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My Monday hero is Mee Moua who is a Hmong American politician, and is currently the president and executive director of the Asian Americans Advancing Justice - AAJC.
Mee Moua was born in Xieng Khouang, Laos in 1969. Her father was a medic in the Vietnam War. When Moua was five years old, at the end of the war, the family run away to Thailand, and four years later they moved to the United States.
In 2002,
Moua won a seat in the Minnesota Senate and became the first Hmong-American to be elected to a state legislature. She left the state senate after two terms to become vice president of strategic impact initiatives for the Asian & Pacific Islander American Health Forum, a national health justice organization.
Currently, she serves as the president and executive director of Asian Americans Advancing Justice - AAJC, a national nonprofit founded in 1991 to protect civil and human rights. The AAJC advocates for an America in which all Americans are able to equally benefit from, and contribute to, the American dream.
Moua earned her undergraduate degree from Brown University, a master's degree in public policy from the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas, and a Juris Doctor from the University of Minnesota Law School.
She is married and has three children.
Moua believes that community engagement is a change catalyst and said: “It is to all of our detriment to look at race narrowly. We need to work together to dismantle the systems that devalue the experiences of minority groups.”
Minority groups should not only be supported, but also nurtured and mentored for success for the power of minority is in its ability to elicit creativity and imagination.
Mee Moua, you are such an inspiration to me!
XO,
Sharon
Mee Moua was born in Xieng Khouang, Laos in 1969. Her father was a medic in the Vietnam War. When Moua was five years old, at the end of the war, the family run away to Thailand, and four years later they moved to the United States.
In 2002,
Moua won a seat in the Minnesota Senate and became the first Hmong-American to be elected to a state legislature. She left the state senate after two terms to become vice president of strategic impact initiatives for the Asian & Pacific Islander American Health Forum, a national health justice organization.
Currently, she serves as the president and executive director of Asian Americans Advancing Justice - AAJC, a national nonprofit founded in 1991 to protect civil and human rights. The AAJC advocates for an America in which all Americans are able to equally benefit from, and contribute to, the American dream.
Moua earned her undergraduate degree from Brown University, a master's degree in public policy from the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas, and a Juris Doctor from the University of Minnesota Law School.
She is married and has three children.
Moua believes that community engagement is a change catalyst and said: “It is to all of our detriment to look at race narrowly. We need to work together to dismantle the systems that devalue the experiences of minority groups.”
Minority groups should not only be supported, but also nurtured and mentored for success for the power of minority is in its ability to elicit creativity and imagination.
Mee Moua, you are such an inspiration to me!
XO,
Sharon
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