Le Sen is a specialist in gender and minorities and is the lead for WPM projects that focus on intersectionality and identity. Coming from a minority Cham Muslim community herself, she has been deeply inspired working with ethnic, religious, and cultural minority girls and young women across the country. She also works with the LGBTIQ+ community and women with disabilities engaged in participatory action research, art-based interventions on identity, and collective advocacy. Le is the lead author of “Making the Space: Voices from the girls of Cambodian minority communities,” a ground-breaking book that shares three years of the first-of-its-kind research conducted on the lived experiences, perspectives, challenges, issues, inner hopes, and dreams for the future of girls from four minority groups in Cambodia – Indigenous, ethnic Vietnamese, Cambodian Muslim, and Khmer Krom.
Le holds a bachelor’s degree in International Relations from the Royal University of Law and Economics. She is a former Young Southeast Asian Leaders Initiative (YSEALI) exchange program participant in the scope of civic engagement at University of Nebraska at Omaha and previously held the post of Public Affairs Assistant in the Public Affairs Section at the U.S. Embassy in Phnom Penh. Involved in community service since high school, Le has organised numerous trainings to build the capacity of young people in Cambodia and is passionate about raising the voices of those most often left behind in society.
