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Email
Contact
Seldon Young · Founder
Phone
+66 (0)76 555 0100
Timezone
ICT · UTC+7
Languages
English · Thai
In the press.
Bangkok Post
"Hollywood animator's second act in a fishing village on the Andaman."
March 2025
The Nation
"Swan Princess Band: how music is rebuilding Ban Nam Khem."
November 2024
NPR · All Things Considered
"Teaching English with laughter on the Andaman coast."
August 2024
Monocle
"Small school, big story: a village's second chapter."
June 2024
Khaosod English
"Twenty years after the tsunami, a teacher who stayed."
December 2024
Citizen Femme
"Interning in Thailand: what a real one looks like."
February 2025
Boilerplate · drop into any article
"Waves of Words is a Thai-registered nonprofit founded by former Hollywood animation executive Seldon Young. Based in the fishing village of Ban Nam Khem on the Andaman coast, the foundation runs an after-school English program, the Swan Princess Band, a trilingual open library, and a hands-on internship for young designers and educators from around the world."