Sarun Chan
Template:TOCnestleft Sarun Chan is Associate director at Cambodian Association of Greater Philadelphia (CAGP). Former Youth Program Director at Cambodian Association of Greater Philadelphia. He is the former Youth Program Director at the Cambodian Association of Greater Philadelphia. He attended the Pennsylvania State University where majored in Sociology with a minor in English. Sarun was born in a refugee camp in Thailand during Cambodia’s civil war after the fall of the genocidal Khmer Rouge regime. Sarun coordinates programming where he works with directly with groups across the various generations. Sarun also works on projects that require him to collaborate regularly with other agencies on the local and national level where it directly impacts communities of color. His interest includes demography, race & ethnic relations, identity, and events coordinating.
Education
- Studied Sociology at Pennsylvania State University
- Went to Creative and Performing Arts High School
Census work
Stephanie Sun and Sarun Chan co-facilitated the Census Champion workshop at the Cambodian Association of Greater Philadelphia in May 2020. With about one month to go until Census Day, April 1, it’s crunch time for job fairs hiring on-the-ground enumerators to count hard-to-reach communities.
On Saturday, the Cambodian Association of Greater Philadelphia hosted its final Census Champion training — an initiative by the city’s Philly Counts Office for the 2020 Census to train community members to become neighborhood messengers on the census. It also hosted a U.S. Census Bureau job fair. Philadelphia is hoping to hire 3,000 temporary workers to knock on doors in May to count people who did not respond to the census online, over the phone, or via mail.
Sarun Chan, the association’s executive director, said reaching Philly’s Cambodian community — many of whose members live in immigrant enclaves in North and South Philadelphia — is crucial this time around. Philadelphia has the fourth largest Cambodian population among U.S. cities. According to 2010 census estimates, roughly 10,000 Cambodians lived in Philadelphia.[1]
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Asian Americans United November 3, 2014:
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Asian Americans United's youth group, the Chinese Youth Organizing Project (CYOP), during their training and preparation before their door knocking campaign in Chinatown Philadelphia and South Philadelphia.
With walkie talkies in hand, turf-divided maps, scripts, clipboards, voter information materials in English & Chinese, & courageous hearts, 2 dozen youth worked to empower Asia... See More — with Wei Chen, Stephanie Frank Singer, Duong Thang Ly, Stephen Magnotti, Duong Nghe Ly, Taylor Burckhalter, Lan Nguyen, Viet Luu, Linh Pham, Nancy Dung Nguyen, Miguel Rivera, Sarun Chan, Ellen Somekawa, Helen Gym, Minh Nguyen-Rivera, Annie Seng, Xue Yan Zhang, Xu Lin, Brandon Huynh and Miguel Esteban Andrade at Asian Americans United.