BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Serving year 2004 & 2005 term
Mr. Vi Houi
President
Dayton, Ohio
Mr. Vi Houi is a retired high
school teacher of Industrial Technology. He holds a Master degree in Education.
He taught for 30 years in Dayton City Schools in Ohio (1972-2002).
He is a community leader who has been serving the Cambodian Communities since
1975 on local, state and national levels. He is one of the founders
of Cambodian American National Council (CANC), formerly known as the Cambodian
Network Council (CNC). He has devoted his time and energy to promote
the vision of CANC to be a strong national organization to resolve many issues
facing many Cambodian Americans such as deportation laws, democratic system
& freedom of speech in Cambodia, land and border issues, and many more.
Mr. Vi Houi is the current president of the Cambodian American Network Council.
Mr. Tung Yap
Vice President, East Coast
Great Falls, Virginia
Mr. Tung Yap is currently the
board Vice President, East Coast, of the Cambodian American National Council
(CANC). He has served CANC since 1995 in the capacity as a board
member, chairman of the Nomination, Election and Membership committee and
webmaster. He was also the chairman of the Campaign for Hope and Renewal
of the Cambodian Association of Illinois, a campaign that has raised over
million dollars to build the first Cambodian American Heritage Museum and
the Killing Field Memorial in Chicago. Mr. Yap had served as a member
of the Asian American Advisory Council to the Illinois State Treasurer Judy
Baar Topinka for more than six years and had helped Mayor Richard M. Daley
of Chicago with the Year 2000 Millennium Celebration, a celebration that
invited two ordinary citizens from every country as honor guests.
He had served as the president of the Cambodian Association of Illinois
for two terms. Mr. Yap had helped establish many Cambodian student
organizations and had held top leadership positions in most of those organizations
when he was a student. Mr. Yap earned his BS in electrical and computer
engineering from the Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT) in 1989 and his
MS in the same field at IIT in 1994. At present, he works as a Programmer/Analyst
at Nextel Communications.
Mr. Chenda Taing
Vice President, Midwest
Wheeling, Illinois
Mr. Chenda Taing is a native
of Pursat province in Cambodia. He had served as a board member, treasurer
and vice president of the Cambodian Association of Illinois (CAI).
At present, he is finishing up his third two-year term as the president of
the Cambodian Association of Illinois, an organization that serves as the
primary social services provider and voices for the 7,000 Cambodians living
in Illinois. CAI has raised over one million dollars to build the First
Cambodian American Heritage Museum and the Killing Field Memorial in Chicago.
Mr. Taing had served as a controller of the Cambodian Buddhist Association
in Illinois. He also serves as a member of the Asian Advisory Council
to the Illinois Secretary of State Jesse White. He is the 2nd vice
president of CANC and has been a board member of CANC since 1998. He
was a recipient of the Community Services Award from Asian American Coalition
of Chicago and the Illinois Secretary of State. He is the owner of Angkor
Wat Market, Inc in Chicago. He obtained an associate degree from DeVry
Institute of Technology in 1983 and has begun his careers at Cobra Electronics
Corporation since he graduated.
Mr.
Nitha Tep
Vice President, West Coast
Houston, Texas
Mr. Nitha Tep was born in Phnom
Penh, Cambodia and came to the United States in 1981. He has been very active
in the Cambodian community since 1982. He had served as an advisor
of Khmer Society of Houston, president of Buddharaingsey Temple of Houston.
Currently, he serves as the president of Cambodian Association of Houston,
an association that serves approximately 8 to 10 thousands Cambodians in
social services including Cambodian language, tutoring and cultural dances.
He was one of the founders of the Khemararam Temple and Moranak Sangkros
Fund Foundation. Through his exemplary volunteering, the Cambodian Student
Association of Houston and Buddharaingsey Temple of Houston had presented
him with the community services awards.
He received baccalaureate II from both Lycee Descartes in Phnom Penh
and Lycee Sisowath. He was a second year student of Faculty of Law
School in Phnom Penh at the time that the Khmer Rouge regime took control
of Cambodia and began the Killing Fields era. He has been working
at Coca Cola Bottling Company since 1982 as a lab technician. He is
happily married Sras Tep for more than twenty three years and they have two
children.
