This Philly Hmong "ambassador" has a long name and little surprised her husband

[theking]

..couldn't provide a better living situation for them given that he's Thai...Probabl y has something to do with immigration status?  ...RIP and thank you for shedding some positive light on us Hmong  :

Pang Xiong Sirirathasuk Sikoun, Philadelphia artist and keeper of Hmong culture, dies at 76

Pang Xiong Sirirathasuk Sikoun, 76, a Philadelphia artist and informal ambassador for Hmong culture

She received awards from the National Endowment for the Arts

Born in the mountains of northeast Laos’ Xiangkhouang province, the oldest of 14 children, she learned paj ntaub early on. At age 16, she married Charoon Sirirathasuk, a Thai paratrooper and medic in the Royal Lao Army, and they had six sons. After the Pathet Lao party assumed power, the family fled Laos, and from 1976 to 1979 they lived in the Ban Vinai Refugee Camp in Thailand. From there, in 1979, they immigrated to Philadelphia.

[Dok_Champa]

I knew her...

[Kong Vang]

I knew her...

Dok, did you live in Philly at one point in your life?