Suely Saro took the oath of office Tuesday, becoming the first Cambodian American to join the Long Beach City Council and one of only a few from the diaspora to reach elected office anywhere in the country.
Saro is a veteran community advocate who once worked for Democratic former State Senator Ricardo Lara. She is a 1.5-generation immigrant who arrived as a child from Cambodia, allowing her to bridge the gap between her parents cohort and the Cambodian Americans born here.
During her swearing-in ceremony, she brought up her parents, who fled genocide for the safety of a Thailand refugee camp where Saro was born and lived before the family moved to Southern California in the early 1990s.
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As the primary English communicator of her Cambodian American family, Suely Saro became accustomed to speaking up at a young age.
First, it was the kindergarten lunch tickets she had to request for her and her brother. In elementary school she was placed in the English learners class and had to petition to be moved out of it. A few years later she spoke up to argue her way into the honors classes that she needed for college.
Soon she was preparing income assistance applications and other official documents for her parents, other family members, and even the friends of family members. She learned that there were people whom government reached, and those it did not.