On Saturday, September 22, more than 300 people gathered at The Grand here in Long Beach as the Long Beach Post, in a partnership with Choura Events, presented its inaugural 30 Women to Watch event, a night designed to honor the many female citizens of this city who are altering the landscape with their own definitions of what it means to be a woman.
In addition to featuring the winners in a special pull-out section in the most recent print edition of the Post, we will be running profiles and photos of each woman, one per day, for the next 30 days.
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After being born in a refugee camp in Thailand and being brought here after her family escaped the Cambodian genocide, Phanith Rama Sovann gained international recognition as Ms. Cambodia 2013. Her appreciation of humanitarian efforts and human rights has led her to be an active worship leader at the Cambodian Harvest Church for ten years.