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Willa Schneberg

Willa Schneberg worked for the United Nations Transitional Authority in Cambodia (1992- 1993) first as a District Electoral Supervisor overseeing two polling sites in Phnom Penh for that nation’s first “free and fair” elections since the French colonial period, and later as a Medical Liaison Officer supporting the health needs of the Mission’s volunteers. She helicoptered with other medical professionals to remote clinics. Currently, Willa is a psychotherapist, poet, and ceramic sculptor in Portland, Oregon.

Willa Schneberg in Kosmos

Three Poems


She believes because I am Jewish
I must understand
what she went through after Cambodia
was ground down to zero on April 17, 1975...


Published in Volume 18 Issue 3

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