Special Issue Editors' Introduction: Voices from the Field: Centering Southeast Asian Americans through Policy, Practice, and Activism

Keo’s examines the intersection of race, ethnicity, and gender as a first-generation Hmong-American woman in a senior-level K-12 educational leadership policy role. shares her story of resistance and resilience as she navigates different educational and workforce systems as the child of a Hmong child solider and middle school graduates. Jia Liang’s draws on accounts of two Vietnamese American women school administrators in a Southern state and a Midwestern state to understand the ways in which they have navigated intersectional to advocate for equity and inclusion for their socio-culturally and linguistically diverse and families. for for in