Chath pierSath

CHATH PIER SATH
116 Sawyer Road, Bolton, Massachusetts 01740

Chath Pier Sath went to the United States as a refugee in 1981 at the age of 10. While growing up in the United States, he had always intended to return to his homeland, using his education to help rebuild his country in some way. Since he returned to Cambodia for the first time in 1994 to work as a volunteer for the Cambodian-American National Development Organization (CANDO), he has lived between his adopted home in the United States and in Cambodia, contributing his skills to a variety of development organizations. Over the last 13 years, Chath has brought his unique perspective and experience to local non-governmental organizations during various stages of their development by assisting them in fundraising, program operations and strategic planning. Chath is an experienced facilitator and trainer, having facilitated strategic planning and program designs for Human Rights Vigilance of Cambodia and Cambodian Volunteers for Community Development, among others. He has been at the forefront of fundraising efforts for Cambodian NGOs in the areas of public health, human rights, and the arts. His strength in strategic thinking and writing has allowed him to assist these organizations in conceptualizing and designing programs and writing successful proposals for funders. He is fluent in English and Khmer, with an intermediate knowledge of French, an asset that he has brought to all of his professional endeavors, allowing him to liaise between local and international organizations and officials of all levels. He has worked extensively in the area of mental health, in positions ranging from work with street children on psycho-social issues to raising awareness of HIV and AIDS prevention with Cambodia's lesbian, transgender and gay community. An accomplished self-taught artist, Chath has brought his creativity to his work in development, using drama, visual art, and dance in mental health education and community outreach. In addition to paid positions, Chath has been an active member of every community he has called home, serving on several boards of non-profits as well as giving of his time volunteering.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Trainer, HIV/AIDS counseling
Russian-Cambodian Friendship Hospital, Phnom Penh, February 2007-March 2007

Psycho-social Counselor
South Bay Mental Health Center, Lowell, MA, August 2004-November 2005

Instructor, Art and English
Sovann Komar (Golden Children) Orphanage, Phnom Penh, 2003-present (intermittent)

Interpreter and Co-Trainer
Cambodian Social Worker of Cambodia, Phnom Penh, Cambodia, October 2003-August, 2004

Consultant and Co-Training Facilitator
KHANA, Phnom Penh, Cambodia, October 2003-August, 2004

Associate Program Manager
GEAR-UP (Gaining Early Awareness and Readiness for Undergraduate Programs), University of Massachusetts Lowell, MA, April 1999-November 2002

Research Assistant
University of Massachusetts Lowell, MA, June 1997-April 1999

Production Intern
Lowell Telecommunications, Inc., Lowell MA, June 1999-September1999

HIV/AIDS Outreach Worker and Case Manager
Lowell House, Inc., Lowell MA, August 1997-August 1998

Health/AIDS Educator
Lowell Community Health Center, Lowell MA, June 1996-Devember 1998

Assistant Director
Cambodian Mutual Assistance Association, Lowell MA, June 1996-August 1997

Environmental Justice Liaison
Center for Family, Work & Community, Lowell, MA, June 1996-Augsut 1997

Organizational Consultant and Administrative Advisor to the Director of Human Rights Vigilance of Cambodia
Cambodian American National Development Organization, Phnom Penh, May 1995-June 1996

Community Health Outreach Worker
Southeast Asian Center for Refugee Resettlement, San Francisco CA, July 1993-May 1994

COMMUNITY SERVICE

Cambodian Living Arts - Member of Board of Directors, 1999-2006

Lowell Cultural Council - Member of Board of Directors, 1999-2003

Massachusetts Foundation for the Humanities - Member of Board of Directors, 2001-2003

Cambodian Mutual Assistance Association - Member of Board of Directors, 1997-1998

Coalition for a Better Acre - Member of Board of Directors, 1996-1997

EDUCATION

L'Ecole Nationale Superieur des Beaux Arts, Paris, France, 2005-2006

M.A. degree, Community Social Psychology, University of Massachusetts at Lowell, 2000

B.A. degree, New College of California, International Service and Development, 1993

PUBLICATIONS

"After" - a book of letters presented as poems, by Chath pierSath - Abingdon Square Publishing, October 2009

"Where the Road Begins, an anthology" - Cultural Organization of Lowell (COOL). Kathy Devlin, Matthew Miller, LZ Nunn and Ggi Thibodeau, eds. 2007.

"The way I want to remember my Cambodia" - The Merrimack Literary Review. Ron Rowland & Greg Water, eds. 2004.

"Inching Toward Acceptance" - Commonwealth Magazine, June, 2002.

"An Invocation for Cambodia" - Prayers for a Thousand Years. Elizabeth J. Roberts and Elias Amidon, eds. 1999.

"Letter to my Mother" - Children of the Killing Fields: Memoir of Survivors. Compiled by Dith Pran; Kim DePaul, ed. 1994.

EXHIBITIONS

"Contagious Love" - a group exhibit at TGC Nordica, Kunming, China, December, 2007

"Lights and Shadows" - Java Café and Gallery, Phnom Penh, Cambodia, January-February, 2007.

"Cambodia's Faces of AIDS" - Foreign Correspondence Club and the Queen's Gallery, Bangkok, Thailand, July 1-July 30, 2004.

"Guide" - French Cultural Center, Phnom Penh, Cambodia, March-April, 2004.

"Cambodian Expressions" - Boot Mills Gallery, Lowell, Massachusetts, April 10-April 30, 2004.

"Meik Sratum," Cambodian Living Arts House" - Phnom Penh, Cambodia, January-February, 2004.

"Faces of Memory: Past and Present" - South End Open Studios, Boston, MA, September-October 2003.

"Outsider Art" - Java Café and Gallery, Phnom Penh, Cambodia, April-May, 2003.

"Emerging Voices/Healing Souls: Contemporary Cambodian Artists in the Aftermath of War" - La Boniche Restaurant, Lowell, Massachusetts, May-October, 2003.

Brush Art Gallery and Whistler House Museum, Lowell, MA, February-May, 2003.