Khmer Girls in Action

Abstract

Khmer Girls in Action (KGA) began in 1997 as HOPE for Girls, a Cambodian young women's reproductive health and empowerment project. Since KGA's inception, the organization has been successful in developing the leadership of Southeast Asian, predominantly Khmer girls and young women to work on issues of immigrants and refugee rights, reproductive justice and building the Khmer American identity. To ensure the organization remains grounded in the community as it expands, KGA hired its first Khmer American Executive Director, Suely Ngouy in 2006. KGA connects the Khmer American experience to the Asian & Pacific Islander (API) community on social justice values and the struggle to end all forms of discrimination along lines of age, gender, class, race, and sexuality. The following pieces are from the Tongues Afire Workshop.