Socheata Poeuv
CEO

Socheata Poeuv was selected as a 2007 Echoing Green fellow and is a Visiting Fellow at the Yale University Genocide Studies Program. She was awarded the 2008 iWitness Award from Jewish World Watch. 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, 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.

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Ryan Cook
Archivist

Ryan Cook is a graduate student in the combined PhD program in Film Studies and East Asian Languages and Literatures at Yale University, where he is currently teaching film classes and preparing to undertake his dissertation research. Before coming to Yale, Ryan worked as a junior high school English teacher in northern Japan. His travels at that time also took him to Cambodia. Along the way he has been involved in a number of film and media projects, most recently before Khmer Legacies as a production intern at the studio of Academy Award-winning documentary filmmaker Alex Gibney. Ryan holds an MA from Georgetown University and a BA from Cornell University.

Carol Te
Director of Research

Carol Te is a junior majoring in political science at Yale University. As a Cambodian whose family survived the Khmer Rouge genocide, Te has been dedicated to helping Cambodians reconcile the past and rebuild society and community. She has worked at an orphanage in Siem Reap called COSO and a center for street children called Green Gecko. This spring she will be studying national development and globalization in the School for International Training’s study abroad program in Viet Nam. This summer, she will be in Cambodia furthering Khmer Legacies’ mission by recording survivor testimonies there.

Patricia Alejandro
Technology Director

Patricia Alejandro is a third-year undergraduate student of Political Science at Yale University, with a focus on international development, conflict resolution, and post-conflict rebuilding. She first learned of the Khmer Rouge genocide by watching NEW YEAR BABY and was inspired to become involved in the work of Khmer Legacies. 

Charles Vogl
Strategic Initiatives

Charles Vogl has worked in outreach on several award-winning social issue oriented documentary films. He has worked with education and human rights organizations to distribute these films internationally and to classrooms across the United States. He produced the feature documentary NEW YEAR BABY which has won nine international awards to date, including the 'Movies That Matter' human rights cinema award (an Amnesty International initiative). NEW YEAR BABY aired on national PBS and was a finalist for the Independent Lens Audience Award. Vogl has worked with several Academy Award and Emmy Award nominated and winning filmmakers. Recently he worked with Directors Sarah & Emily Kunstler on the feature documentary WILLIAM KUNSTLER DISTURBING THE UNIVERSE (ITVS / CPB), with Chris Wong on WHATEVER IT TAKES (Sundance Institute / CAAM / CPB), and Cynthia Wade's documentary BORN SWEET, with David Nakabayashi on SMOKE AND MIRRORS. He has a B.S. from the USC Annenberg School and is the Jessie Ball duPont Foundation Scholar in graduate studies in Divinity at Yale University.