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Moe Kyaw Tun

Moe Kyaw Tun

In his early teens, Moe Kyaw Tun traversed the jungles of junta-ruled Burma as a messenger in support of the resistance struggle of his ethnic group, the Karen. Moe says his female relatives wanted him to escape the war. “My father had been imprisoned for his involvement in politics. Almost all of the men in ...More

Earliest CJP Students Prize the ‘Lens’ They Acquired

December 30, 2010 – 6:09 pm

Who would come from half-way around the world to enroll in a program at Eastern Mennonite University that was so new, no college catalog listed it? Sam Gbaydee Doe did. From Liberia. Initially, the plump squirrels running around campus dismayed him: They could be food for very hungry people in his war-torn homeland. He himself ...More

Computer systems engineer

December 30, 2010 – 12:44 pm

Moe Kyaw Tun ’95, MA ’97 Ashburn, Virginia In his early teens, Moe Kyaw Tun traversed the jungles of junta-ruled Burma as a messenger in support of the resistance struggle of his ethnic group, the Karen. Moe says his female relatives wanted him to escape the war. “My father had been imprisoned for his involvement ...More

From Self And Community To Systems

December 30, 2010 – 12:18 pm

Mental health worker – Professor – Schoolteacher – Full-time parent – Mediator – Lawyer – PhD student Administrator – Writer – Consultant – Newspaper editor – Hospital staffer – UN official – Computer engineer – Grandmother – Priest The post-EMU paths followed by CJP’s 36 earliest graduates are as diverse as the 10 countries in ...More