Oral History Interview, Shannon Thao (2435)
Abstract
In her 2022 interview with Lori Lopez, Shannon Thao speaks on her experiences as an undergraduate student at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She details her key role in advocating for the development of the APIDA Cultural Center, alongside its proposal process, visions, and contributors. She also shares the ways in which her involvement resulted in personal challenges and growth, and how that has impacted her future. This interview was conducted for the Asian American Studies Project for the UW-Madison Archives & Records Management oral history collection.
Subject
APIDA Student Center
Asian American Studies Program
Hmong American Student Association
Asian American Student Union
Multicultural Student Center
Division of Diversity Equity Educational Achievement internship
campus hate speech incidents
Permanent Link
http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1793/85710Type
Recording, oral
Description
In her 2022 interview with Lori Lopez, Shannon Thao speaks on her experiences as an undergraduate student at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She details her key role in advocating for the development of the APIDA Cultural Center, alongside its proposal process, visions, and contributors. For more information on this project, go to https://asianamerican.wisc.edu/about/our-stories/. To learn more about this oral history, download & review the index first (or transcript if available). It will help determine which audio file(s) to download & listen to.