Gina Vue comes from a big family with seven siblings who taught her how to put aside differences and collaborate — something the Clovis Unified mom of two says she plans to do on the school board, if elected.
Vue is a clinician and CEO of a local autism center with more than 20 years of experience working with children. She is challenging incumbent High Awtrey, the board’s current president, to represent Clovis Unified’s Area 4.
Education has played an important role in her life, Vue said, and she knew at an early age that she wanted to pursue a career working with needy children. In high school, Vue spent her summer and winter breaks helping her mom take care of babies and toddlers with Down syndrome at a nonprofit.
Vue is a first-generation American. Her parents were “children of war” who migrated from Laos to the U.S., eventually settling in Fresno.
“I have an American name, Gina. It wasn’t like an Asian name,” Vue said. “I always felt that this is my country, and I’m as good as you, you are as great as me, and we work together to help the other generations.”