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Subject
- Ethnicity Lao (2)
- Origin Cambodia (2)
- Origin Lao Pdr (2)
- Ethnicity Cambodian (1)
- Ethnicity Dominican (1)
- Ethnicity Karen (1)
- Ethnicity Khmer (1)
- Ethnicity Oromo (1)
- Ethnicity Somali (1)
- Ethnicity Tanzanian (1)
- Ethnicity Ugandan (1)
- Ethnicity Venezualan (1)
- Ethnicity Vietnamese (1)
- Origin Djibouti (1)
- Origin Dominican Republic (1)
Creator
Contributor
Language
- Description:
- Filbert Seko Tongola was born in Dar-es-Salaam, Tanzania in 1970. He studied at Tambaza Secondary School and the Dar-es-Salaam Maritime Institute (DMI). He worked as an Able Bodied (AB) at Sea Express while also working as a research assistant to American and European Ph.D. students doing research in Tanzania. He met his first wife, an Americ...
- Creator:
- Tongola, Seko
- Contributor:
- Venditto, Elizabeth; Yang, Mai
- Created:
- 2015
- Contributed By:
- University of Minnesota, Immigration History Research Center
- Last Updated:
- 2021-01-26
- Description:
- Vongsay is an award-winning poet and playwright. Her critically acclaimed play Kung Fu Zombies vs Cannibals was named “Best Production of 2013” by L’etoile Magazine. Her work has been made possible with support from organizations as the Jerome Foundation, the Joyce foundation, MRAC, and MSAB. She has a show on MPR called “The Interpretor”.
- Creator:
- Vongsay, Saymoukda
- Contributor:
- Yang, Mai (Editor)
- Created:
- 2015
- Contributed By:
- University of Minnesota, Immigration History Research Center
- Last Updated:
- 2021-01-26
- Description:
- Dr. Sawuya Lubega was born in Kampala, Uganda. She came to the United States in 1991 to do research in HIV. She later decided to work as a doctor and complete a residency in family practice. She did a fellowship in geriatrics at the University of Minnesota. She has also lived in Virginia, Indiana, and New York.
- Creator:
- Lubega, Sawuya
- Contributor:
- Venditto, Elizabeth; Guzman, Ricardo Bennett
- Created:
- 2015
- Contributed By:
- University of Minnesota, Immigration History Research Center
- Last Updated:
- 2021-01-26
- Description:
- Rothana Walbolt was born in Battambang, Cambodia and grew up in Khao I Dang refugee camp in Thailand. She arrived in the United States in Portland, OR in 1985. She and her family lived there for five months before moving to Minnesota to join other family members. She is an advocate for Cambodian communities in Minnesota. She is the Executive ...
- Creator:
- Walbolt, Rothana
- Created:
- 2015
- Contributed By:
- University of Minnesota, Immigration History Research Center
- Last Updated:
- 2021-01-26
- Description:
- Muktar Mohammed is from Harar, Ethiopia. He left the country during the political upheaval of the 1970
- Creator:
- Mohammed, Muktar
- Contributor:
- Venditto, Elizabeth; Guzman, Ricardo Bennett
- Created:
- 2015
- Contributed By:
- University of Minnesota, Immigration History Research Center
- Last Updated:
- 2021-01-26
- Description:
- Kyaw Khaing was born in Thailand. He and his family came to the United States as refugees between 2008 and 2009. He currently works as employment counselor and assists Karen refugee people finding jobs and establishing themselves in the United States.
- Creator:
- Khaing, Kyaw
- Contributor:
- Venditto, Elizabeth
- Created:
- 2015
- Contributed By:
- University of Minnesota, Immigration History Research Center
- Last Updated:
- 2021-01-26
- Description:
- Kunrath Van Lam was born in Cambodia in 1972. Her father was a chemist and her mother was university-educated. Most of her family was killed when the Khmer Rouge came to power, and Kunrath, her parents, and sister escaped to a refugee camp in Thailand. Her family resettled in St. Paul, Minnesota on November 7, 1983. Kunrath and her husband, K...
- Creator:
- Lam, Kunrath
- Created:
- 2015
- Contributed By:
- University of Minnesota, Immigration History Research Center
- Last Updated:
- 2021-01-26
- Description:
- Hung No was born in Saigon, Vietnam and he served as an officer in the South Vietnamese navy. After the South Vietnamese government surrendered to North Vietnamese forces in 1975, he fled the country to avoid going to a labor camp. He escaped with other officers in a boat and were rescued by the U.S. navy in the South China Sea. He lived in a...
- Creator:
- Ngo, Hung
- Created:
- 2015
- Contributed By:
- University of Minnesota, Immigration History Research Center
- Last Updated:
- 2021-01-26
- Description:
- He is an entrepaneur and community advocate. He was born in Boston, MA while his father was in graduate school in the United States. Ederick was raised in Venezuela and left in his 20's because instability there. He moved to Chicago and finally settled in Minnesota in his late 20's. He is the co-founder of Ra
- Creator:
- Lokpez, Ederick
- Contributor:
- Venditto, Elizabeth; Tychsen, Ketmanee Mary (Editor); Guzman, Ricardo Bennett (Translator)
- Created:
- 2015
- Contributed By:
- University of Minnesota, Immigration History Research Center
- Last Updated:
- 2021-01-26
- Description:
- Dante Candelario Pastrano was born in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. His family moved to San Juan, Puerto Rico, in 1966. He grew up and went to school there. He moved to Sioux City, IA, in 1987, where he worked in a meat-packing plant and computer manufacturing company. He moved to Minneapolis in 1996, where he worked at a computer company a...
- Creator:
- Pastrano, Dante
- Contributor:
- Venditto, Elizabeth (Editor)
- Created:
- 2015
- Contributed By:
- University of Minnesota, Immigration History Research Center
- Last Updated:
- 2021-01-26
- Description:
- Banlang Phommasouvanh was born in Laos in 1946. She studied in France on a scholarship. After the outbreak of war in Laos, she and her family fled the country and came to the United States. Banlang has a BA from Southern Illinois University Carbondale and an MAE from Ball State University. She was a Minneapolis public school teacher.
- Creator:
- Phommasouvanh, Banlang
- Contributor:
- Venditto, Elizabeth; Tychsen, Ketmanee Mary (Editor)
- Created:
- 2015
- Contributed By:
- University of Minnesota, Immigration History Research Center
- Last Updated:
- 2021-01-26
- Description:
- Abdirahman Kahin was born in Djibouti and immigrated to the United States in 1996. He has lived in Minnesota since 1997. After working for several years in media production, he created Afro Deli, a popular East African restaurant in Cedar-Riverside, Minneapolis. In 2015, he opened its second location in St. Paul.
- Creator:
- Kahin, Abdirahman
- Created:
- 2015
- Contributed By:
- University of Minnesota, Immigration History Research Center
- Last Updated:
- 2021-01-26
