Roy Vũ earned his Ph.D. in history at the University of Houston and is a history professor at Dallas College, in Irving, Texas. He serves on the advisory boards of Plant It Forward and Foodways Texas. He is writing a book titled Farm-to-Freedom: Vietnamese Americans and Their Home Gardens, under contract for publication with Texas A&M University Press (2024). He and his wife, Ngọc, reside in Irving, Texas.