Kilong Ung – Journey from the Killing Fields to Building Schools

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Kilong Ung is a survivor of the genocide in Cambodia. He escaped with about half his family when he was a young teenager, and came to the US as a refugee. He went to Reed College, then grad school in mathematics, then worked as a consultant for Arthur Anderson and STEP Technology in Portland, before leaving the tech world to start his own insurance agency in Portland.

He’s been in the documentary film The Bombhunters (director Skye Fitzgerald was named a Filbright Scholar to research and produce that film), TV shows Deadliest Warrior and Deadliest Warrior Aftermath, and the documentary Risking Light.

He published a book about his journey, and started Golden Leaf Education Foundation, which so far has raised money for and completed building 5 schools in Cambodia.