Subject: FW: Travel Pool Report #1 - YSEALI background
From: White House Press Office<[email-masked]>
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Date: Tue, 24 May 2016 21:44:33 -0500

*From:* Jérôme CARTILLIER [mailto:[email-masked]] 
*Sent:* Wednesday, May 25, 2016 9:32 AM
*To:* Velz, Peter T. EOP/WHO <[email-masked]>
*Subject:* Travel Pool Report #1 - YSEALI background 

 

Good morning from cloudy "Ho Chi Minh City."

Per WH :

Background on Introducer:‎

Tu Ngo, a member of the YSEALI Network, will introduce the President. After completing her studies in the US in 2009, Tu and her colleagues co-founded Yola, now a leading education service in Vietnam. Yola has helped thousands of Vietnamese students to gain acceptance at more than 150 universities, with 50% of the students earning scholarships or financial assistance. Tu is also Co-founder of ELSA, a project designed‎ to help non-native English speakers improve their language abilities. ELSA won the 2016 South by Southwest Startup competition. Tu was the first Vietnamese pupil from a state-owned high school to receive a scholarship from Stanford University.

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About town hall:

The President will give brief remarks and then take questions from the audience. The audience consists of approximately Vietnamese ‎800 young people, all of whom are members of YSEALI.‎

 

"Jérôme Cartillier"

"AFP White House Correspondent"

"Cell : 202-374-9164"

"@jcartillier"