{"id":748,"date":"2017-05-20T11:48:07","date_gmt":"2017-05-20T16:48:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/hmg\/?page_id=748"},"modified":"2026-10-16T17:17:30","modified_gmt":"2026-10-16T22:17:30","slug":"pachia-thao","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/hmg\/pachia-thao\/","title":{"rendered":"Pachia Thao"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"et_pb_section_0 et_pb_section et_pb_fullwidth_section et_section_regular et_block_section\"><div class=\"et_pb_fullwidth_slider_0 et_pb_slider et_pb_module\"><div class=\"et_pb_slides\"><div class=\"et_pb_slide_0 et_pb_slide et_pb_media_alignment_center et_pb_bg_layout_dark et_pb_text_align_center\" data-slide-id=\"divi\/slide-0\"><div class=\"et_pb_container\"><div class=\"et_pb_slider_container_inner\"><div class=\"et_pb_slide_description\"><h2 class=\"et_pb_slide_title\">Pachia Thao<\/h2><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"et_pb_section_1 et_pb_section et_section_regular et_block_section\"><div class=\"et_pb_row_0 et_pb_row et_block_row\"><div class=\"et_pb_column_0 et_pb_column et_pb_column_4_4 et-last-child et_block_column et_pb_css_mix_blend_mode_passthrough\"><div class=\"et_pb_text_0 et_pb_text et_pb_bg_layout_light et_pb_module et_block_module et_pb_text_align_left\"><div class=\"et_pb_text_inner\"><p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/889\/2016\/12\/cropped-Beyond-Two-Worlds-11-white-11.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-140 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/889\/2016\/12\/cropped-Beyond-Two-Worlds-11-white-11.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"90\" height=\"90\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/hmg\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/889\/2016\/12\/cropped-Beyond-Two-Worlds-11-white-11.png 512w, https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/hmg\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/889\/2016\/12\/cropped-Beyond-Two-Worlds-11-white-11-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/hmg\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/889\/2016\/12\/cropped-Beyond-Two-Worlds-11-white-11-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/hmg\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/889\/2016\/12\/cropped-Beyond-Two-Worlds-11-white-11-270x270.png 270w, https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/hmg\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/889\/2016\/12\/cropped-Beyond-Two-Worlds-11-white-11-192x192.png 192w, https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/hmg\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/889\/2016\/12\/cropped-Beyond-Two-Worlds-11-white-11-180x180.png 180w, https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/hmg\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/889\/2016\/12\/cropped-Beyond-Two-Worlds-11-white-11-32x32.png 32w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 90px) 100vw, 90px\" \/><\/a>Pachia Thao<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><strong><span style=\"color: #800080\">P<\/span><\/strong>achia Thao is a Hmong American student attending St. Olaf College with a double major in Political Science and Asian Studies. Born in San Diego, California, her parents moved to Minnesota after arriving in California from Thailand. She is the oldest of her four siblings, and the first in her family to attend college. Pachia is an active member of the St. Olaf community \u00a0and has been involved with numerous organizations such as Hmong Culture Outreach (HCO), Student Support Services (SSS), and Upward Bound. She enjoys reading, cooking, and spending time with family and friends. <\/span><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><div class=\"et_pb_divider_0 et_pb_divider et_pb_space et_pb_divider_position_top et_pb_module\"><div class=\"et_pb_divider_internal\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"et_pb_row_1 et_pb_row et_block_row\"><div class=\"et_pb_column_1 et_pb_column et_pb_column_1_2 et_block_column et_pb_css_mix_blend_mode_passthrough\"><div class=\"et_pb_video_0 et_pb_video et_pb_module et_block_module\"><div class=\"et_pb_video_box\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Pachia Growing Up&amp; Grandma\" width=\"1080\" height=\"608\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/gqP36_kqBhc?feature=oembed\"  allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"et_pb_column_2 et_pb_column et_pb_column_1_2 et-last-child et_block_column et_pb_css_mix_blend_mode_passthrough\"><div class=\"et_pb_text_1 et_pb_text et_pb_bg_layout_light et_pb_module et_block_module et_pb_text_align_left\"><div class=\"et_pb_text_inner\"><p style=\"text-align: center\">\u201c\u2026 Because my parents did marry young, they did have me very young and I felt they weren\u2019t ready to have a kid at that time. But in the Hmong community there is this really dominant thing where people get married early on. So we did struggle a lot, I remember growing up as a kid\u2026making ends meets. Trying to pay the