{"id":12283,"date":"2017-08-02T15:07:14","date_gmt":"2017-08-02T20:07:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/news\/?p=12283"},"modified":"2017-08-08T15:51:36","modified_gmt":"2017-08-08T20:51:36","slug":"mpr-news-profiles-alums-journey-from-thai-refugee-camp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/news\/2017\/08\/02\/mpr-news-profiles-alums-journey-from-thai-refugee-camp\/","title":{"rendered":"MPR News profiles alum&#8217;s journey from Thai refugee camp"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-12287\" src=\"\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2017\/08\/AAEAAQAAAAAAAARJAAAAJDYxOTAyZDdlLTE3ODUtNDk4ZC1iMTI2LWJjYjdhZDNiYjI5Zg-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2017\/08\/AAEAAQAAAAAAAARJAAAAJDYxOTAyZDdlLTE3ODUtNDk4ZC1iMTI2LWJjYjdhZDNiYjI5Zg-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2017\/08\/AAEAAQAAAAAAAARJAAAAJDYxOTAyZDdlLTE3ODUtNDk4ZC1iMTI2LWJjYjdhZDNiYjI5Zg.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/>Twin Cities immigration attorney\u00a0<strong>Mai Neng Moua &#8217;07 (WMCL)\u00a0<\/strong>was born in a refugee camp in Thailand after her parents fled Communist-run Laos. Moua and her family continued to face challenges after arriving in the U.S. in 1982. They faced racism, name-calling, and vandalism to their\u00a0home and property.<\/p>\n<p>MPR News correspondent\u00a0Doualy Xaykaothao profiled Moua <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mprnews.org\/story\/2017\/07\/13\/born-in-thai-refugee-camp-now-a-twin-cities-attorney\">in a story that aired July 13 on Minnesota Public Radio News<\/a>. The profile shines a light on\u00a0Moua&#8217;s hard work as a high school student\u2014she studied, held a job, and took care of her family. She graduated from the University of St. Thomas in 2004 and got her J.D. from William Mitchell College of Law in 2007.<\/p>\n<p>In <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mnmoualaw.com\/\">her law practice<\/a>\u00a0Moua represents refugees from Asia and South and Central America.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I know that there&#8217;s so much more that I could do, and there&#8217;s so much more that I need to do. That&#8217;s what continues to push me, to be trying to be better, so that someday I can have an impact on those around me.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Twin Cities immigration attorney\u00a0Mai Neng Moua &#8217;07 (WMCL)\u00a0was born in a refugee camp in Thailand after her parents fled Communist-run Laos. Moua and her family continued to face challenges after arriving in the U.S. in 1982. They faced racism, name-calling, and vandalism to their\u00a0home and property. MPR News correspondent\u00a0Doualy Xaykaothao profiled Moua in a story &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/news\/2017\/08\/02\/mpr-news-profiles-alums-journey-from-thai-refugee-camp\/\" class=\"more-link\">MPR News profiles alum&#8217;s journey from Thai refugee camp<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4909,"featured_media":12302,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3,5],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-12283","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-features","8":"category-news","9":"entry"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12283","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4909"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12283"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12283\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}