Kai Risdahl
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
Tam and Lynn Nguyen are outside Advanced Beauty College.
It offers courses in cosmetology and manicuring, hairstyling, lots more.
It is obviously a family business.
You didn't start it, though.
We came from Vietnam after the war in 1975.
You were like, you were a little kid, right?
And you were sort of, your mom was pregnant, right?
Stories like this are what this community is built on.
The stories of people who came here after the fall of Saigon in 1975.
The United States and Vietnam, of course, have a complicated history.
But diplomatic relations normalized in 1995.
And after 2018, when President Trump's China tariffs and companies looking elsewhere for manufacturing, the two economies have become even more closely connected.
They're also connected, though, by people like many of those coming through this beauty school.