Cherzong Vang (April 13, 1943 – November 10, 2012) was an American community leader from St. Paul, Minnesota.
He was an elder of the Hmong people in Laos and the Lao-American community in the Twin Cities of the United States.
[1] Cherzong worked with students, including many Hmong-American students, in the St. Paul, Minnesota school system, whose parents came to the United States in the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s as political refugees fleeing persecution by the Pathet Lao government in Laos.
Cherzong Vang, along with his brother Colonel Wangyee Vang, was one of the first Hmong advocates for the introduction of the Hmong Veterans' Naturalization Act of 2000 which was eventually passed by the US Congress in 2000 and signed into law by U.S. President Bill Clinton.
The legislation granted honorary U.S. citizenship to tens of thousands of Lao- and Hmong-American veterans of the U.S. "Secret Army" in Laos.