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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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Filmmaker
Lucas Sénécaut
Lucas Sénécaut is a French director and producer who co-founded L'Oeil Vif Productions and co-directed Khmerica.
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.
Model
Mealyann Nita Saing
Model from Long Beach who represented Cambodia at Miss Asia Pacific International 2025 and trained in Cambodian classical dance at the Khmer Arts Academy.
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.
Actor
Mélia Constantin មាលា
Khmer-French actress and model who plays the title role in the 2024 Cambodian film Neath's Love Story and its sequels.
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.
Educator, Master practitioner
Norodom Buppha Devi នរោត្តម បុប្ផាទេវី
Cambodian classical dancer, choreographer and cultural administrator who led the postwar revival of the Royal Ballet of 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.
Educator, Musician
Patrick Kersalé
French ethnomusicologist whose Sounds of Angkor project reconstructs Khmer instruments documented in temple reliefs.
Author, Educator
Peuo Tuy
Khmer American spoken word poet and community organizer who helped found the Cambodian American Literary Arts Association.
Author
Pin Yathay
Cambodian engineer and author of the Khmer Rouge survival memoir Stay Alive, My Son.
Filmmaker, Musician
praCh Ly
praCh Ly is a Khmer American rapper and producer who co-founded the Cambodia Town Film Festival.
Author, Filmmaker
Rithy Panh ប៉ាន់ រិទ្ធី
Rithy Panh is a Cambodian director, producer and author whose documentaries and features address the Khmer Rouge period and its aftermath.
Filmmaker, Journalist
Rob Lemkin
Rob Lemkin is a British documentary director and producer who co-directed Enemies of the People with Thet Sambath.
Filmmaker
Robert H. Lieberman
Robert H. Lieberman is a documentary director and novelist who made the Cambodia portrait film Angkor Awakens.
Author, Journalist
Roger Warner
American author and journalist who co-wrote Haing S. Ngor's autobiography.
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