Social Change Panel Discussion with IVLP Alumni

Social Change Panel Discussion with IVLP Alumni

Join us on Monday, October 12th at 10am EST for a panel discussion on creating social change. This discussion featuring IVLP alumni will be focused on their own efforts to create social change in their respective countries. These alumni will share their insights and perspectives on best practices around using protest to create lasting social change that is reflected in both changing public attitudes and influencing of public policy. This panel discussion features Ms. Tina Arend Morad, Founder and Director of Refugees Welcome Stockholm, and Mr. Khalid Hussain, Chief Executive of the Council of Minorities, and is moderated by Ms. Theo Spanos Dunfey, Executive Director of Global Citizen Circle.

When: Monday, October 12 from 10:00 am – 11:30 am EDT;

3:00 pm – 4:30 pm GMT

Where: Live at wacnh.org

About Tina Arend Morad

In response to Sweden’s unprecedented flow of refugees and asylum seekers in 2015, Ms. Tina Arend Morad founded Refugees Welcome Stockholm, which meets the immediate needs of refugees and is reshaping the way civil society organizations work with the Swedish government. She has been a voice for tolerance and diversity in Swedish discourse on refugee issues and was awarded the Raoul Wallenberg Prize in 2016.

About Khalid Hussain

Mr. Khalid Hussain is a human rights attorney and minority rights activist. He belongs to the Bihari-Urdu linguistic minority, a formerly stateless community in Bangladesh. The Bangladeshi court system positively responded to a writ of petition submitted by Mr. Hussain and fellow activists in 2003, ending the Bihari status of statelessness and making the Bihari citizens of Bangladesh. After this, Mr. Hussain began implementing a project in conjunction with the U.S.-based social enterprise Namati (Innovations in Legal Empowerment) to provide legal advice and advocacy and human and civil rights awareness training to the Bihari-Urdu language community in Bangladesh.