Hmong

Lee worked part of her residency at a community clinic serving Hmong in the Sacramento area.

Cambodian, Laotian, Vietnamese and Hmong refugees are “the human legacies of the wars in which the U.S. was implicated.”

Oakland’s new mayor was, as the New York Times noted, suddenly the nation’s most prominent Hmong elected official.

Hmong, Armenian, Black Arab and Brazilian communities in the U.S. say they are not represented accurately in the official numbers.

Growing up in Laos, she learned tricks of the trade from her Hmong community, for whom gardening was an important part of everyday life.