Her official title is Neak Ang Machas Ksatrei (Khmer: អ្នកអង្គម្ចាស់ក្សត្រី), with the English language style of "Highness", elevated on May 21, 2011 from "her excellency, Brhat Varman".

Subsequently, he was stationed as the Military Liaison Officer to the USAF at Udorn in Thailand until the 1975 fall of Phnom Penh when he fled with his family to the United States.

After graduating from Chaffey High School in Ontario, Soma attended Fresno State earning a bachelor's degree in telecommunications in 1993 with an emphasis in news and public affairs.

Through this program, which became the highest-rated radio show in six provinces, including the capital, she interviewed close to 200 business and government officials, educators and entertainment personalities.

She began volunteering for activist events and NGOs including International Day of the Girl, and the Happy Tree Orphanage, which cares for children with HIV.

[3] In 2012, disheartened by both the poverty of the average Cambodian and the extent of corruption in Cambodia's government and media, Soma became a columnist for a national newspaper, the Phnom Penh Post.

[3] Refusing to take government bribes to write favorable pieces, Soma wrote columns aimed at exposing weaknesses in Cambodian society, including corruption and the shortcomings of the royal family.