WEDNESDAY, APRIL 5, 2006 | 9:30 AM to 12:30 PM | Olin Auditorium

MARDI SENG
Founder and President,
Plant Hope In Cambodia

Spring 2006 Big Conversations Speaker
Olin Students for Awesome, SERV and the Big Conversations Committee are pleased to announce the Spring 2006 Big Conversations will focus on Human Rights. The keynote speaker is  Mardi Seng, is a survivor of the Cambodian genocide and the Founder and President of the non-profit Plant Hope in Cambodia.  Mr. Seng's morning remarks will be followed by a panel of human rights workers and human rights survivors. Both he and the panel will discuss "What's Important".   

Mardi Seng is a survivor of the genocide in Cambodia under the Khmer Rouge regime, also known as Pol Pot's regime. Between 1975 and 1979 over 1.5 million people were killed in Cambodia. The regime targeted intellectuals, Buddhist monks and ethnic Laotians and Vietnamese. Seng immigrated to the US in 1980 with his grandmother and his siblings. He graduated from Calvin College in 1991 with a BA in economics and earned an MBA from Northeastern University in 1994. He is currently an auditor and compliance officer for First Marblehead, an educational loan company headquartered in Boston. He is also the Founder and President of Plant Hope In Cambodia, a non-profit that assists locals with farming, clean water access, emergency relief and education in Cambodia.