Leakhena Nou, PhD, founding director of ASRIC, is an assistant professor of sociology at California State University, Long Beach and visiting scholar at the Asian Pacific American (A/P/A) Institute at New York University. She holds a PhD and MA in sociology (University of Hawaii at Manoa), an MSW (Columbia University), and a BA in sociology (California State University, Fullerton). Her work in medical sociology focuses on Cambodians in Cambodia and the diaspora, with particular emphasis on survivors of the Khmer Rouge genocide and their children. This work complements Nou's additional research in political sociology and human rights; for example, she has examined political attitudes and perceptions of democracy held by Khmer university students in Cambodia. Nou is currently working on a paper that explores the role of Cambodian diaspora communities in defining transitional justice in Cambodia. She recently participated in the International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights Summer Institute training in Bali, Indonesia (June 22-July 3, 2009).

Theodora (Teddy) Yoshikami, MA is the director of program development for ASRIC. She is also the manager of public programs at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City, where she creates and develops diverse cultural and educational programs. Yoshikami has a master's degree in performance studies from the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences at New York University.

Marcelo Falcón Vignoli is the founder and president of the Asociación Cultural Sousencre in France. Vignoli studied and then taught at Uruguay's University of the Republic's faculty of fine arts. He is a doctoral student at the University of Barcelona's faculty of fine arts' design and image department, where his doctoral research focuses on the emotional meaning of the draft. Vignoli is also a researcher at the University René Descartes' sociology department, where his work focuses on artistic education and society, and at the University of Valladolid, where his research focuses on Spanish heritage education. His background in art will inform his work with ASRIC as he focuses on preserving survivors' individual and collective identities through creative projects slated for 2010.

Benjamin S. Luis is a volunteer lawyer for ASRIC. Originally a practicing lawyer in the Philippines, Luis is currently based in Phnom Penh working on behalf of the Cambodian-American Diaspora. Luis assists Dr. Nou in shared research on how to increase both access to international tribunals and the relevance of such tribunals to finding justice for the Khmer people. Luis received his JD and BA in social sciences (magna cum laude), specializing in political science and philosophy, from the University of the Philippines. He has been involved in international research on extrajudicial killings in the Philippines, border disputes, and idiosyncrasies of democratic institutions involving Southeast Asian countries. His BA thesis addressed ancestral land claims of indigenous peoples. Along with Dr. Nou, Luis participated in the International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights Summer Institute training in Bali, Indonesia, in the summer of 2009.

Colleen McGinn, MS, MPhil, is a PhD candidate at the Columbia University School of Social Work, where she specializes in international social work, social service management, and disaster mental health. She also holds an MA in international development from Tulane University, where she wrote her thesis on transitional justice. A humanitarian aid worker by profession, McGinn volunteers with ASRIC. Professionally, she has managed relief operations across Asia, Africa, and the Balkans. She lives in Phnom Penh, where she is conducting doctoral research on forced migration.

Audrey Redmond is an attorney in Washington, DC, where she will begin practicing government and regulatory affairs law in 2010. Until that time, she volunteers her legal services full time to ASRIC's Cambodian Diaspora Victims' Participation Project as the legal point of contact for survivors who wish to learn about and participate in the on-going trials at the ECCC. Redmond graduated from Santa Clara University School of Law where she earned a certificate in international and comparative law. She served as editor in chief of the Santa Clara Journal of International Law, during which time she met Dr. Nou and became familiar with the work of ASRIC. Redmond has studied international humanitarian law and law organizations in Geneva, Switzerland, and participated in human rights- and criminal tribunal-related work and conferences in Strasbourg, France, including attending lectures and discussions with key human rights experts from around the world.

Julie Sheker is a pro bono legal advisor for the Cambodian Diaspora Victims' Participation Project. As such, she works to further the goal of helping Cambodian communities across the United States recover from the effects of the Khmer Rouge genocide. Julie first traveled to Cambodia in 2003 as a tourist. Inspired by the warmth, strength, ingenuity, and entrepreneurial spirit of the Cambodian people, Sheker returned to Cambodia in 2005 to work on capacity building and rule-of-law issues. She also helped to organize and manage clinical legal education events aimed at providing legal outreach services to Cambodians living in the provinces. Sheker has authored legal curricula addressing Cambodian criminal law and procedure, and was a contributing author to a legal manual for the ECCC. Prior to working in Cambodia, Sheker litigated civil rights cases in the US District Court for the District of Columbia. She holds a JD from the University of Denver, College of Law, and an LLM in international human rights law from Georgetown University Law Center.

Cathy J. Schlund-Vials (Publicity / Program Curator) is an Assistant Professor in English and Asian American Studies at the University of Connecticut at Storrs. She is also the Associate Director of the UConn Asian American Studies Institute. Her work on Cambodian American narrative functions as a starting point for her involvement with ASRIC. Her research interests include refugee cultural production, critical race theory, and contemporary ethnic American literary studies. Rooted in a personal history marked by immigration, migration, and diaspora, Dr. Schlund-Vials’ academic projects are informed by the experiences of dislocation and migration, and the crucial connections between history, memory, citizenship, and human rights. Her first book, Modeling Citizenship: Naturalization in Jewish and Asian American Writing (forthcoming, Temple University Press), examines the interplay between citizenship, performance, and immigration policy in the literatures of two "model minority" groups. Dr. Schlund-Vials' second book, Resistive Memory: Genocide Remembrance, Justice, and Cambodian American Memory Work (forthcoming, University of Minnesota Press), focuses its analytical attention on juridical activism in Cambodian American literature, performance, film, and hip hop.