My name is Nao Doua Calvyn Vue or known as Doua Vue as my birth name when I was single to my peers, family and locally in the state of Michigan. I added Calvyn as my middle initial name when I became a citizenship in 1995. Nao was given to me by my father in law when I celebrated my senior name. Those years have passed and today many people known me as Nao Doua Vue.

My parents were forced to give up everything and risk their lives to make the dangerous trip to Thailand in 1979, so we as the children could and would have a better lives. Somehow they knew this was the only way for all of us to succeed. I arrived in Lansing, Michigan along with my parents and two sibling brothers in the late summer of 1981. We were sponsored to Lansing Michigan due to my eldest sister and immediate family. As we lived in America, I was fortunate to have another sister and brother along the way. Today, I am blessed to have 2 sisters and 3 brothers whom all resides within an hour away.

Even though I wasn’t born here in United States, I was given the opportunity to start school in kindergarten and was raised up as a typical western boy. School was tough, especially learning English as a second language. I would spend extra time studying for test and exams. I graduate high school in 1993 and didn’t hesitate to start college (Lansing Community College) the next fall. Not knowing what to study and due to financially, I managed to graduate with an Associates in Arts in general education in 1996. That same year I decided to continue my education by attending Grand Valley State University, which is an hour away in Allendale Michigan. My strengths were mathematics and science and I was enrolled in an engineering co-op program at the college. In 1998 I graduated the program with a degree in Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering (BSME). I started working the following year and ever since then I was employed with Dart/Solo Corporation of Michigan. I started out as an associate engineering, project engineering, and moving onto project analyst.

My personal and previous relationship as a volunteer and servicing the community is a professional ethics. With years of experience serving both at the local and state levels, I admired the sympathy for the community and our Hmong family. Especially in the Hmong community, if I could provide, direct or assist them in any ways, it is well worth it! Helping one another or a group is what challenges me simultaneously as my ambition is substantial. For 17 years, I’ve learned and achieved valuable experience in assisting and supporting the district communities. I believe coming together and uniting as one is the ultimate objective. Once united, ideas, thoughts and strategy could be sought and share as a network to promote and better our lives. I have been involved in numerous meetings, social gatherings, deadline projects, research and proposals. I have experienced in organization leadership, discussion, fundraising, event chairman as well as public speaker.