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Sokha is a Ph.D. candidate in Public Policy at McCormack Graduate School of Policy and Global Studies, University of Massachusetts-Boston (UMB). She earned her Bachelor of Arts in International Relations from the University of Cambodia and her Master’s in Development Policy from the KDI School of Public Policy and Management in South Korea. Her dissertation examines the experiences and resistances of Cambodian migrant women fish sorters to their working conditions in Thailand. Sokha is also a graduate research assistant at UMB's Institute for Asian American Studies and Center for Social Policy. She has worked on several research projects, such as the Cambodian Housing Quality Index, Tanzanian Residential Mobility, Universal Basic Income at the City of Summerville, and the Impact of COVID-19 on the Cambodian community in Lowell, Massachusetts. She is a co-PI for research on Racial Disparities in Food-Stamps (SNAP) Receipt in Massachusetts.

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