Mr. Yuvora Nong
General Secretary
Alexandria, Virginia
Mr. Yuvora Nong was born in
Phnom Penh, Cambodia in 1971 and has lived in the United States since 1974.
He graduated from the University of Florida in 1994 with a degree in Economics
and Political Science and received his law degree from the Florida State
University in 1997.
Following law school, Mr. Nong practiced civil litigation with a firm
in West Palm Beach, Florida where he represented both the insurance industry
and plaintiffs before turning his focus to the practice of Immigration and
Nationality law. In 2002, Mr. Nong, opened his own practice in Virginia where
he handles matters of Immigration law, along with general civil litigation
cases. He currently represents Cambodian clients, as well as, other ethnicities
before the Bureau of Citizenship & Immigration Services, Immigration
Courts, and Circuit Courts.
Mr. Nong is licensed to practice law in Florida, Virginia and the District
of Columbia. He serves on the Board of Directors of the Cambodian American
National Council where he oversees the By-Laws Committee. Mr. Nong is also
counsel to the Royal Embassy of Cambodia where he handles matters for the
Embassy and personnel. He is a member of the American Immigration Lawyers
Association and the National Asian Pacific American Bar Association and is
active in the Cambodian-American community.
Ms.
Vannath Chea
Board Member
Phnom Penh, Cambodia
Ms. Vannath Chea has worked and volunteered
in many area related to the community and social development. She
is the President and CEO of the Center for Social Development in Cambodia,
a major non-government organization in Cambodia. When she was in the
United States, she had worked as interpreter, employment counselor, and
social services in various agencies in Oregon.
She is a current Executive National Deputy Commissioner of the Girl Guides
Association of Cambodia (GGAC), under the high patronage of the Queen of
Cambodia. GGAC is a member of the World Association of Girl Guides and Girl
Scouts in the United Kingdom.
Currently, she is a member of the Board of Directors of the Cambodian
American National Council, a nationwide networking among the American-Cambodian
Associations in the US. As a CANC Board member abroad, she symbolizes the
presence of CANC (former CNC) in Cambodia – since the phasing out of its CANDO
Program.
She is a former president of the Coalition for Free and Fair Election
(COFFEL), composed of more than forty grass-root organizations members, a
former president of the Community Sanitation and Recycling Organization in
which the mission is to encourage and motivate urban poor people to improve
their capacity and their environment, social and economic conditions, a former
Advisory Board Member of the “Humanitarian Accountability Project”, a project
aims at promoting accountability in the humanitarian sector.
Ms. Chea is a graduate of the Lycee Sisowath and Royal School of Administration
in Cambodia and holds a master degree in Public Administration from Portland
State University.
Mr.
Sathonne Chhim
Board Member
New York, New York
Mr. Timothy S Chhim is a native
of Kompong Chhnang province. He had served as a representative of the
Cambodian Network Council to the United Nation and non-governmental organization,
president of the Cambodian American Society, Inc., president of the Cambodian
World Congress.
Currently, he serves as the chairman of Watt Samakki Dhammikaram, Inc.
New York, chairman of the Nomination, Election and Membership Committee
of CANC. He is also the president of T. Chhim Agency, Inc, an insurance
agency in Nanuet, NY. He likes writing, researching, music and movies
producing.
Mr.
Phavann Chhuan
Board Member
Rockville, Maryland
Mr. Wutha Chin
Board Member
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Mr. Wutha Chin has been serving
the Cambodian American in many capacities. He was the Executive Director
of the Cambodian Association of Greater Philadelphia (CAGP). He had
also served as the Executive Director of the Cambodian American National
Council. Currently, he is serving his third term as the president of
CAGP, his fifth year as a board member of CANC, his fourth year as a board
member of Pan Asian of Greater Philadelphia.
He works for the City of Philadelphia’s department of human relations
commission, handling all matters concerning neighborhood dispute, racial
tension and investigating allegation of civil right violation. At present
he is master degree candidate in the field of Organizational Management at
University of Phoenix.
