Ame Khin, a graduate research associate at the York Centre for Asian Research, describes her interdisciplinary research on forced displacement among women from Myanmar resettled in Canada, drawing on intersectionality theory and qualitative feminist methods to examine how care work, cultural memory, and agency shape integration, family dynamics, and belonging across generations. Connected personally to the Myanmar DPO, she combines scholarship with community-based advocacy supporting humanitarian aid, fundraising, and awareness-raising in response to the ongoing crisis following the 2021 military coup. Her PhD dissertation project conducted interviews with two cohorts —Karen refugee women who arrived as adult mothers and those who arrived as children or teenagers, including people born and raised in refugee camps with limited formal education—to show how settlement experiences differ: older arrivals often define success through children’s outcomes and family stability, while younger arrivals emphasize education, independence, and belonging. Khin explains how long-standing histories of conflict and displacement continue to affect life after resettlement, while also building resilience and strong cultural networks. She also outlines post-coup diaspora mobilization in Canada through fundraising, protests and public campaigns, advocacy such as an open letter to the Prime Minister, and transnational digital coordination, highlighting women’s central roles through both visible leadership and everyday organizing. She also details challenges to sustaining resistance, including ongoing security risks and digital surveillance concerns, threats to relatives in Myanmar, emotional strain, time constraints from work and caregiving, burnout over time, and internal community dynamics. As an insider researcher, she emphasizes confidentiality and ethics by using limited location details, anonymizing participants, and avoiding the identification of organizations to reduce political risk. She concludes by telling younger Myanmar DPO members that there is no single way to contribute, that every role matters, and that change comes from consistent, collective effort across generations.