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How Immigrant and Diaspora Communities Aid International Disaster Response
Founder’s Hall
Thursday, November 12th
10 AM – 12 PM
Room 113
3351 Fairfax Dr. Arlington, VA 22201
Breakfast served starting at 9 AM, Panel Starts at 10:30 AM
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Speakers
Dr. Witte, Director of the Center for Social Science Research (CSSR) and Research Director for the Institute for Immigration Research (IIR)
Alexis Bonnell, Director of the Office of Engagement and Communications in the U.S. Global Development Lab (The Lab)
Dr. Patricia Maloof, Program Director, Migration & Refugee Services, Catholic Charities
Dilafruz Khonikboyeva, Deputy Director, USAID Center for International Disaster Information, S-CAR Alumna
TBD, USAID Office of U.S. Foreign Disaster Assistance
Moderator
Safiya Khalid, USAID CIDI
Please join us for a networking breakfast and panel discussion aimed at understanding the contribution of U.S. immigrants, especially diaspora entrepreneurs, in helping US institutions succeed in their missions abroad, particularly in times of disaster.
Summary:
Immigrant communities in the U.S. are key to creating a networks of social and cultural understandings to help U.S. institutions provide relief in disaster torn regions of the world. The entrepreneurial skills that U.S. immigrants have is an of extreme benefit to the USAID mission and allows for more direct appropriate services and better placed resources to truly help in a reasonable way.
The Institute for Immigration Research (IIR), in collaboration with the U.S. Agency for International Development Center for International Disaster Information (CIDI), will hold a panel discussion aimed at understanding the contribution of U.S. immigrants, especially immigrant entrepreneurs (through networks, cultural understanding, etc.) in helping US institutions succeed in their missions abroad.