PRI’s THE WORLD tells this remarkable story of South Sudanese runner Guor Marial who is now a resident of the U.S.: “South Sudanese Runner Wants to Compete in London but not for Sudan.” And he will! Under an independent Olympics banner. Marial went to high school in our own […]
…hosted a conversation about welcoming immigrants. WSCA’s Radio Gazette invited Dr. Susan Craig, an educator, and me, a writer. We had both worked in Portland, Maine. Susan directed a program to train educators to work with students from all over the world, and I taught at the Salt […]
In his New York Times column, “From South Sudan to Yale” Nicholas D. Kristof tells us the journey of Paul Lorem . His journey to Yale began in a remote South Sudanese village, on to Kakuma refugee camp, to school in Kenya, to South Africa. He’s 21 years […]