Tag: leader
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Walz appoints Hmong leader to serve on University of Minnesota’s Board of Regents
Tim Walz on Tuesday appointed a prominent Hmong leader to the University of Minnesota’s Board of Regents, filling the seat of a member who died in May. Bo Thao-Urabe, executive director and co-founder … Read Full Article
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U of M regent, local Hmong leader dies at age 52
Kao Ly Ilean Her, a Hmong-American leader and Board regent, has died at age 52. Her, an active civic leader who devoted her life to improving the lives of Hmong women, died Thursday with “a few of her … Read Full Article
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U Regent, Hmong community leader Kao Ly Ilean Her dies at 52
Kao Ly Ilean Her, leader and advocate in Minnesota’s Hmong community and the first Hmong person to serve on the University of Minnesota Board of Regents, has died. She was 52. Read Full Article
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Hmong community honors late leader, Col. Vang Fong
Two months after his death, the large Hmong community in Fresno, CA held a funeral for Col. Vang Fong, reports ABC30 this weekend. A horse drawn carriage carried Fong’s casket at the funeral attended … Read Full Article
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Hmong leader on increasing social justice
One Wisconsin member of the Hmong community shared her experiences with racial and gender justice work in today’s political climate, at this year’s UW-Eau Claire Martin Morensen Education Lecture … Read Full Article
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Hmong Leader 1960s until 2000s
Major General Vang Pao “Nais Phoo Vaj Pov” who served under the Royal Lao Army from 1961, Vang Pao worked with the American C.I.A. Bill Lair who supplied weapons to the 35,000 Hmong-Mien Special … Read Full Article
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Hmong New Year celebrations in Fresno canceled for the first time ever
The Central Valley’s Hmong community canceled their week-long celebration due to COVID-19 concerns. A leader in the Hmong community, Pao Yang grew up in the … Read Full Article
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Sai Shoua Yang, Hmong community leader, dies of COVID-19 at 88
From the remote mountains of Laos to a new life on U.S. shores, Sai Shoua Yang was a tireless advocate for the Hmong people. But his advocacy was abruptly cut short — Yang, 88, of Forest Lake, died of … Read Full Article
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Community mourns loss of another Hmong leader due to COVID-19
And what it means is he becomes the leader of, I think it was 10 villages in a region,” Yang said. RELATED: Surgeon says COVID-19 cases in the Hmong community spread through cultural, family … Read Full Article
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COVID-19 claims life of Hmong American leader and Secret War veteran
Fu Vang, a Hmong community leader and former lieutenant colonel in the Secret War, died on Thanksgiving Day after several weeks in the hospital fighting COVID-19. Read Full Article
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COVID-19 claims life of Hmong American leader and Secret War veteran.
A Hmong community leader and former Secret War lieutenant colonel died on Thanksgiving Day after several weeks in the hospital fighting COVID-19. During the Vietnam War, as the CIA funded a covert … Read Full Article