She was a refugee herself in the '70s, when her family fled Vietnam. Now she's helping with the flood of migrants into Denver.
, who have been coming to Denver in large groups since the beginning of December. She was stunned when she learned that the site was already at capacity for donations and was directed to take them to another drop-off site. There she found people of all demographics offering aid, and a staffer thanked her."I said, 'It's okay. It's really okay,'" she recalls."'You don't know this about me, but I'm a refugee, too.
"When I looked around, I knew I was very different from other kids," Vương-Sandoval says."I was one of the very few kids of color in my classes, and that really, for me, left an impression, because I knew...that I would forever be in the minority." Without having someone with lived experience in refugee crisis leadership, policy decisions tend to slide away from the root of the issue."That's why many of these solutions have not been effective or durable," explains Vương-Sandoval."That's why many of these solutions have been a very temporary Band-Aid and are, at times, missing the mark."
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