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Austin Cooper was born and raised in Southern California. He transferred to USC in the fall of 2013 and is majoring in Policy, Planning, and Development with an emphasis in Nonprofits & Social Innovations. Patrick Lee is a sophomore majoring in Architecture at the University of Southern California. He was born in Texas and comes from a Taiwanese background. He is set to graduate in 2017 and hopes to also complete a minor in Urban Planning and Development. Ioan Trayanov is a sophomore majoring in Neuroscience. He was born in Bulgaria and attended school in the US. He plans to attend medical school after his graduation in 2016 [Profiler bio] Born in 1967, Sayon Syprasoeuth is of Laotian descent and lived in Cambodia until he was six years old. At this age, he escaped Cambodia with his family and entire village into Thailand. In 1979, after living in a refugee camp for a couple of years, his family and village were sponsored by a Lutheran church in Iowa to come to America. Sayon describes his experience of being a minority (Laotian) within Cambodia and the subsequent misinformation he was exposed to - that the Cambodians were responsible for the bombing and killing of his people. After coming to America he researched and learned about the Khmer Rouge and the real perpetrators behind the violence toward the innocent people in Cambodia, who were both Cambodian and Laotian alike. Sayon is an artist and has composed artwork reflective of the complicated emotions and experiences he and fellow victims of the Vietnam War have undergone. [Profile bio]
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