Oral historian, Scholar
Theresa de Langis
Scholar of women, peace and security who leads the Cambodian Women's Oral History Project.
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Filmmaker, Journalist
Thet Sambath
Thet Sambath is a Cambodian investigative journalist and co-director of the documentary Enemies of the People.
Author
Thon Thavry
Cambodian author and publisher whose memoir A Proper Woman examines social expectations placed on Cambodian women.
Composer, Musician
VannDa វណ្ណដា
VannDa is a Cambodian rapper, singer and producer whose work blends hip hop with traditional Khmer music.
Educator, Master practitioner
Voan Savay វ័ន សាវ៉ៃ
Khmer classical dancer and teacher who carried the royal dance repertoire through the refugee camps and into diaspora schools.
Author, Educator
Kim Echlin
Canadian novelist whose novel The Disappeared is set in Cambodia after the Khmer Rouge period.
Filmmaker
Davy Chou ដេវី ជូ
Davy Chou is a Cambodian-French director and producer whose films include the documentary Golden Slumbers and the feature Diamond Island.
Filmmaker
Denis Do
Denis Do is a French animation director whose first feature, Funan, is set during the Khmer Rouge period.
Filmmaker
Lucas Sénécaut
Lucas Sénécaut is a French director and producer who co-founded L'Oeil Vif Productions and co-directed Khmerica.
Author, Chef
Sorey Long
Cambodian cook and cookbook author who recorded her family's Khmer recipes for publication in French and English.
Filmmaker
Thibaut Amri
Thibaut Amri is a French producer and director who co-directed the documentary Khmerica.
Author, Visual artist
Tian Veasna
Cambodian-born graphic novelist in France whose Year of the Rabbit documents his family's experience of the Khmer Rouge period.
Filmmaker
Xavier de Lauzanne
Xavier de Lauzanne is a French documentary director whose film The Perfect Motion follows the Cambodian royal ballet.
Filmmaker
Roland Joffé
Roland Joffé is a British film and television director who directed The Killing Fields.
Author, Educator
David Smyth
British scholar of Thai and Cambodian who wrote the Routledge Colloquial Cambodian course.
Author, Chef
Kanika Linden
Cambodian cookbook author and photographer based in London who documented Khmer recipes and ingredients for publication.
Author, Educator
Anthony Veasna So
Cambodian American fiction writer and essayist whose work portrays Khmer American life in California's Central Valley.
Author, Educator
Bunkong Tuon
Cambodian American poet and novelist who teaches English at Union College.
Author, Educator
Cathy J. Schlund-Vials
Asian American studies scholar who analysed Cambodian American memory work in film, literature, rap and performance.
Filmmaker
Caylee So
Caylee So is a Khmer American director and co-founder of the Cambodia Town Film Festival in Long Beach, California.
Author
Chanda Ouk Wolf
Cambodian American children's book author whose picture book connects Cambodian American families to the donut-shop trade.
Author, Oral historian
Chanrithy Him
Cambodian American memoirist and speaker who survived the Khmer Rouge period as a child.
Author, Visual artist
Chath pierSath
Cambodian American poet and painter who divides his time between a Massachusetts farm and Cambodia.
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