Resume

• University Teaching

  Grant Writing

  Higher Education

  Community Outreach

  PowerPoint

  Research Design

  Program Development

  Student Development

  Research

  Academic Advising

  Teaching

  Qualitative Research

  Curriculum Development

  Public Speaking

  Program Evaluation

  Community and Family Resilience

  Strength

  and Well-being: Socio-cultural Influences on Cambodian and Laotian Refugee Communities' Responses to Environmental Challenges

  This project is funded by the National Academies of Sciences

  Engineering

  and Medicine in collaboration with the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. \nRefugee and immigrant communities’ histories and cultural differences present unique vulnerabilities and challenges for achieving community resilience in response to environmental stressors and disasters. This project will engage with Cambodian and Laotian families in coastal Alabama to determine how individual

  family

  and community-level strengths and vulnerabilities contribute to community health and well-being and how individuals utilize social networks and formal services to respond to stressors. Culturally responsive interventions and strategies for increasing community capacity and resilience will be developed.\nCo-investigators include University of Georgia Faculty: Desiree M. Seponski

  Curtis Harris

  Sarah DeYoung

  & Tawny Waltz and community partners: Heang Bun Chhun

  Samoeuy Chim

  & Visanou Khamphouey.

  Refugee Responsiveness Program

  With a team of researchers

  we have developed a series called Refugee Responsiveness Program (RRP) in collaboration with Jubilee Partners

  a refugee resettlement organization. Our team leads a series of workshops at the local resettlement center near Athens

  Georgia with refugees from around the world. RRS consists of a comprehensive set of 2-hour interactive workshops teaching a variety of topics of particular interests and needs for refugee families in the U.S.

  including nutrition

  dental health

  women's health

  parenting

  legalities/citizenship

  finances

  mental health and culture shock.

  Charity Somo

  Project LEAF

  Lewis

  Lewis

  University of Georgia

  International and domestic research focused on aging in the context of refugee

  immigrant

  transnational

  and marginalized families. Teaching focused on aging

  diversity

  and qualitative methods. Principal Investigator for Cambodian-Laotian Community Strength & Resilience Project. Co-director of the Refugee Responsiveness Program. Director of study abroad programs in Europe and Southeast Asia.

  University of Georgia

  English

  Khmer

  University of Kentucky