and international relations expert; Laotian and Hmong refugee advocate Michael Vang, soccer player Yia Vang, Hmong-American chef Ka Vang, writer Zha Blong Xiong, first Asian American and Hmong American to serve on the Fresno City Council (2006) Xao "Jerry" Yang, 2007 World Series of Poker Main Event Champion Kao Kalia Yang, writer and author of The Latehomecomer: A Hmong Family Memoir Kristy Yang, Milwaukee County Circuit Judge, Attorney, elected in 2017. See also Asian Americans Laotian Americans List of Hmong/Miao People Cherzong Vang Sheng Thao Vang Pao Vang Pobzeb Hmong Veterans' Naturalization Act of 2000 Lao Veterans of America Hmong people Hmong language Hmong customs and culture Hmong folk religion Hmong churches Kingdom of Laos North Vietnamese invasion of Laos Vietnam War Laos Memorial Lao Human Rights Council United League for Democracy in Laos The Center for Public Policy Analysis Immigrant health care in the United States References Further reading Bankston, Carl L. "Hmong Americans." in Gale Encyclopedia of Multicultural America, edited by Thomas Riggs, (3rd ed., vol. 2, Gale, 2014), pp. 331–344. [Bankston, Carl L. "Hmong Americans." Gale Encyclopedia of Multicultural America, edited by Thomas Riggs, 3rd ed., vol. 2, Gale, 2014, pp. 331–344. Gale eBooks, Hmong Americans - Document - Gale Power Search online] Chan, Sucheng, ed. Hmong Means Free: Life in Laos and America (Temple University Press, 1994). online Hein, Jeremy. Ethnic Origins: The Adaptation of Cambodian and Hmong Refugees in Four American Cities (Russell Sage Foundation, 2006). Her, Vincent K., and Mary Louise Buley-Messner, eds. Hmong and American: From Refugees to Citizens (Minnesota Historical Society, 2012). Lo, Aline, and Kong Pheng Pha. "Hmong American Literature and Culture." in Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Literature (2018). Vang, Chia Youvee. Hmong America: Reconstructing Community in Diaspora (U of Illinois Press, 2010). Yang, Kou. The Making of Hmong America: Forty Years after the Secret War (Lexington Books, 2017). Yang Dao – Growing up Hmong at the Crossroads Gonzalo, Pa Xiong. Growing Up Hmong in Laos and America: Two Generations of Women Amerasia should Journal (2010) 36#1 pp 56–103 Lee, Marjorie. "Through Hmong America: A Bibliographic Journey." Amerasia Journal 36.1 (2010): 105–114. The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures by Anne Fadiman The Latehomecomer: A Hmong Family Memoir by Kao Kalia Yang Tangled Threads: A Hmong Girl's Story by Pegi Deitz Shea Hmong and American: Stories of Transition