house bill, buy food, and stuff like that, because both my parents were working and there was no one there to watch me. So I grew up a lot with my grandma watching me, and raising me up, so I defiantly (think) my grandma is an important person to me\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"et_pb_row_2 et_pb_row et_block_row\"><div class=\"et_pb_column_3 et_pb_column et_pb_column_4_4 et-last-child et_block_column et_pb_css_mix_blend_mode_passthrough\"><div class=\"et_pb_divider_1 et_pb_divider et_pb_space et_pb_divider_position_top et_pb_module\"><div class=\"et_pb_divider_internal\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"et_pb_row_3 et_pb_row et_block_row\"><div class=\"et_pb_column_4 et_pb_column et_pb_column_1_2 et_block_column et_pb_css_mix_blend_mode_passthrough\"><div class=\"et_pb_text_2 et_pb_text et_pb_bg_layout_light et_pb_module et_block_module et_pb_text_align_left\"><div class=\"et_pb_text_inner\"><p style=\"text-align: center\">\u201cSome obstacles of obtaining a college degree or higher education as a Hmong woman would definitely have to be trying to communicate back at home, what I\u2019m doing. It\u2019s kind of hard to tell my parents about a political science major, especially the grandparents. They don\u2019t speak English, so I can\u2019t really find the right words. I can\u2019t find the political science word in Hmong, so it\u2019s really hard to explain what I\u2019m doing. They just have to believe me and trust me that I\u2019m doing what I want to do and that it\u2019s something that will definitely benefit me in the future.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"et_pb_column_5 et_pb_column et_pb_column_1_2 et-last-child et_block_column et_pb_css_mix_blend_mode_passthrough\"><div class=\"et_pb_video_1 et_pb_video et_pb_module et_block_module\"><div class=\"et_pb_video_box\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Pachia Obstacles\" width=\"1080\" height=\"608\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/iA-YR1Rpkkk?feature=oembed\"  allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"et_pb_row_4 et_pb_row et_block_row\"><div class=\"et_pb_column_6 et_pb_column et_pb_column_4_4 et-last-child et_block_column et_pb_css_mix_blend_mode_passthrough\"><div class=\"et_pb_divider_2 et_pb_divider et_pb_space et_pb_divider_position_top et_pb_module\"><div class=\"et_pb_divider_internal\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"et_pb_row_5 et_pb_row et_block_row\"><div class=\"et_pb_column_7 et_pb_column et_pb_column_1_2 et_block_column et_pb_css_mix_blend_mode_passthrough\"><div class=\"et_pb_video_2 et_pb_video et_pb_module et_block_module\"><div class=\"et_pb_video_box\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Pachia Roles At Home\" width=\"1080\" height=\"608\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/2jN4OxGNGNo?feature=oembed\"  allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"et_pb_column_8 et_pb_column et_pb_column_1_2 et-last-child et_block_column et_pb_css_mix_blend_mode_passthrough\"><div class=\"et_pb_text_3 et_pb_text et_pb_bg_layout_light et_pb_module et_block_module et_pb_text_align_left\"><div class=\"et_pb_text_inner\"><p style=\"text-align: center\">\u201cBeing a Hmong woman at school is definitely really different from being a woman at home and I think just recently my parents have been a little more open to things outside of the Hmong community. We talked about LGBT movement and stuff like that, because I myself input that to them so now that I go back home I kind of bring a little bit of college life with me, like what I have learned here and what we talk about here. I make them become more open-minded and my role at home is now slowly changing.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"et_pb_row_6 et_pb_row et_block_row\"><div class=\"et_pb_column_9 et_pb_column et_pb_column_4_4 et-last-child et_block_column et_pb_css_mix_blend_mode_passthrough\"><div class=\"et_pb_divider_3 et_pb_divider et_pb_space et_pb_divider_position_top et_pb_module\"><div class=\"et_pb_divider_internal\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1490,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-748","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/hmg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/748","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/hmg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/hmg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/hmg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1490"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/hmg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=748"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/hmg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/748\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":854,"href":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/hmg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/748\/revisions\/854"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/hmg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}