Hmong Student Club: A Case Study

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My goal is to build relationships and to network with both the older and younger generation as well as being the bridge between. As a public relations specialist in the future, I want to raise an awareness and share the Hmong culture as well as it’s traditions with the everyone, whether that maybe the younger Hmong generation or people who are genuinely curious about others and spread it through social media all via networking. Also as the PR of North Hennepin Community College Hmong Student Club, I am working towards a proposal with the president and the board of Hmong club to create an event revolved around storytelling, where the Hmong elderly as well as other adults, such as our parents, come in and share their stories and how they got

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