Dang Yang, Director of Multicultural Affairs, November 2020

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Dang Yang, Director of Multicultural Affairs, November 2020

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Interviewee: Dang Yang
Interviewer: Brian Dombrowski
Date: November 30, 2020
Format: Video Recording, Zoom
Location of Interview: Eau Claire, Wisconsin
Transcriber: Brian Dombrowski
Additional Transcription Equipment used: Otter.ai
Project in Association with: University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire

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Oral history transcript

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November 30, 2020

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Brian Dombrowski

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Alexis Polencheck

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Dang Yang is a Director for the Office of Multicultural Affairs at UW Eau Claire. He identifies himself as a Hmong American that was born and raised in the Midwest of the United States. Dang discusses the how the COVID-19 affects his personal life as well as his professional life. In his discussion he emphasizes the challenges of operating an office in at a higher learning institution as well as the issues of racism that came about with the onset of the Coronavirus and isolated racially charged events that happened during the pandemic.

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