Bellevue-based Executive Development Institute’s (EDI) has named Thoa Nguyen as a featured chef to create innovative fusion cooking for its annual benefit dinner and auction, “Inclusion Fusion.”

Nguyen was born in Saigon and raised in Cho Lon, the city’s Chinatown district. She is the owner of three Seattle Asian restaurants: Chinoise Cafe in Madison Park; Thoa’s Restaurant in Downtown Seattle; and Wabi Sabi Sushi Bar in Columbia City.

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EDI’s dinner and auction will be held May 20 at SODO Park, (3200 1st Ave. South, Seattle.

The dinner features fusion cooking from Hispanic and Asian cultures.

EDI provides culturally tailored leadership programs.