Montagnard Research Network members describe their community-based focus and highlight key issues and challenges they have addressed during COVID through the present.
Speakers: Sharon Morrison, Sara Colm, Sudha Shreeniwas, and Melina Ksor.

We are an independent network of researchers, advocates, and community members dedicated to scholarship that involves and responds to community needs. We are housed at the Montagnard Association of NC (MDA), one of the oldest community-based organizations of refugee origin in North Carolina. Our network continues to grow as we connect to other refugee communities and note similar stories, historical struggles, and local and transnational challenges that have often remained invisible and unexamined.

For more information, visit the Montagnard Association’s website at: https://www.montagnardda.org/.
To learn more about the Montagnard / Asian Community Research Network: https://www.montagnardda.org/research...

Speakers:
Sharon Morrison MSPH, PhD, co-chair of the Research Network, is a community-engaged researcher using community-based participatory research (CBPR) approaches with marginalized and vulnerable populations. She collaborates on implementing culturally responsive public health education outreach projects with tribal language communities. She is a non-voting member of the Community Advisory Council.

Sudha Shreeniwas PhD is a professor in the Department of Human Development and Family Studies at UNC Greensboro. She is an immigrant from Asia. She has worked with diverse immigrant and refugee communities in the state, on topics relating to family and health, for over 15 years.

Melina Ksor, MSPHS, CHES is Chair of Montagnard Association’s Community Advisory Council and Clinical Research Coordinator at Duke University School of Medicine.

Sara Colm, co-chair of the Montagnard /Asian Research Network, is a researcher, historian, community organizer, and specialist on human rights and indigenous peoples in Cambodia and Vietnam who has been working with Southeast Asian communities in Asia and the US since the 1980s.