Ei Mon Soe (Ei Mon) is Rakhine, one of the ethnic minority groups in Myanmar. She is currently based in Chiang Mai, Thailand. She decided to drop out of university as a form of civil disobedience after the 2021 coup, with a strong will to pursue her education in a democratic country and not under military rule. She was actively involved in anti-coup, pro-democracy protest against the military junta in 2021. She is currently a data science junior student at Parami University (Myanmar) while working as a teaching assistant at Spring University Myanmar (SUM), which was established after the coup to support interim education youths.