Community invited to Rosenmeier Forum “Immigration to Minnesota from Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia” 

The community is invited to attend the next Rosenmeier Forum titled “Immigration to Minnesota from Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia” with featured speaker and author Steve Young, Global Executive Director of The Caux Round Table. The free event is at 7 p.m. on Monday, Oct. 6 in the Chalberg Theatre, at Central Lakes College’s Brainerd campus.   

Steve Wenzel, Executive Director of the Rosenmeier Center for State and Local Government, said, “We are fortunate to have a distinguished scholar like Steve Young speak on such an important topic. He has the ability to bring to his audience the application and information of law to the complexities of immigration and U.S. foreign policy. Steve has truly been a credit to our U.S. government and to the State of Minnesota by how well managed the refugee crisis and, thanks to the leadership provided by Mr. Young, there were few issues or problems for these refugees to Minnesota from Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos to Minnesota in the 1970s and 1980s.”  

Young was educated at Harvard College and Harvard Law School. He served as an Assistant Dean at the Harvard Law School and as the third Dean of the Hamline University School of Law in St. Paul. He has taught at the University of Minnesota and at the SASIN Graduate School of Management in Bangkok and has spoken at many workshops and conferences on corporate social responsibility and business ethics. Young also grew up in the U.S. Diplomatic Corp in Southeast Asia where his father was U.S. Ambassador to Thailand in the Kennedy Administration and Young worked closely with Ellsworth Bunker, U.S. Ambassador to Vietnam in the 1960s. He is author of the book, “Kissinger’s Betrayal” and is considered a national expert on the Vietnam War.  

Young has also taught at the University of Minnesota Law School, Carlson School of Management, the College of Liberal Arts and Minnesota State University – Mankato. He has written numerous opinion articles for the Star Tribune, St. Paul Pioneer Press, Minnesota Journal on Law and Politics, St. Paul Legal Ledger and has been published in the Wall Street Journal, New York Times and the Washington Post.