Dang Yang, Director of Multicultural Affairs, November 2020
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Title
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Dang Yang, Director of Multicultural Affairs, November 2020
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Language
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English
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Date
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November 30, 2020
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Creator
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Brian Dombrowski
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Contributor
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Alexis Polencheck
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Abstract
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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.