Tracing Embodied Histories
For Hmong women, a way of existing in the world is to regenerate kinship with spirits of skies, spirits of lands, and our ancestors.
Karen Bao Vang
Karen Bao Vang is a Hmong woman navigating as a Cultural Studies Ph.D. Candidate at the University of California, Davis with her parents and children. She understands and is grateful for her three children and her parents’ supporting her through her education. She is interested in regenerating different ways of knowing, being, and doing within Hmong families. Her research areas include spirits and ancestral memories as knowledge and literacy.