Alexandre’s story of navigating financial hardship during his studies highlights how one of the world’s elite institutions is unprepared to support underprivileged students. Alexandre’s first day walking dogs in the summer of 2024, taken by the friend that referred him…
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After the Sky Fell: Two Afghan Women’s Remarkable Journeys, and the Men Who Champion Them.
Parween and Fahima’s lives changed when they left Afghanistan. Now they fight for gender equality. The men in their lives fight for them too. “I always dreamed of living abroad, meeting new people, learning different languages. My dream came true,…
The Day Democracy Stood Still: One Israeli Woman’s Fight Against Netanyahu’s “Judicial Coup”
Eden Cohen, an Israeli graduate student at Columbia University, participated in one of the large protests during the Israeli “Judicial Coup” of 2023. Eden, on the far left, and her friends, wearing hats that say “democracy” on the day of…
Do Not Cross This Line
Humanitarian Work under Gang Control in Haiti By Christine McNeill The truck pulled away through a throng of unknown faces. Faces of people who happened to live on the wrong side of an invisible line, recalled Pete Staffelbach. He could…
The Things We Don’t Carry: Samia Halaby’s Memories from Palestine
A Glimpse of the Life and Relocation of Palestinian Artist Samia Halaby Samia’s old Family Home in Jerusalem (taken 2017) By Sidney Kuri Poor In the Spring of 1948, Samia Halaby’s family fled their home. At age 11, Samia was…
The Invisible Front
Russian Exiles Who Crossed Lines to Aid Ukraine Roman (right) flew with 26 duffel bags of aid for Ukrainian troops By Mariel Povolny The Organizer It was February 27, 2022— three days after Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine. The Organizer…
Heavy Lifting from Kampala’s Streets to U.S. Citizenship
A young immigrant’s success story after being orphaned at age five, and how he found faith through his experiences. Anthony’s professional headshot, provided by the NACC By Katie Ryan Anthony Mugagga started running drugs for prostitutes in Kampala at the…
Pens of Longwood: How a Rohingya Poet is Helping his Community Rediscover Their Voices
Amidst violence and strife, Ali Mayyu found refuge and resistance in his writing. Now, he is passing it on, teaching Rohingya youth that their voices matter A mural made by Rohingya through the Rohingya Memorialization Project. Each sub-image is an…
A Stateless Odyssey From Peshwar to New York
Reshad Sharif has battled impersonal bureaucracies and Taliban soldiers across the world in his struggle to carve out a home. By Juhi Srivastava In the summer of 2011, Reshad Sharif found himself sitting on the steps in front of the…
Sweden: no longer a place of refuge
The Swedish Migration Agency knowingly maintains a culture of abuse in its detention centers. By Maria Thornton Many migrants and asylum seekers dream of safety in Sweden but many find themselves trapped in nightmarish conditions instead. The Swedish Migration Agency,…