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Pao Houa Her's Photography featured in New York Time's Opinion Piece

April 14, 2026
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A photograph of a handwritten sign on a fence that reads: “The resistance is rooted in love. ICE out!”
Pao Houa Her ’09

A photograph by Pao Houa Her ’09 were featured in a New York Times Opinion piece by Thomas L. Friedman, highlighting Minnesota’s ongoing resilience through the ICE Surge Operation. As Friedman describes the resistance as “a spontaneous uprising of civic activism propelled by a single idea — I am my neighbor’s keeper, whoever he or she is and however he or she got here.”

The article reflects the sentiment captured in the photograph, which features a handwritten sign on a fence that reads: “THE RESISTANCE IS ROOTED IN LOVE. ICE OUT!” Pao Houa Her’s background as a Hmong woman directly informs her photography, choosing to uplift Hmong voices and histories often pushed to the wayside.

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