This summer, PaDao Yang will not be spending her days at the beach or working a part-time job. Instead, she’ll be giving back to her community by sharing her passion for the arts with young Hmong refugee students.

Yang, junior sociology major from Brooklyn Park, first heard about the Phillips Scholar program when she was in high school in the Upward Bound program. Then at Augsburg she met Nou Chang, a past Phillips Scholar who was sharing her experience with a group of students. Continue reading “True to the heart” →