Kanitha Heng Snow

Kanitha Heng Snow is a writer, social impact leader, and first-time filmmaker whose work explores war, displacement, and their lasting effects on individuals and communities. Committed to supporting refugees and immigrants in building a sense of wealth, worth, and well-being, she serves as the Executive Director of the Colgate Writers Conference and is actively involved in nonprofit leadership. She sits on the boards of The Village Institute (Aurora, CO), which empowers refugee and immigrant mothers and youth, and the Colorado Asian Culture and Education Network (Denver, CO), which advocates for AANHPI communities through cultural exchange and education.

She received her MFA in Creative Nonfiction from Columbia University in 2012 and has since been crafting her memoir, I Am My Mother’s Mother: A Story of Birth, Death, and Reincarnation, exploring intergenerational trauma, memory, and motherhood across Cambodia and America. This memoir also inspired her directorial debut, Kamnop, a documentary that expands her artistic vision into film.