After a last-minute invitation in February to meet with the staff of Utah Sen. John Curtis, we sprinted down Salt Lake City sidewalks to get to the Federal Building. We were there to ask for help with the asylum case of Su Htun’s family.

We entered the building and headed toward security. When the hardware in her knee kept tripping the alarm, Htun was serene and matter-of-fact as she quietly explained to the workers that she had had polio as a child. She told me later that’s actually what prompted her to study good governance since her early illness was a direct result of poor health care and bad policy under the closed door policy of Burma’s Ne Win dictatorship in 1980.

Since 2005, Htun has taught international human rights law to Burmese students, taking her course online after the COV

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