Ha Nguyen was born in Saigon. Her family fled the country one day before the fall of Saigon in 1975 and settled in Fort Wayne,IN as her mother younger brother Hien Vodinh who lived in Fort Wayne at the time,had sponsored his sister family to immigrate to the United Sate as refugees. About a year and a half later the family decided to move out to San Diego, CA. After graduating from San Diego State University with a Fine Arts degree, she studied at The Fashion Institute of Design and Merchandising in Los Angeles where she earned an Associate Arts degree in Fashion Design.