Kalyanee Mam ’99: Cambodia to Wall Street to SundanceWhen your family survives one of the most brutal dictatorships in modern history, everything else might seem mild in comparison. Still, Kalyanee Mam ’99 has tackled some tough subjects in her years as a lawyer and documentary filmmaker: human rights, Iraqi refugees, the global financial crisis. Now she has returned to her native Cambodia—which her family fled in 1979, after the fall of the Khmer Rouge, and about which Mam wrote her Yale senior essay—and emerged with a Sundance Film Festival entry, A River Changes Course.
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