Mr. Ronnie Yimsut

Friday, Ronnie Yimsut and volunteers registered campers and directed them to camping areas.
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At 8:00PM, it started with a briefing from CACO Chairman, Chanly Bob, President, Kilong Ung, Community Center Project Vice-chair Ronnie Yimsut, and Education Director, Mony Mao.
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- Shower house - our volunteer Cameron and his wife cleaned up the shower area.

• Author, activist, community leader Ronnie Yimsut

Ronnie Yimsut emigrated to the U.S. via Thailand's refugee camp in late October of 1978.He went on to graduate from Beaverton High School, received a Bachelor of Science in Landscape Architecture, with an emphasis in environmental planning and design, from the University of Oregon in 1988.He has been serving as a Landscape Architect/Planner on two national forests in the Pacific Northwest Region in the past twelve years.He is currently serving as a District Landscape Architect for the Bend/Fort Rock Ranger District and as the Deschutes National Forest Special Emphasis Program Manager for Asian/ Pacific Islander on Civil Rights and Equal Employment Opportunity in Bend, Oregon.

Ronnie YimsutBorn and reared in Siem Reap province, Ronnie fled Cambodia after two decades of turmoil, where he witnessed the massacre of nearly his entire family under the Khmer Rouge regime.An orphan, a refugee, and a "political" prisoner at the age of fourteen, he is now a proud naturalized U.S. citizen, a family man, a professional, an author, an educator, and a volunteer back in his native homeland.Ronnie spent a year (1993-94) in Cambodia where he worked as a Volunteer Development Specialist attached to USAID funded Cambodian-American National Development Organization.He worked in human resource development, including micro-business development to assist urban poor families, instruction/training to university students, special forest products income generation in rural and remote areas, urban and rural planning, animal and seed banks management to support local farmers.He is a co-founder of Cambodia's "Big Brother, Big Sister" program, which has supported and served over 200 orphans.He is currently serving as an Environmental Consultant to the World Monuments Fund on conservation projects at the Angkor World Heritage Site.He is also active on issues facing by his Southeast Asian communities and community in his native Cambodia.

Ronnie's hobbies include ethnic food & music, native arts & crafts, language, history, custom, cultural awareness, community service/volunteering, gardening, as well as numerous other outdoor recreation activities.Married to Thavy (who is a Computer System Manager for the USDA Forest Service and also a Khmer-American) since 1986.They have a school-aged daughter and a young son.

Mr. Yimsut contributed the following articles to this site:
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Other Works by Ronnie Yimsut:

Mr. Kilong appears in the documentary along with Oregon author and Khmer activist Ronnie Yimsut, but director Skye Fitzgerald's focus is on a handful of bombhunters out of innumerable thousands of Cambodian poor looking to make a small pile of pennies from digging up deadly munitions.
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CACO's Ronnie Yimsut says it best: "Skye and his film crew, in my eyes at least, are champions for those little people who lack voice.

By Ronnie Yimsut
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RANACHITH (aka Ronnie) YIMSUT

Ranachith (Ronnie) Yimsut emigrated to the U.S. via Thailand's refugee camp in late October of 1978 as a refugee and a young orphan.He went on to graduate from Beaverton High School, received a Bachelor of Science in Landscape Architecture, with an emphasis in environmental planning and design from the University of Oregon in 1988.He has been serving as a Landscape Architect/Planner on two national forests in the Pacific Northwest Region in the past twelve years.He is currently serving as a District Landscape Architect and Special Emphasis Program Manager for Asian/Pacific Islander American.

Born and reared in Siem Reap Angkor Province of the world renounced Angkor World Heritage Site in the Kingdom of Cambodia, Ranachith fled Cambodia after two decades of turmoil where he witnessed the massacre of nearly his entire family, along with hundred others town people, under the Khmer Rouge genocide regime in December 1978.

