The cool part about being from someplace else originally is the awe and surprise of learning about the area. AND, thusly, the famous people who happen to be from said place. New York is a big state. There must be plenty of note-worthy people (read: people the paparazzi would follow around to make a living in LA) from CNY and more specifically, The Syracuse/Utica area. So. Yes. I did what most idea adventurers do when looking for information about something I Googled. Here's what I found.
Karen refugees in Syracuse fight for justice, recognition
Emily Steinberger | Photo Editor
The Karen are a minority ethnic group in Myanmar, also known as Burma, that have been fighting for independence for the last 72 years.
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At 6 years old, Shawnai Ku fled one of the world’s longest-running civil wars.
She and her father, a Karen soldier in Myanmar, escaped on foot across the country’s border with Thailand. She still remembers crossing a river in a small boat, fearing for her life, knowing that both sides of the conflict would want to kill them one side for her father’s desertion and the other for their ethnicity.