Socheata Poeuv is the CEO of Khmer Legacies, an organization whose mission is to create a video archive about the Cambodian genocide. Khmer Legacies has a goal of videotaping thousands of testimonies of Cambodian survivors by having the children interview their parents. She was selected as a 2007 Echoing Green fellow and is a Visiting Fellow at the Yale University Genocide Studies Program. Socheata Poeuv made her filmmaking debut with the award-winning film, NEW YEAR BABY which will be broadcast nationally on Independent Lens on PBS in 2008. She co-founded Broken English Productions in New York City. She was on staff at NBC News Dateline and was previously at ABC News World News Tonight Weekend and NBC News TODAY. Socheata graduated cum laude with a B.A. in English literature from Smith College in 2002 and studied one year at Hertford College, Oxford.

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