He received BS from Institute Technic Superior Higher
Technical Institute of Russian Cambodian Friendship 1970. Then he
went to work for the army from 1970 to 1975. He came to the US in
1975, initially work in textile factory in Wisconsin, 1978 went to CA, since
1980 he worked in information technology for Electronic Data Systems and
IBM until he retired.
He was president of Cambodian Community of Pennsylvania, first president
of Indochinese Association of Pennsylvania. He was a founding member of Cambodian
American National Council in 1988.
Dr. Hay S. Meas
Board Member
Tacoma, Washington
Dr. Meas is a general medical
doctor. He is a practicing obstetrician and gynecologist in private
practice. He has over 29 years of formal medical training. He
has a State of Ohio, State of Texas, State of Nebraska, and the State of
Washington medical licenses. Dr. Meas is a fellow of the International
College of Surgeons and he is a member of the International Leadership Development
organization. Dr. Meas has been the recipient of the Best Resident
Award, and Physician Recognition Awards of American Medical Association.
Dr. Meas is a community leader marked by his exemplary services to the
Cambodian community as well as to the mainstream community at large.
In the past, he has served in the greater Tacoma, Washington areas on the
United Way Health Care panel, as a board of director and President of the
Khmer Community of Tacoma, and as a board of director for the Indochinese
Cultural and Services Center. In the state of Texas, he has served
his community by being a board of advisor on the Cambodian Association of
Houston. He was a founding member of the Texas Buddhist society and
former vice president. In addition, he was one of the founders of the
Buddharaingsey Temple in Houston, and one of the founders of the Cambodian
Cultural City, Inc., which he served as the president. Furthermore,
he was one of the founders of the Cambodian American National Council (CANC),
served as a Board of director, and served as First Vice President of CANC
in 2002-2003.
Mr. Chanthou Oeur
Board Member
Bladensburg, Maryland
Mr. Suykry Path
Board Member
Chanhassen, Minnesota
Mr. Suykry Path is presently
a board member of the Cambodian American National Council (CANC). He
is the chairman of the Cambodia’s Border Committee of CANC. He was
a founding member of the Coalition for Democracy in Cambodia (CDC).
He is presently the president of CDC. He was a founding member and chairman
of Democracy Committee of World Cambodian Congress, a founding member
and president of the Khmer National Alliance, a founding member and president
of the Sons of Cambodia.
Currently, he is working as Senior Computer Programmer Analyst at United
States Postal Service. Mr. Path received his AA degree in Business
Data Processing at Milwaukee Area Technical College (MATC) in 1978, a bachelor
degree in Forestry from the National School of Agriculture, Veterinary and
Sylviculture of Chamcar Mon, Forestry section, Phnom Penh in 1965.
Ms. Chhunthiem Ung
Board Member
Granby, Massachusetts
Ms. Chhunthiem Ung has been a very active member of
the Cambodian American community member. She had volunteered for translating
and broadcasting for a Cambodian TV in California, served as work shops
presenter and panelist, served as a member of the board of director of Children
Aid & Family Services of Hampshire County, Massachusetts, Cambodian
Association of Amherst and the Cambodian American National Council for over
ten years.
Ms. Ung received a master of education degree from Lesley College, Massachusetts
in 1991. Currently, she holds two certifications (1-6). She received
more than 30 credits from the Long Beach City College for English, a license
– Es – Lattres (equivalent to a BA of Liberal Arts) from the University of
Phnom Penh in 1973, a Credential of Teaching in Secondary School (Diplome
De Professorat) in Cambodia. She attended Sisowatt High School and
passed her Baccalaureate II with Magna Cum Laude.
Ms. Ung has worked for 15 years as an elementary school teacher in Amherst
Public School System, Massachusetts. In California, Ms. Ung had worked
as an Intake Assessment Counselor at United Cambodian Community for three
years. She had worked as a teacher and an administrator inside Cambodia
and in the Ampil Camp, a Cambodian camp adjacent to Thailand.
