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  • When I Signed Up for a CSR Session and Found a Community

    When I Signed Up for a CSR Session and Found a Community

    In 2023, I joined the first cohort of Up:skill Women in Tech, a programme organised by the Cambodia Academy of Digital Technology (CADT), Digital Transformation Center Cambodia (DTC), and GIZ. The programme brought together women from different backgrounds and career stages for sessions on technology, professional development, leadership, and other parts of working…

  • Behind the Dialogue: What It Took to Bring Cambodia’s First Multi-Stakeholder Conversation on ESG to Life

    Behind the Dialogue: What It Took to Bring Cambodia’s First Multi-Stakeholder Conversation on ESG to Life

    I still remember the sound of the room before I remember anything else — chairs being shifted into rows, someone testing a microphone twice, small conversations overlapping in Khmer and English near the coffee table. It was the morning of 8 August 2024, at the Himawari Hotel in Phnom Penh, not yet 8:30.…

  • Beyond Access: Rethinking My Work Through Equity-Focused Design

    Beyond Access: Rethinking My Work Through Equity-Focused Design

    I recently completed Foundations of User Experience (UX) Design, part of the Google UX Design Certificate on Coursera. I expected to come away with a new vocabulary—wireframes, prototypes, user journeys, design thinking. What I didn’t expect was for one concept, equity-focused design, to make me stop and look back at work I had…