2019 AREAA National President Tom Truong

Tom’s story starts like so many immigration stories we’ve heard before. In 1975 when Saigon fell, his mother got on a boat with 6 of her 8 children to seek a new life - one that didn’t involve being afraid for your life, one that meant you weren’t fearful of that fated knock on the door telling you you had to go with the authorities and be “RE-educated”, one of freedom and independence. He was 7.