{"id":1342,"date":"2026-08-24T09:59:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-24T16:59:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/socialscience-redesign-dev\/?post_type=profile&#038;p=1342"},"modified":"2026-10-04T23:18:44","modified_gmt":"2026-10-05T06:18:44","slug":"1342","status":"publish","type":"profile","link":"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/socialscience-redesign-dev\/profile\/1342\/","content":{"rendered":"<section  class=\"bio-section-wrapper section section-white\">\n\t<div class=\"container-xl\">\n\t\t<div class=\"row\">\n\t\t\t\n<div class=\"bio-section-content col-md-8\">\n\t\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">About Me<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Hi everyone! I\u2019m Dr. L\u00ea, pronounced \u201clay\u201d like the potato chip. I was born and raised in the great state of Minnesota. As a result, I love skiing, snow, and the cold. Despite those loves, I traveled to College Station, TX for five years of graduate school in the sweltering heat. I came away from that experience with a master\u2019s degree, a doctorate, great friends, experiences, colleagues, and, of course, a love for Texas barbecue. I chose to move to Seattle for many reasons but one being that this was the first place I had set foot in where there were lots of other people who looked like me\u2014someone who is mixed-race Asian. It also helped that the Seattle vibe is really similar to the one in Minneapolis!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sociology was my very first class in college. I chose to take it because there was a service learning project tied to it where we worked with immigrants and refugee high school students in the area. As the daughter of a former refugee, this held special significance for me. Ever since that first class, I got the \u201cbug\u201d for sociology and never lost it. I love to teach, especially in person, and I (obviously) love sociology.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Here are some fun facts about me: I have three amazing human beings that call me mom. My favorite food is homemade spring rolls. Aside from Vietnamese, my favorite cuisine is probably Ethiopian or Korean. I love to cook foods from all over the world, bake difficult and elaborate things, and get sucked into a good book, movie, or show. I double majored in college, in sociology and advertising. My favorite holiday is T\u1ebft. And last but not least, I am trying my hand at making furniture!<\/p>\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n\t<hr class=\"section-divider\">\n<\/section>","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"department":[28],"profile_type":[10],"class_list":["post-1342","profile","type-profile","status-publish","hentry","department-sociology","profile_type-faculty"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/socialscience-redesign-dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/1342","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/socialscience-redesign-dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/socialscience-redesign-dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/profile"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/socialscience-redesign-dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/1342\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1818,"href":"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/socialscience-redesign-dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/1342\/revisions\/1818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/socialscience-redesign-dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"department","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/socialscience-redesign-dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/department?post=1342"},{"taxonomy":"profile_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/socialscience-redesign-dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile_type?post=1342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}