As a fifth-generation American and aerospace engineer, you may be wondering how my passion for fixing the immigration problem for entrepreneurs developed. Well, after my startup failed in 2011, three interlocking events turned me towards this issue...
If we are to bring about peace and healing for the people who deserve it, we need to change the conversation and understand how we play a very important role in doing so. We need to renegotiate how the refugee “crisis” is discussed in our media and how it plays out in the political arena.
As a former Program Development Director for The Tiyya Foundation, a non-profit in Orange County dedicated to providing basic necessities and educational opportunities to refugees, I know firsthand that the journey for a refugee begins, not ends, with resettlement.
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