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Loung Ung អ៊ឹង លួង
Cambodian American memoirist and activist whose trilogy traces survival under the Khmer Rouge and life afterward in the United States.
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Author, Educator
Martha E. Kendall
American author and community college educator who co-wrote Nawuth Keat's Khmer Rouge survival memoir.
Filmmaker
Masahiro Sugano
Masahiro Sugano is a filmmaker who works through the media lab Studio Revolt and directed the documentary Cambodian Son.
Oral historian, Photographer
Michael Edward Bell
Folklorist and fieldworker who documented Cambodian community life in Lowell, Massachusetts for the Lowell Folklife Project.
Chef
Mona Sang
Cambodian American chef and restaurant owner in Chicago cooking Khmer dishes learned from her mother.
Author, Educator
Monica Sok
Cambodian American poet whose work addresses the Khmer Rouge period and its inheritance.
Author, Oral historian
Nawuth Keat
Cambodian survivor of the Khmer Rouge period who told his life story in the memoir Alive in the Killing Fields.
Filmmaker
Nicole Newnham
Nicole Newnham is an American documentary director and producer who co-directed Sentenced Home.
Author, Chef
Nite Yun ណែត យុន
Cambodian American chef and restaurateur in San Francisco and author of the cookbook My Cambodia.
Author, Journalist
Patricia McCormick
American journalist and young adult novelist whose novel Never Fall Down is based on the life of Arn Chorn-Pond.
Author, Educator
Peuo Tuy
Khmer American spoken word poet and community organizer who helped found the Cambodian American Literary Arts Association.
Filmmaker, Musician
praCh Ly
praCh Ly is a Khmer American rapper and producer who co-founded the Cambodia Town Film Festival.
Filmmaker
Robert H. Lieberman
Robert H. Lieberman is a documentary director and novelist who made the Cambodia portrait film Angkor Awakens.
Author, Educator
Sokunthary Svay
Khmer American poet, librettist and scholar who co-founded the Cambodian American Literary Arts Association.
Author, Educator
Sue J. Kim
Professor of English who directs the Southeast Asian Digital Archive and its oral history collecting in Lowell, Massachusetts.
Author, Journalist
Tien Nguyen
Los Angeles food writer and cookbook co-author who worked with Nite Yun on My Cambodia.
Author, Educator
Tracy Guan
Children's book author and founder of Tangerine and Jade Press, publisher of Khmer-themed picture books.
Author
U Sam Oeur
Cambodian poet and memoirist who survived the Khmer Rouge period and translated Walt Whitman into Khmer.
Author
Vaddey Ratner
Cambodian American novelist whose fiction draws on her survival of the Khmer Rouge period.
Author, Chef
Visoth Tarak Ouk
Long Beach chef who founded Cambodian Restaurant Week and co-wrote a Cambodian cookbook and memoir.
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