Ranachith became an orphan, a refugee, and a "political" prisoner at the age of fourteen.He is now a proud naturalized U.S. citizen, a family man, a professional, a taxpayer, a freelance writer, a co-author of a book, an educator, and a volunteer back in his native homeland.Ronnie spent a year (1993-94) in Cambodia where he worked as a Volunteer Development Specialist attached to USAID funded Cambodian-American National Development Organization.He worked in human resource development, including micro-business development to assist urban poor families, instruction/training to university students, special forest products income generation in rural and remote areas, urban and rural planning, animal and seed banks management to support local farmers.He is a co-founder of "Big Brother, Big Sister" program in Cambodia and the Cambodian Orphanage Fund, which has supported and served over 200 orphans from local orphanages in Cambodia.

Ranachith is currently serving as an Environmental Consultant to the World Monuments Fund, a worldwide non-profit organization based in New York City, on conservation projects at Angkor World Heritage Site in Siem Reap Angkor Province, his birthplace.He is also serving as a volunteer consultant to the Documentation Center of Cambodia, which is actively doing research in regards to the Khmer Rouge regime between 1975 and 1979.

Currently serving as the Deschutes National Forest Special Emphasis Program Manager (SEPM) for Asian/ Pacific Islander (A/PI) on Civil Rights and Equal Employment Opportunity, Ranachith has been active in providing professional services to the Deschutes National Forest employees and the diverse forest visitors/workers, including SE Asians.He has been busy working with the Matsutake mushroom program where ethnic diversity is a major issue on the Deschutes National Forest.He is active on issues facing by his SE Asian community in his native Cambodia and in his community in America.

Ronnie Yimsut

Ronnie Yimsut immigrated to the U.S. via Thailand's refugee camp in late October of 1978.He went on to graduate from Beaverton High School, received a Bachelor of Science in Landscape Architecture, with an emphasis in environmental planning and design, from the University of Oregon in 1988.He has been serving as a Landscape Architect/Planner on two national forests in the Pacific Northwest Region in the past eighteen years.He is currently serving as a District Landscape Architect for the Bend/Fort Rock Ranger District and previously serving as the Deschutes National Forest Special Emphasis Program Manager for Asian/ Pacific Islander on Civil Rights and Equal Employment Opportunity in Bend, Oregon.He has been a member of various NGO's and Diversity Committee.

Born and reared in Siem Reap province, Ronnie fled Cambodia after two decades of turmoil, where he witnessed the massacre of nearly his entire family under the Khmer Rouge regime.An orphan, a refugee, and a "political" prisoner at the age of fourteen, he is now a proud naturalized U.S. citizen, a family man, a professional, an author, an educator, and a volunteer back in his native homeland.Ronnie spent a year (1993-94) in Cambodia where he worked as a Volunteer Development Specialist attached to USAID funded Cambodian-American National Development Organization.He worked in human resource development, including micro-business development to assist urban poor families, instruction/training to university students, special forest products income generation in rural and remote areas, urban and rural planning, animal and seed banks management to support local farmers.He is a co-founder of Cambodia's "Big Brother, Big Sister" program, which has supported and served over 200 orphans in Cambodia.He is currently serving as an Environmental Consultant to the World Monuments Fund on conservation projects at the Angkor World Heritage Site.He is also active on issues facing by his Southeast Asian communities and community in his native Cambodia.

Ronnie's hobbies include ethnic food & music, native arts & crafts, language, history, custom, cultural awareness, community service/volunteering, gardening, as well as numerous other outdoor recreation activities.Married to Thavy , a Khmer-American, since 1986; they have a school-aged daughter and a young son.

Mr. Yimsut contributed the following articles to this Mekong.net site:

Cambodia: Nationalism, Patriotism, Racism, and Fanaticism.An essay on the elements of Khmer nationalism and ideology. Light at the End of the Tunnel.Some thoughts on the future of Cambodia, excerpted from an upcoming book. Vietnam: Was it Liberation or Invasion?When the Vietnamese invaded Cambodia in 1979, some people saw them as saviors.Others saw them as oppressors.To some extent, both groups may be right. Other Works by Ronnie Yimsut: