I graduated in Media & Communication at Royal University of Phnom Penh in 2010. I have been freelancing for Agence France Presse and foreign media publications since 2008. When I am not writing news reports, I blog about social issues and everything Cambodian at www.blueladyblog.com.  I have been blogging since 2007 and have conducted workshops on blogging and social media for university students, artists and professionals.

In early 2011, i was also one of the speakers in Cambodia’s first TEDx events where I talked about blogging and its influence on the next generation of Cambodia. I have been regularly invited by educational institutions to speak to young students. I have attended a number of conferences and workshops on social media and journalism in different parts of the world.

In the year 2009, I was chosen along with three other professionals from Cambodia to study new media journalism at the Deutsch Welle Akademie in Germany.  I was also selected to participate in a training workshop on the Khmer Rouge Tribunal in Cambodia and Germany in early 2010.

In late 2010, I received a fellowship from the Population Reference Bureau in Washington DC to travel to the United States and Ethiopia where I participated in workshops on women’s health issues.  I was selected among fifteen other journalists form Asia and Africa to study multimedia and online journalism in Germany at the beginning of 2011.  I was also invited to the 2011 World Conference of Science Journalists in Doha, Qatar.

I traveled to Paris to attend the 7th UNESCO Youth Forum as a young blogger and journalist to represent the Asia-Pacific region.  In November and December 2011, separately, I attended the ASEAN Blog Summit in Bali and BlogXchange in Djakarta, which allowed me to interact with other international bloggers and broaden my experience with the ASEAN community.  I am very interested in using the experience I gain to publish more.

New media is my newly-found passion.  I am currently working as a Digital manager for a mass youth campaign by BBC Media Action, the British Broadcasting Corporation’s international charity.