Kalyanee Mam

In Stockton, Mam's father worked as a caseworker assisting South East Asian refugee youth within the juvenile justice system.

[4] After graduating from Yale, Mam received a Charles P. Howland Fellowship to conduct research on "Crimes Committed Against Women During the Khmer Rouge Regime".

During law school, Mam worked with International Bridges to Justice at the National Legal Aid Center in Beijing, China, the Refugee Law Clinic at the University of Witswatersand in Johannesburg, South Africa, and the Asian Pacific American Legal Center, where she assisted immigrant victims of domestic violence file for permanent residence status in the United States under the Violence Against Women Act.

However, Kalyanee Mam is best known for directing and producing award-winning documentary A River Changes Course, which explores the damage rapid development has wrought in her native Cambodia on both a human and environmental level.

She noticed a dramatic change in the country's landscape – many of the forests she had traveled to before had been cut down and replaced with rubber plantations, huge lakes in Phnom Penh were dredged and filled with sand to accommodate condominiums and business infrastructure projects, and hundreds of garment factories sprouted outside the city where once were rice fields and towering palm trees.

Mam is also known for her work with director Charles Ferguson as Cinematographer, Associate Producer, and Researcher for 2011 Academy Award-winning documentary Inside Job, a Sony Pictures Classics release about the 2007–2008 financial crisis, hailed as a "masterpiece of investigative non-fiction moviemaking" and which premiered at the 2010 Cannes Film Festival.