#28: Mothers in Politics with Vote Run Lead's Chief Program Officer Pakou Hang

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In this episode, we’re continuing our series on Mothers in Politics! As physicians, getting regular women and parents in office is important to us because so much legislation affects public health: not just in the time of a pandemic, but also via laws surrounding issues like parental leave, health insurance coverage, pre-existing conditions, and access to medical and specialty care. Have you wondered what makes people decide to run for office? And how on earth they do it? Do you think it can’t be you? Listen to our discussion with Pakou Hang, Chief Program Officer of Vote Run Lead, to find out how it can.
Pakou Hang holds an undergraduate degree in Political Science from Yale University and a master's degree in Political Science from the University of Minnesota. She successfully ran the 2002 campaign of Mee Moua -- the very first Hmong American elected to a state legislature in America -- and thereafter served as the Deputy Political Director to Senator Paul Wellstone’s 2002 re-election campaign. Pakou has also served as the Election Protection Director for the Minnesota Democratic Farmer Labor Party and the National Field Director for the Children's Defense Fund. She co-founded and spent eight years as the Executive Director of the Hmong American Farmers Association, a nonprofit committed to building intergenerational and community wealth for Hmong farmers and their families. She is a recipient of the prestigious Hubert H. Humphrey Public Leadership Award, the Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowship for New Americans, the Bush Leadership Fellowship, and most recently, the Marshall Memorial Fellowship, which strives to bolster trans-Atlantic relations. She is a co-founder and Chief Program Officer for Vote Run Lead.
Vote Run Lead is a national non-partisan organization that trains women to run for office and win, reaching over 36,000 women all across America. Vote Run Lead alumni are serving on city councils, county boards, state houses, supreme courts, and in Congress.

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