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Jun. 27, 2025

The Right Questions

Neutral MyKhanh Shelton knows how to have difficult conversations, attorneys say

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The Right Questions

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The daughter of Vietnamese refugees, mediator MyKhanh P. Shelton was born in Saigon and moved to the U.S. in 1975, when she was 2.

"Being the youngest of then six in the house, I watched a lot. I listened a lot," Shelton said about growing up in Glendale. "And then I tried to mediate a lot in the family dynamic."

Although her family endured traumatic hardships before coming to America, Shelton was too little to remember any of those difficu... (continued)

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