Mother Mushroom

Mother Mushroom is the pen name of Nguyễn Ngọc Như Quỳnh, a Vietnamese blogger and human-rights activist known for writing about corruption, environmental concerns, police abuse, and freedom of expression. She began blogging in 2006 and later co-founded the Network of Vietnamese Bloggers. Arrested in 2016 and sentenced to ten years in prison, she was released and sent into exile in the United States in 2018.