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Maya Gilliss-Chapman - founder and CEO of Cambodians in Tech, Miss Cambodian American, 2nd Runner; Elizabeth Heng - politician, candidate for California's 16th congressional district in 2018 [2] Vanna Howard - politician, first Cambodian American woman elected to the Massachusetts state legislature (17th Middlesex District) Soben Huon - Miss ...
Cambodian emigrants to the United States (36 P) Pages in category "American people of Cambodian descent" The following 40 pages are in this category, out of 40 total.
In 2000, Cambodian American families reported a median household income of $36,152. [19] A 2008 NYU study reported that 29.3% of the Cambodian American community lived under the poverty line. [20] That was higher than the American average of people living below the poverty line, which, in 2011, was recorded as 16% of all Americans. [21]
Long Beach is home to almost half a million Cambodian Americans — the largest population of Khmer people in the United States. Yet while attending classes at the Long Beach Unified School ...
This is a list of notable Cambodian people, persons from Cambodia or of Khmer descent. Am Rong; Ampor Tevi; Arn Chorn-Pond; Beat Richner; Bérénice Marlohe; Bour Kry; Chan Nak; Chan Sy; Chanthou Oeur; Chath Piersath; Chea Sim; Chea Soth; Chea Vichea; Cheam Channy; Cheng Heng; Chhet Sovanpanha; Chhim Sothy; Chhouk Rin; Chou Bun Eng; Chuon Nath ...
Long Beach-born Cambodian American painter Tidawhitney Lek has canvases on view in the Hammer's biennial and a solo show at the Long Beach Museum of Art.
Sankranta means "beginning of a new year" in Khmer, Cambodia's official language. But some Cambodian American elders in Long Beach strongly object to the new festival's name.
Chath Piersath, born in Kop Nymit, Svay Sisophon District, in Battambang Province, is a noted Cambodian American poet, painter and humanitarian.He creates both large and small portraits of people from his memory, often representing the social and economic disparity among Cambodians.