New Americans, New Promise: A Guide to the Refugee Journey in America

YORN YAN is a refugee from Cambodia. In 1979, he fled his homeland to the Thai-Cambodian border to avoid persecution and came to the United States in 1993. For the past twenty-four years, Yorn has devoted his life to improving the lives of refugees—first in refugee camps in Thailand and now in America. For eleven years, Yorn was a consultant with Wilder Center for Communities of the Amherst H. Wilder Foundation in Saint Paul, Minnesota. He is currently executive director of United Cambodian Association of Minnesota, a social service agency.Yorn Yan is the author of 'New Americans, New Promise: A Guide to the Refugee Journey in America', published 2006 under ISBN 9780940069503 and ISBN 0940069504.