently works as a government program analyst with a focus on early childhood in child welfare for the California Department of Social Services. She has also worked as a child welfare social worker and a child trauma and early childhood development researcher. Anna has created illustrations and comics for UC Berkeley, Mills College, Eastwind Books of Berkeley, Yale Child Study Center, and various publications. Anna’s passion for mental health advocacy, racial equity, and healthy childhood development is evidenced in her art on Instagram, @annatbnguyen_.