Thea is a Social Work Intern for the Legal-Social Work Collaborative. Thea is currently a Master’s candidate at UC Berkeley’s Social of Social Welfare. She was born in Cambodia shortly after the fall of the Khmer Rouge regime, arrived to the States as a refugee, and grew up in the Central Valley. As a long-time advocate working with communities of color, her expansive experience includes working as a case manager at Community Health for Asian Americans, law clerk at the East Bay Community Law Center and with the United Nations Assistance to the Khmer Rouge Trials, a Peace Corps volunteer, and advocate at the Homeless Action Center. Thea joins the Legal-Social Work Collaborative at MLC as part of her field education; she is primarily working with the Youth & Education Law Project and Immigrants’ Rights Clinic.