Bunthay Cheam

Over a century or so later, the cycle of environmental injustice and displacement is playing out again for the marginalized communities that live in and around the Duwamish waterways and rely on it for food and recreation

Cambodian (Khmer) Community Fellow I was suddenly free. And just like that, physically and mentally, my hands, my thoughts, all of it asked, “What’s next?” Travel. And that’s what I did. I went deeper into the...

On Saturday May 19, 2018, the Cambodian American Community Council of WA (CACCWA) held its second annual Cambodian Graduation Celebration at the SeaTac Community Center

On April 10, 2018, the city of Tacoma passed a resolution appointing 11 members to the Commission on Immigrants and Refugees Affairs. This follows a December 13, 2017, resolution establishing the need to create...

Governor Jay Inslee recently appointed longtime community activist Sina Sam to a position on the Commission on Asian Pacific American Affairs (CAPAA), making her the first Khmer American woman to serve on its board....

Savannah Son is a second generation Cambodian American whose family resettled in the U.S. following the Cambodian Genocide and the fallout from the Vietnam War. She is the current Khmer Student Association of the University of Washington (KhSA UW) President and an intern at Formerly Incarcerated Groups Healing Together (F.I.G.H.T.), an organization that advocates on behalf of and provides reintegration support for incarcerated community members returning to society

It’s a Saturday morning at Golden House Bakery in White Center, and it’s bustling with conversations over coffee, donuts, papaya salad and Khmer BBQ lemongrass skewers. In one corner, the Cambodian Cultural Alliance of Washington...

On Wednesday, December 6, Rajana Society, in conjunction with the UW Graduate School and the UW Southeast Asia Center, hosted a screening of First They Killed My Father, a movie co-written and directed by...

For the past six months, the 2017-2018 IE fellows have engaged with and immersed themselves in four different immigrant/refugee communities within the Puget Sound area. In this issue, they write from the perspective of...

Tacoma Healing Awareness Community (THAC) held their annual Deportation Town Hall on Saturday, February 24, 2018, at the Asia Pacific Cultural Center in Tacoma, Washington, about five miles away from the Northwest Detention Center,...