SEAD Center in the News
Spotlight Story: Ron Sim and Family
In 1985, Ron Sim escaped Cambodia’s genocide under the Khmer Rouge regime, where over a million Cambodians were killed and tortured between 1975-1979. Ron escaped the country for a chance to survive and resettled in San Francisco, CA.
[Press] Unseen and Unheard: COVID-19’s impact on San Francisco Southeast Asians and Asian Americans
Judy Young, executive director of Southeast Asian Development Center in San Francisco, speaks out about two attacks in recent weeks of elderly Asian women in the Tenderloin District.
[Press] San Francisco Leaders Condemn Attacks on Asian Women in Tenderloin District
Judy Young, executive director of Southeast Asian Development Center in San Francisco, speaks out about two attacks in recent weeks of elderly Asian women in the Tenderloin District.
Vietnamese Youth Development Center is Rebranding to Southeast Asian Development Center
After years of extensive conversations with board and staff, we’re excited to announce our rebrand from Vietnamese Youth Development Center to Southeast Asian Development Center. Our work remains the same, committed to eliminating social, economic and education inequalities affecting Southeast Asian Americans.
[Press] Film Screening: ‘Enforcing the Silence’
Tony Nguyen’s documentary “Enforcing the Silence” chronicles the life and violent death of a young community organizer. Lam Trong Duong was 23 when he founded The Vietnamese Youth Development Center in the Tenderloin district in 1978.
[Press] Nutrition Revolution Gaining Traction In The Tenderloin
The Tenderloin is slowly embracing a healthier marketplace—the corner stores where residents shop for snacks and many for meals.
[Press] Harsh Life Comes to Life on Video
Sokly Ny was a troubled Cambodian American teenager trying to survive in the projects and flunking out of high school when filmmaker Spencer Nakasako gave him a camcorder. “Shoot your senior year in high school,” Nakasako told Sokly.
[Press] Terror in LIttle Saigon
The journalists were assassinated on American soil, one after another. Duong Trong Lam was the first. He was 27 years old and ran a Vietnamese-language publication called Cai Dinh Lang, which he mailed to immigrants around the country. A gunman found him as he walked out of his San Francisco apartment building one morning and shot him, a single bullet piercing his pulmonary artery, just above the heart.
[Press] S.F. Teen’s Video Diary on `P.O.V.’ / From Cambodia jungle to `a.k.a. Don Bonus’
In 1979, when he was 5, Sokly Ny escaped on foot through the Cambodian jungle with his mother, grandmother and six siblings. It was the era of the deadly Khmer Rouge, and Ny’s father, who had stayed behind for his family’s safety, was later killed by Pol Pot’s army.