Theresa La is the proud daughter of war refugees and graduate of Catholic schooling from elementary parochial school to Loyola Marymount University and Georgetown University. She is currently a master’s student in physiology at Case Western Reserve University. When not advocating for social justice issues, she can be found drinking coffee and trying to teach her dog how to pray.
We're undergoing a website migration. Please pardon any intermittent outages.
Show full bio ↓
Commentary
The US accepted my family as refugees from Vietnam. Now we must welcome Afghans.
Commentary: It was not until I sat with my mom and watched the videos of the panic and desperation unfolding in Kabul that I began to grasp what my mom, dad and grandparents had experienced in Vietnam in the 1970s.
