Dr Carina Hoang is a former Vietnamese refugee and award-winning author and publisher
In 2007 Carina moved to Perth, WA with her family.
In 2011 – Carina was honoured as one of Western Australia most courageous and inspiring women, being one of 100 women inducted into the Western Australia Women’s Hall of Fame.
In 2012 Carina was appointed as Special Representative for Australia for UNHCR.
Other recognitions, including:
- 2011: City of Belmont’s 2011 Volunteer of the Year Award
- 2012: Karl Farrell Inspiration Award
- 2013: nominated for Human Rights Award
- 2018: nominated for Australian of the Year Award
- 2018: 2018 Soulful Award – World Server
Since 2009 Carina volunteers to assist families from different parts of the world to search for graves of their loved ones in former Indonesian refugee camps. And from these harrowing searches she has been able to assist people find graves of family members and be able to fully grieve the loss of their loved ones.