I was born to Hmong refugee parents in a small town in rural Wisconsin. I lead with these two facts because from my earliest memories, I was hyper conscious of how differently I looked compared to my majority white peers. Being a son of parents who couldn’t speak English, raised in a three-bedroom household with 8 siblings, and being marked as a low income household are just a few of the many compounding factors that positioned young people like me to fail in this country.

How does this tie into leadership?