Sophy Theam ( sophy7@walla.com) Member of the Board
I arrived to the U.S. in July of 1984 and grew up in Bristol, Connecticut.
A founding member of Raksmei Kone
Khmer, I graduated in May 1999 from the school
of Arts and Sciences at Boston College,
with a B.A. in Psychology. Ever since my college graduation, I have been
working, volunteering, and currently living in Lowell, Massachusetts.
Right out of college, I began a temporary job working with youth in Lynn, Massachusetts in a
summer program run by Khmer Youth and Family
Services. I then went on to do event planning for the Cambodian Mutual
Assistance Association of Greater Lowell, worked as Company Manager for the
2001 Khmer Dance Tour: Dance, the Spirit of Cambodia, became a coordinator for
the Women’s Health Network at the Southeast Asian Bilingual Advocates
Inc. (SABAI), and worked part time for the Cambodian American League of
Lowell’s monthly newspaper publication. The longest record for my
keeping a full time job is with the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Farm
Service Agency, where I have been employed for over two years as a Program
Technician position, specializing in Farm disaster and price support programs
for farmers in the Middlesex and Essex counties of Massachusetts. I have
also been a fellow for about two years for the Theodore Edison Parker
Foundation, which concentrates on funding in Lowell.
I am the writer of
“Flashes”, an autobiographical theatre piece about growing up as a
Khmer American young woman, as well as the Associate Producer for the
documentary “Dancing Through Death: the Monkey, Magic, & Madness of
Cambodia”. I served as Assistant Director and Actress in the play,
“Photographs from S-21”, a short play about ghosts from the torture
chambers of Tuol Sleng, and
will be Associate Producer for the upcoming play at the National Asian American
Theatre Company in New York City
on psychosomatic blindness in older Khmer refugee women called, “Eyes of
the Heart.” Both plays were written by a French-American woman,
Catherine Filloux.
My interests include writing
plays, story telling, tennis, and camping. I hope to be more fluent in
the Khmer language and be involved in the movement to help release child
prostitutes. As a career I would like to pursue teaching in Anthropology,
Folklore, World History, or Cultural Pyschology,
possibly at the college level.
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