Pahoua Yang

Pahoua Yang is the Vice President of Community Mental Health & Wellness at the Amherst H. Wilder Foundation. As a clinician, she has immense experience with diverse client populations in multiple settings.

Pahoua has served on a number of national and statewide committees and task forces aimed at advancing health equity. She is a past recipient of the University of Minnesota’s Polaris Award for Health and Human Services, was the 2014 National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) of Minnesota Professional of the Year, and serves on the board of the Minnesota Association of Community Mental Health Programs. Pahoua holds a Master of Science degree in Social Work from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a doctorate in Educational Psychology (counseling) from the University of Minnesota. In her spare time she enjoys being with her family and her Kindle.