Cuong Quy (CQ) Huynh

Mr. Cuong Quy (CQ) Huynh is a Co-founder, General Manager, and Chief Financial Officer of a certified community development financial institution non-profit loan fund, Rende Progress Capital, to invest in immigrant and minority entrepreneurs.  Mr. Huynh is a former W.K. Kellogg Foundation Fellow (2014-2016).  He was a former Council on Legal Education Opportunity (CLEO) Fellow in 2000.  In November 2021, Mr. Huynh received the CLEO “Greater Equality” Award for his work with immigrant and minority entrepreneurship along with his work to invest in the refugee and immigrant youth in America.  He was a U.S. Small Business Administration 2021 Emerging Leaders Program Fellow.  He was also the 2022-2023 Council on Foreign Relations International Affairs Fellow in Canada.  Mr. Huynh was a Scholar in May 2023 of the Goldman Sachs 10,000 Small Businesses Program.  

Furthermore, in May 2023, Mr. Huynh published an article on minority and immigrant entrepreneurs in Canada with the title, “Immigrant entrepreneurs need targeted support,” with Policy Options, a digital magazine of the Institute for Research on Public Policy, May 2023.bIn October 2023, Mr. Huynh received the 2023 National Minority Enterprise Development Week “Access to Capital Award” sponsored by the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Minority Business Development Agency on October 24, 2023, for his work to increase access to financial capital opportunities for the minority and immigrant entrepreneurs.

Mr. Huynh was also a senior policy analyst for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) where he started as a Presidential Management Fellow.  He has analyzed over twenty-five Earth and space science programs totaling in excess of $800 million. Mr. Huynh graduated with a law degree from the University of California College of the Law, San Francisco as a Thurgood Marshall Fellow.  He also graduated with a master’s degree in public policy from The University of Chicago as a Woodrow Wilson Fellow.  Furthermore, he graduated with college and departmental honors with a major in Sociology from University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA).