and community development. She has also served as a regular contributor to MPR's weekly podcast The Interpreters. Theater, art, and film Vongsay's plays have been presented by Mu Performing Arts, The Unit Collective, Minnesota Fringe Festival, The Playwrights' Center, and the Consortium of Asian American Theater Artists. Vongsay wrote and performed Hmong-Lao Friendship Play / Lao-Hmong Friendship Play with May-Lee Yang in 2015. Vongsay's critically acclaimed play Kung Fu Zombies vs Cannibals was described as "a groundbreaking hip-hop martial arts epic" by Asian American Press and was named “Best Production of 2013” by L’etoile Magazine. Yellowtail Sashimi was part of the 2010 MN Fringe Festival. Vongsay is a 2011 Jerome Foundation/Mu Performing Arts' New Eyes Theater Fellow, has received a grant fellowship from the Minnesota State Arts Board's Folk and Traditional Arts to study traditional Lao storytelling, and is a co-founding member of the Unit Collective of Emerging Playwrights of Color. In 2012, she joined the board of directors for Intermedia Arts and the Asian Pacific Endowment Fund of the St. Paul Foundation. Vongsay was an Advisory Board member of the 2010 MPLS Asian Film Festival, which was presented by The Film Society/Minnesota Film Arts. She was a featured artist for the Sulu Series in Washington DC, Philadelphia, and New York, a three-city monthly showcase of emerging and established Asian American artists, founded by Taiyo Na. Community engagement Vongsay has worked as a programs coordinator and consultant on community-based projects, research analysis, grant writing, program planning and evaluation, and community assessment. She has previously worked with the Anchorage Urban League of Young Professionals, lecturing and performing at local high schools and at the university level to urge voter registration and civic engagement, and she also served as liaison between local government and the Southeast Asian community regarding public policy in Alaska. Vongsay is Chair of the Twin Cities World Refugee Day festival planning committee, is a COMPAS and East Side Arts Council teaching artist, and serves on the board of directors for Intermedia Arts, Saint Paul Almanac, and Ananya Dance Theatre. Vongsay has been recognized as a 2011 Change Maker by Intermedia Arts and the office of Governor Dayton for her work in the community and her contributions and leadership in the state's Lao arts movement. In 2011 she joined the Council on Asian Pacific Minnesotans as the Cultural Coordinator, where she oversaw funding from the 2008 Legacy Act to