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Nite Yun ណែត យុន
Cambodian American chef and restaurateur in San Francisco and author of the cookbook My Cambodia.
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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.
Filmmaker
Alice Gu
Alice Gu is a director and cinematographer who made The Donut King, about Cambodian refugee doughnut entrepreneurs in California.
Musician
Amara Goel
Cambodian American classically trained soprano and founder and host of The Threaded Path, a podcast about Cambodian artists and memory.
Filmmaker
Angelina Jolie
Angelina Jolie is a filmmaker and actor who directed the Khmer-language feature First They Killed My Father.
Filmmaker
David Siev
Filmmaker whose documentary Bad Axe and short film Year Zero screened at the Cambodia Town Film Festival.
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.
Author
Pin Yathay
Cambodian engineer and author of the Khmer Rouge survival memoir Stay Alive, My Son.
Filmmaker, Journalist
Rob Lemkin
Rob Lemkin is a British documentary director and producer who co-directed Enemies of the People with Thet Sambath.
Author, Journalist
Roger Warner
American author and journalist who co-wrote Haing S. Ngor's autobiography.
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