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Ka Vang

Contributing Columnist | Opinion

Ka Vang is a contributing columnist for the Minnesota Star Tribune. She focuses on historically marginalized communities.


Ka Vang is a writer, playwright and children's book author. She is the vice president of equity, inclusion, diversity and access for Meet Minneapolis, the tourism, convention and visitors' bureau for the city of Minneapolis. She has also worked in higher education, as a journalist for the St. Paul Pioneer Press, and as a senior leader for Minnesota Public Radio and American Public Media. A Hmong American, she was born on a CIA military base in Laos at the end of the Vietnam War and immigrated to the U.S. in 1980. She grew up in the Frogtown neighborhood in St. Paul and now lives in Prescott, Wis.
Recent content from Ka Vang
A homeless camp with several dozen Hmong residents have set up near the Bruce Vento Trail in St. Paul.

Vang: The good — really good — but also the bad and the ugly among Hmong lives in Minnesota

From women's rights and the success of Suni Lee to a Hmong homeless encampment in St. Paul, there are highs and lows.