Scot More tells his story of experiencing homelessness and how it shaped his advocacy to help folks without housing at the Coalition for the Homeless.
Fiza Kuzhiyil
Fiza is an audience engagement producer at the Landing, where she works closely with the education team. She previously interned at the Washington Post on the multiplatform and audience desk, and has worked as a freelancer covering HISD for Axios. Prior to that, she was an audience fellow at the Texas Tribune, and an intern at Texas Monthly. From the Houston area, she has a degree in journalism and government from University of Texas at Austin. She is fluent in Malayalam.
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How Vietnamese families built community, revolutionized nail industry over 50 years
The fall of Saigon indirectly sparked a transformation of nail salons as Vietnamese families came to dominate the industry in Houston and the nation.
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Bánh tét, trò chơi và hoa quả: cộng đồng người Việt ở Houston đón mừng năm Ất Tỵ
“Tôm, Cua, Cá, Nai, Bầu, Gà”, khoảng chục người mặc áo dài truyền thống ngồi quây quần chung quanh hàng bầu cua cá cọp, ồn ào. Dưới một màn hình tv với tiếng hát của chương trình Thúy Nga, một cháu bé đặt 1 đôla vào con tôm, hy vọng sau khi lắc lên thì […]
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Bánh tét, games and fruits: The Houston Viet community welcomes the Year of the Snake
Known as Chinese New Year to some, Lunar New Year or Tết, marks the start of the Year of the Snake for many Asian communities, including the Vietnamese, who have built a steadfast community in Houston over the past 50 years.