In Search of Safety: Stories about migration, displacement, and advocating for refugees and asylum seekers

Description

At a moment when the numbers of people fleeing their countries are at the highest level ever recorded, the Center for Humanitarian Health at the Bloomberg School of Public Health co-sponsors this Stoop Storytelling event that features stories by Baltimore refugees and migrants and the Hopkins students and faculty who work with them. The speakers include:

• Jacob Atem, co-founder and CEO of the Southern Sudan Health Care Organization
• Monica Guerrero Vazquez, executive director of Centro SOL
• Houssam Alnahhas, Sommer Scholar at the Bloomberg School
• Courtland Robinson, deputy director of the Center for Refugee and Disaster Response at the Bloomberg School
• Katherine Narvaez Mena, Sommer Scholar at Bloomberg School
• Lucia Islas, leader of Comite Latino and Angeles de Baltimore (Angels of Baltimore)
• Nancy Glass, professor at the Johns Hopkins School of Nursing