Margaret
Wong
Founder and
Managing Partner,
Margaret W. Wong
and Associates
By Sue Starrett
Photograph by
Angelo Merendino
As a foreign
student on full
scholarship,
Margaret Wong
arrived in America
in 1969, along with
her sister Cecilia,
four suitcases, and
$200. They came
from British Hong
Kong to attend an
all-girls’ Catholic
junior college in
Iowa. During college,
they worked in the
cafeteria, rising
early to make sure
breakfast was ready.