Ms. Khem Nuth currently serves as CAAAELII's
Training School Director. She has served multiple roles within CAAAELII, including a two-years internship as Loyola
University's Policy Research Action Group Intern and worked
with the Independent Monitoring
Board, a non-governmental, not-for-profit watchdog of the former Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS). With the IMB, she assisted in a national survey and co-wrote its findings in a report entitled, Nationwide INS Survey: Reviewing the INS on a National Level and in the Aftermath of September 11 th.
Khem is the eldest daughter of refugee parents who left the Killing Fields of Cambodia and settled in the Chicagoland area. She is a young emerging leader in her community as she finds new ways to help people find their personal voices. She helped establish and coordinate the Khmer Angels Cambodian Teen Girls Club at the Cambodian Association of Illinois (CAI) and served on the Board from 2003-2005.
Khem graduated from Loyola
University Chicago, with a Bachelor of Science in Social
Work. She is active in working with youths, and
helping them to find their voice through leadership development
and community participation. In 2005, she was selected as one of the YWCA's Outstanding Women Leaders and will be honored with a Promise Award.
