 She was first drawn to the subject upon reading of the psychosomatic blindness suffered by a group of Cambodian women after witnessing the massacres of the Khmer Rouge, a story that formed the basis of her 2004 play "Eyes of the Heart".She worked with survivors of the Cambodian genocide, developing the oral history project "A Circle of Grace" with the Cambodian Women's Group at St. Rita's Centre for Immigration and Refugee Services in the Bronx, New York.Her 2005 play "Lemkin's House" is based on the life of Raphael Lemkin, the Polish Jew and American immigrant lawyer who invented the word genocide in 1944 and spent his life striving to have it recognized as an international crime.