Biography

Chantra Nhien was born and raised in Long Beach, California. Chantra is currently a Ph.D. student in the Higher Education & Organizational Change program within the Graduate School of Education & Information Studies. His research focuses on the experiences of first-year STEM students, with a special interest in underrepresented students within STEM. His motivation and resilience stems from the hardships that his parents endured as they escaped the war in Cambodia in the early 1980s and hopes to contribute to improving the equitable experiences of college students and, by extension, improve systems of higher education through his research.