Teaching Experience

Summer Hmong Language Instructor                              

Chico State Enterprises

Developed project-based curriculum, learning materials, and extensive lesson plans for a Hmong heritage language course for high school students of varying language abilities 

Graduate Student Instructor                                          

Berkeley School of Education, UC, Berkeley

Selected appropriate readings, developed effective and engaging learning activities, and facilitated weekly lectures and discussions in virtual classes with 40+ undergraduate students from diverse cultural and socioeconomic backgrounds

Lecturer                                                                                    

California State University, Sacramento

Developed curriculum and learning outcomes for ethnic studies courses in the Full Circle Project, which serves first-generation, economically disadvantaged Asian, Pacific Islander, and Desi undergraduate students; facilitated weekly lectures and discussions for 100+ students

Professional Experience

Project Lead

United Hmong with Disabilities

Lead the development of a comprehensive Hmong language disability dictionary with a working group of Hmong speakers, educators, and community members 

Writing Center Coordinator                                                 

CSU, Chico

Oversaw day-to-day operations of the CSU, Chico Writing Center through supervision and coordination of 13 instructional student assistants who are part of a collective bargaining unit

Program Advisor                                                                       

Upward Bound Projects, CSU, Chico

Monitored and provided regular reporting on college admission and high school graduation requirements for 62 first-generation, low-income students per academic year

Upward Bound Program Assistant                                          

Fresno City College

Monitored and provided regular reporting on college admission and high school graduation requirements for 87 first-generation, low-income students

Selected Workshops and Presentations

  • “HMong Youth Reclaim Language and Culture Through Digital Vitalities,”American Association for Applied Linguistics, Denver, CO, March 22-25, 2025

    “Participatory Learning and Endangered Language Reclamation on Instagram,” Symposium Title: Transformative Digital Spaces: Disrupting Traditional Notions of Learning and Reimagining Educational Possibilities Through Social Media, American Educational Research Association Conference, Philadelphia, PA, April 11-14, 2024

  • “Designing for the Virtual Classroom: Social Presence, Placemaking, and Belonging” Berkeley School of Education Research Day, University of California, Berkeley, April 2024

  • “The Affordances and Challenges of Teaching an Endangered Language on Instagram,” International Conferences on Indigenous Language Documentation, Education, and Revitalization, hosted by the Council of Indigenous Language Organizations, Bloomington, IN, October 12-14, 2023

  • “Digital Storytelling and Hmong Language Reclamation,” Colloquium Title: Hmong heritage language reclamation: Heteroglossic concerns in sustaining a severely endangered language, American Association of Applied Linguistics Conference, Portland, OR, March 2023

  • “Envisioning HMoob Futurity in and for Education and Educational Studies,” American Educational Studies Association Conference, Pittsburgh, PA, November 2022

  • “Teaching to Sustain, Recognize, and Foster Refugee Knowledge and Epistemologies,” Refugee Teaching Institute, July 2022, University of California, Merced

  • “Beyond Visibility: Centering Hmong Stories & Developing Hmong Agency”, Butte College, Oroville, CA, May 2021

  • Hmong Legacy: My Culture, My Story, 10-part storytelling and writing workshop series, CSU, Chico, Spring 2018, Fall 2018 and Spring 2019

Other Work

I founded Hmong Language Movement, LLC to create Hmong language learning experiences. This work is informed by my dissertation training and research, especially my training in Indigenous language revitalization methods.

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