In this episode, we talk with Nek Kru Darachan Ros, she is a lifelong educator, community advocate, and cultural leader whose work spans Cambodia, Thailand, and the United States. Before arriving in America, she served as a public school teacher and principal in Pursat Province, Cambodia, helping shape education systems during a critical period of national rebuilding. From 1975 to 1979, like millions of Cambodians, she endured forced labor under the Khmer Rouge regime — an experience that profoundly shaped her resilience and commitment to service. After surviving displacement, Nek Kru Darachan worked in refugee camps in Thailand as an Agency Area Supervisor with CARE at Khao-I-Dang Refugee Camp, supporting pregnant refugee women and young children. After resettling in Tacoma, Washington, she dedicated more than three decades to family services, r ...