Thanks for visiting. I'm humbled you want to learn more about me and my projects. As you explore my site, you'll see I have many projects on the go and they all relate to my lived experience as a 1.5 generation Khmer (Cambodian) Canadian woman. I love learning about different cultures and by sharing the stories of the Cambodian diaspora, I trust you'll learn a few things, too and perhaps gain inspiration along the way. 

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Khmer people in recent history have gone through a lot with French colonialism, civil wars, and the Khmer Rouge genocide in the late 1970s, where it's estimated around 2 million people perished. Intellectuals, artists, business owners, the people that would've led Cambodia in the future, were targeted. The country didn't start rebuilding until the 1990s and growth has been exponential in the last 15 years or so. Although this part of our history shaped us, it doesn't define us.

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I'm here to reclaim my identity. I'm here to share our stories that shape us, using our voices. I'm here to contribute to our narrative  and show the world with our voices who we are. Despite the fact we started with zero not too long ago, we've come a long way. We are thought-provoking artists, change-making non profit leaders, prosperous business people, curious scientists, innovative techies, and so much more. There's this transcontinental energy happening now that's pulling us to create more and uplift each other.

 

I'm here to connect us all, not only Khmers, with our stories. I hope you'll see there are common threads with all our stories, regardless of your ethnicity, religion, gender, nationality, or race.