Mee Moua
Mee provides training, facilitation and coaching support for individuals and organizations in planning, leadership, and equity transformation. She is passionate about democracy building, heart leadership and making visible the interconnectedness among peoples. Some of her clients are local and State elected officials, community and national foundations, colleges and universities, and non-profit organizations undertaking equity-centered transformation.
She was the President and Executive Director of Asian Americans Advancing Justice-AAJC and the Vice President for public policy and advocacy for the Asian and Pacific Islander American Health Forum, both of which are leading Asian American civil rights organizations based in Washington, DC. Prior to her work in Washington, DC, she was an attorney and a member of the Minnesota State Senate. She was the first Hmong American to be elected to a state legislature in the United States, served three terms before retiring in 2010, and served as the Chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee in her final term.
Mee was born in Laos and came to the United in 1978 as a refugee. She grew up in the midwest, attended Brown University, received her MPA from the LBJ School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas at Austin and earned her JD from the University of Minnesota Law School.
She is a recognized public speaker, leadership mentor and relationship weaver. She currently works and lives in Maryland with her husband and their three children.