Councilwoman Hai Huynh Oral History

In an interview scheduled to go from 9 AM to 11 AM, councilwoman Hai Huynh and I spoke for over five hours. Between laughter, tears, and reflection, Hai told me how her grandma taught her the meaning of community, how she struggled and succeeded navigating schools in America as a recent immigrant from Vietnam at 16, and how she came to become a city councilmember in the midst of COVID-19 and the racial reckoning in the summer of 2020.