Diedre Thu-Ha Nguyen is Mayor Pro Tem of Garden Grove, a laboratory cancer scientist, wife and mother of three active sons.
As a Council Member for the City of Garden Grove, she has worked closely to build coalitions with the Garden Grove Unified School District, nonprofits, labor, and first-responders to collaboratively promote education, public safety, and enhance business growth and career opportunities in the City of Garden Grove.
Diedre was first elected to serve on the Garden Grove City Council in 2016 and re-elected in 2018. During the pandemic, she has championed financial relief for renters who desperately need it, assistance to small businesses, and funding for non-profits providing direct help to local residents.
California must take the necessary steps to get COVID-19 under control. That means people wearing masks. It means the state implementing truly universal contact tracing to track and isolate the virus. This is the single most important thing government can do to get the pandemic under control, help people feel safe enough to go into public again, and get our businesses, schools, and community life going again.
If we don’t follow the facts and science our economy will continue to drag. Our children and families will be disrupted as schools open, then close based on outbreaks. Entire industries will remain shuttered and and the jobs they produce will disappear. Advocating for the right, fact-based policies, I will help lead California out of this pandemic.