Sacramento-based Valley Vision works to address social, economic and environmental health through advocacy and research. Kathy Saechou serves as a project manager at Valley Vision. She oversees the work related to the organization’s clean air and climate impact area.
An Oak Park native, Saechou is Mien American whose parents immigrated to the United States from Northern Laos in the 1980s. Saechao graduated from Sacramento State with a bachelor’s of arts in geography with a focus in metropolitan planning, and has been Valley Vision’s project manager since 2022.
Solving Sacramento spoke with Saechou about her work, how to get people to care about climate change and why being informed is key…