Author, Educator
Christine Su
Southeast Asian studies scholar and editor who founded the Khmer Generations Project and edits and writes books on Khmer diaspora life.
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Author, Educator
Christoph Strobel
Historian at the University of Massachusetts Lowell who recorded oral histories of the city's immigrant communities.
Filmmaker
David Grabias
David Grabias is a Los Angeles-based documentary director who co-directed Sentenced Home, about Cambodian American deportees.
Ensemble, Musician
Dengue Fever
Dengue Fever is a Los Angeles band that performs Cambodian rock and pop alongside original songs.
Journalist, Oral historian
Dith Pran ឌិត ប្រន
Cambodian photojournalist and interpreter who collected and edited survivor testimony from the Khmer Rouge period.
Author, Educator
Erik W. Davis
American scholar of Buddhism and professor of religious studies at Macalester College whose research focuses on Cambodia.
Author, Educator
Franklin E. Huffman
American linguist of Southeast Asian languages who wrote the standard Yale series of Cambodian language textbooks and readers.
Author, Educator
George Chigas
Scholar of Cambodian literature and culture who recorded oral histories and photographs of Cambodian American life in Lowell, Massachusetts.
Author
Haing S. Ngor ហាំង សំណាង ង៉ោ
Cambodian physician, actor and memoirist whose autobiography recounts his survival of the Khmer Rouge period.
Content creator, Musician
Hella Chluy
Cambodian American comedian, musician and content creator known for parody songs and comedy about Cambodian American life.
Filmmaker, Journalist
Janet Gardner
Janet Gardner is a documentary director and producer whose films include Dancing Through Death, about Cambodian classical dance.
Filmmaker
John Pirozzi
John Pirozzi is an American filmmaker and cinematographer who directed two documentaries about Cambodian popular music.
Educator, Filmmaker
Julie Mallozzi
Julie Mallozzi is a Boston-based documentary filmmaker and teacher who directed Monkey Dance.
Filmmaker
Kalyanee Mam
Cambodian American filmmaker and CTFF committee member whose documentary A River Changes Course screened at the first Cambodia Town Film Festival.
Author
Kim DePaul
Editor and nonprofit director who co-edited a collection of Cambodian survivor memoirs.
Author
Linda Crew
American novelist whose young adult novel Children of the River follows a Cambodian refugee teenager in Oregon.
Author
Loung Ung អ៊ឹង លួង
Cambodian American memoirist and activist whose trilogy traces survival under the Khmer Rouge and life afterward in the United States.
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.
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