Kam Lou Lopez (3rd from right) with fellow graduates from the National Women of Color Leadership Foundation, San Diego, CA 2015. Kam was selected to represent the Center for Pacific Asian Family. The award paid for 1.5 years of classes where she learned grant writing, self knowledge, and how to better help the underserved. At the completion of the course, awardees worked in a culturally competent, community-serving program.
Kam Lou Lopez (front row, 2nd from right), was a 2008 recipient of the Sunshine Peace Award, funded by the Buffet family of Wilmington, North Carolina. Kam was among twenty awardees selected from 150 nominations. The award seeks to honor recipients for their work to bring hope, healing and safety to survivors of Domestic Violence. The foundation brings recipients to Wilmington, NC to receive their awards.
Kam Lou Lopez’s graduation from California State University Los Angeles, 1996, with a B.A. in marketing. From left to right: unidentified friend; sister, Meicy Lou; Kam; and sister-in-law, Lynh Lee.
Kam Lou Lopez with her parents for her graduation from Franklin High School, Los Angeles 1988. From left to right: Kam’s father, Man Lou; her mother, Fang Phar; and Kam.
Kam Lou Lopez’s family in their two bedroom apartment in Marlborough, TN 1984. From left to right: Kam’s cousin, Avery; her uncle, Sy, who sponsored them; her mother, Fang Phar; Uncle Sy’s wife (in back wearing blue blouse), Aung Lucy; Kam’s sister, Meicy Lou; her father (in blue shirt) Man Lou; and cousin (in front far right) Seav.
A picnic outside the Bataan, Philippines processing camp, 1983. The bearded man was Steven (last name not remembered). He worked for Catholic Charities in the U.S. and was teaching Kam’s brother and sister there. Steven came to visit them in the camp in the Philippines.
