Charissa Tansomboon is an Thai

Thai people

The Thai people, or Siamese, are the main ethnic group of Thailand and are part of the larger Tai ethnolinguistic peoples found in Thailand and adjacent countries in Southeast Asia as well as southern China. Their language is the Thai language, which is classified as part of the Kradai family of...

-American

United States

The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

 figure skater who currently competes internationally for Thailand

Thailand

Thailand , officially the Kingdom of Thailand , formerly known as Siam , is a country located at the centre of the Indochina peninsula and Southeast Asia. It is bordered to the north by Burma and Laos, to the east by Laos and Cambodia, to the south by the Gulf of Thailand and Malaysia, and to the...

. Her parents moved to the U.S. from Thailand just before she was born. She is the 2005 Thai national silver medalist and is a two season competitor on the Junior Grand Prix circuit. She currently attends Stanford University

Stanford University

The Leland Stanford Junior University, commonly referred to as Stanford University or Stanford, is a private research university on an campus located near Palo Alto, California. It is situated in the northwestern Santa Clara Valley on the San Francisco Peninsula, approximately northwest of San...

, where she is working towards her master's degree in Human Biology.

External links

• http://www.skatetoday.com/2008/08/23/thai-high/