Christine was a Seeding Change fellow in 2021 at Hmong Innovating Politics (HIP). Below is her reflection with Seeding Change this past summer. I grew up in Butte county, in a small town an hour north of Sacramento, where my grandfather resettled with his family after fleeing Southeast Asia after the Vietnam (Secret) War. My parents don’t share much about what happened during the war, but I can hear the ache in my mother’s voice when she talks about her life before the war; before she had...
