Today, Eve serves as an advisor to VOICE, the student-led activist group she founded at her high school in 1999. She works with the group to help the community and develop students’ leadership skills. She also organized Operation Christmas Child, in which her school sent gifts to developing countries.
A past winner of the 2003 Yoshiyama Award for her service to the community, Eve continues to help others. After graduating from college in 2007, she was awarded a prestigious Fulbright U.S. Student Scholarship to teach English as a foreign language in Thailand.
Eve is the first student from her college to participate in the Fulbright program in Thailand. The program is the largest U.S. international exchange program.
Eve will teach English to middle school students outside Bangkok, Thailand. Eve’s decision to go to Thailand relates to her own cultural heritage. She says, “Personally, I am taking the journey to Thailand because I want to immerse myself back into my Hmong culture—its traditions, language and the people. Culture is a large part of my identity and without it, I could not be me.”
Interpret the Map Locate Thailand on the map. Which countries border Thailand?