Most recently Sok served as the Deputy Director of the UI Center
for Human Rights (UICHR) and Project Director of the $1.2 million
Child Labor Research Initiative (CLRI) at the University of Iowa.
She was responsible for all CLRI project implementation and
reporting to the U.S. Department of Labor. The CLRI was a
three-year multi-faceted project that resulted in (1) construction
of an internet database of national legislation related to child
labor of 31 countries; (2) publication of an essay collection edited by Professor Burns Weston, an internationally renowned
scholar of human rights; (3) development of a series of public
education curricula on child labor; (4) course development and
teaching of child labor for college students, and (5) workshops and
training on child labor for K-12 teachers. Through her work, Sok
also engaged local Iowa City youth activists to get involved in
child labor issues. Sok continues to do consulting work for the
UICHR.

Sok also co-taught a research seminar, “International Human Rights and Child Labor” (also with Professor Weston at the UI College of Law and an undergraduate course on child labor with Professor Rex Honey, UI Professor of Geography.

The Iowa City Human Rights Commission awarded Sok the International Human Rights Award for Outstanding Contributions to the Worldwide Community and the Council on International Visitors awarded herewith the “Citizen of the Year” in 2004.

Sok joined the UICHR after five years of working at Columbia
University's Center for the Study of Human Rights where she was the program coordinator and later program director. Prior to joining
the UICHR, she worked as a consultant to the Cambodian Association of Illinois that raised funds to build the first Killing Fields Memorial and Museum in the United States.

Sok earned a B.A. in Political Science from the University of
California at Santa Barbara and a Master of International Affairs
(MIA) degree from Columbia University School of International and Public Affairs with a special concentration in East Asia and human rights.