GREEN BAY – This year, there are about 3,500 more Hmong people in Green Bay and around 4,300 more in Brown County than what was estimated in 2020, making the area the fifth largest Hmong community in Wisconsin.
Wisconsin also has the third largest Hmong population in the United States after Minnesota and California.
This year is the 50th anniversary of the Hmong resettlement in America after the Vietnam War. Kerry Yang, President and Co-founder of HMONG Hands, a nonprofit that “Lend[s] a helping hand to the Hmong and Wisconsin community,” says that, “Those who experienced the atrocities of war barely speak on it, leaving much history to be lost.”…