Pao Lor
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Pao Lor

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In Modern Jungles, Pao shares his enduring and unassuming childhood journey, leaving an ancient culture in Laos in the 1970s and establishing a new life in the United States in the 1980s. The memoir is the first of its kind, capturing the beginning of the Hmong American experience and the transcendental transformation of their cultural identity, history, and ways of life. Pao was born in Laos and lived in two refugee camps in Thailand before resettling to Long Beach, California, in 1980. Today he lives in Kimberly, Wisconsin, with his family. He is a Patricia Wood Baer Professor of Education at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay and chairs the Professional Program in Education. Prior to joining UW-Green Bay, he was a middle/high school administrator, high school/middle school teacher, university academic advisor, and college and high school soccer head coach. His Ph.D. in educational administration (2001) is from UW-Madison. Pao enjoys spending time with family and friends, traveling, playing soccer, riding his bikes and motorcycles, relaxing, doing house chores, and taking care of the family's yard and vehicles. Pas focuses his research on the Hmong American experience and has published articles and book chapter on Hmong American educational attainment, leadership, women, teachers, and charter schools, and the Wat Thamkrabok Hmong experience. From 2004 to 2016, he wrote over forty newspaper columns for the Appleton Post-Crescent, and over the last ten years, he has given over one hundred thirty presentations on various topics including a presentation on the progress of Hmong American women at Manchester College at Oxford University. Pao is one of few "full" Hmong American professors and endowed professors (Patricia Wood Baer Professor of Education) in the United States, and his writing has appeared in Multicultural Education, Journal of Cultural Diversity, Journal of Southeast Asian American Education and Advancement, Hmong Studies Journal, and Hmong and Americans: From Refugees to Citizens.
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    • A Hmong Refugee’s Childhood Story of Survival
    • By: Pao Lor
    • Narrated by: Craig Pierce
    • Length: 5 hrs and 47 mins
    • Release date: 03-31-23
    • Language: English
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