Cường Phạm is a London-based researcher, community activist and writer. He finished a Masters in Southeast Asia studies at SOAS University of London, where his thesis explored the Vietnamese diasporic experience through hip-hop. He is also actively involved in the local East & Southeast Asian communities in London, working with Hackney Chinese Community Services and An Viet Foundation. Through his work at the grassroots, he has co-curated Record, Retrieve, Reactivate (2018) which explored the history of the Southeast Asian community centred around the An Viet Foundation. Cường is also the co-founder of Indigo Magazine, a platform for new voices in/from Southeast Asia and beyond. In his spare time Cường likes to hunt down old vinyl, concentrating mainly sounds from Saigon, from early 1960s to 1975, which he slowly digitises.