Dana Sachs Author

Dana Sachs is a journalist, activist and author living in Wilmington, North Carolina. Her books include non-fiction narrative The Life We Were Given: Operation Babylift, International Adoption, and the Children of War in Vietnam (2010). She is the co-author, with Nguyen Nguyet Cam and Bui Hoai Mai, of Two Cakes Fit for a King: Folktales from Vietnam (2003) and co-translator of numerous Vietnamese short stories into English. In 2016, Dana co-founded Humanity Now: Direct Refugee Relief, a U.S.-based non-profit that raises money to fund grassroots aid projects aimed at helping improve the lives of the tens of thousands of displaced people in Greece.