Guilford College recently issued the following announcement.
WHEN:
Tuesday, March 1, 2022
12:00pm – 1:00pm
WHERE:
5800 West Friendly Avenue, Greensboro, NC 27410, US
Gilmer Room, Founders Hall
Hourie Tafech, a Palestinian and refugee, and now a doctoral student at Rutgers University, will present on the ways education can aid refugees and their lives.
Hourie is a third-generation Palestinian refugee from Lebanon. In 2017 she was awarded a fellowship to study Ph.D. in Global Affairs at Rutgers University Newark. Hourie’s dissertation examines the factors that impact the entrepreneurial activities of refugees in U.S. cities. Before arriving in the US, Hourie was raised in a refugee camp in Lebanon where she earned her bachelor’s degree in graphic design from the Lebanese International University. Then she moved to Malta for few years, where she co-founded Spark15, the first refugee-led organization recognized by the United Nations Higher Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR).
In 2020, Hourie was one of six women from the U.S. and Canada awarded a prestigious Margaret McNamara Education Grant (MMEG). In 2021, she was also awarded an international fellowship from AAUW. Since arriving in the U.S., she assisted in developing and implementing the University Alliance for Refugees and At-Risk Migrants (UARRM) initiative and its students division” Student Voices for refugees.
Original source can be found here.
