About this Event
Hear from the leaders of the Initiative on their process of designing a proposed national cohort program and new immigration pathway for refugee students to study and achieve safety in the U.S.
About the panelists:
Dr. Miriam Feldblum is the co-founder and executive director of the Presidents’ Alliance on Higher Education and Immigration. Miriam has over 25 years of experience in higher education administration, student support, and in teaching and research of immigration policy, politics and higher education. She previously served as vice president for student affairs/dean of students and professor of politics at Pomona College, as special assistant to the president at Caltech and senior director for academic support and planning, and is a non-resident fellow at the Migration Policy Institute.
Dr. Kyle Farmbry is the incoming President of Guilford College, a professor in the School of Public Affairs and Administration (SPAA) at Rutgers University–Newark, and Director of University Alliance for Refugees and at-Risk Migrants. Dr. Farmbry’s current research interests are in the areas of inter-sectoral dynamics, private and independent sector entrepreneurial development, the roles of the public, private, and nonprofit sectors in facilitating minority enterprise development, and the role of community voice in public administration. Three-time George Washington University alumnus, Dr. Farmbry has also received the Fulbright New Century Scholarship and William Diaz Research Fellowship from the Nonprofit Academic Centers Council for his research on the formation of nongovernmental networks to address the South African HIV/AIDS Crisis.
Rosie Hughes is a Refugee Education Pathways Expert at the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR)’s office in Washington, DC. She has worked for humanitarian aid organizations, including UNHCR, in multiple countries across Asia and Africa and as a journalist in France and her home state of Maine. More recently, she taught writing and storytelling to refugee students in the U.S. and received a Master’s degree from the Harvard Graduate School of Education.
Laura Wagner is the Project Manager for the Initiative on U.S. Education Pathways for Refugee Students. Most recently, Laura was the Senior Program Officer for Integration at Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service (LIRS) where she worked with a national network of refugee resettlement agencies to develop innovative and client-centered programs for refugee integration. Laura’s expertise includes refugee resettlement, education, and integration, program development, and project and grants management. Laura graduated from Bucknell University and earned her master’s in International Education Development from Teachers’ College, Columbia University.
Diing Manyang is a senior at the George Washington University majoring in Systems Engineering. She is the co-founder of Elimisha Kakuma, an organization that aims to intensively prepare refugee students graduates from high school in Kakuma Refugee Camp and compete for international scholarships in the US.
About the moderator:
Olivia Issa is a senior at The George Washington University studying political science and Arabic. Olivia is the President of No Lost Generation GWU (NLG GWU), a student-led refugee-advocacy group on GWU's campus, member of the Student Voices for Refugees Steering Committee, and this past summer, served as Program Infrastructure Co-Chair for the U.S. Initiative on Education Pathways. For the past six years, Olivia has been engaged with refugee-advocacy and resettlement work in Chicago and Washington D.C., volunteering and interning with resettlement agencies and refugee aid providers throughout both cities.
This event is sponsored by , Elliott School of International Affairs Alumni Relations Office, Refugee Educational Attainment Laboratory, and .
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Jack Morton Auditorium, 805 21st Street Northwest, Washington, United States
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