Socheata Poeuv
Socheata Poeuv
Overview
Socheata Poeuv is the CEO of Khmer Legacies an organization whose mission is to create and capture video testimonies of survivors from the Cambodian genocide. Winner of the 2008 Jewish World Watch iWitness Award Socheata made her filmmaking debut with the award winning film New Year Baby which was broadcast nationally on PBS s Independent Lens on in 2008. She was on staff at NBC News Dateline ABC News World News Tonight 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. She is now pursuing an MBA at the Yale School of Management as a Soros Fellow.
