Episode 87: Girl Left Behind ft. Judy Temes

EPISODE SHOW NOTES Episode 87: Girl Left Behind featuring Judy Temes On a summer night in 1969, Judy Temes’ mother and a father, both physicians, packed their car for what was supposed to be a family vacation. Only this was no vacation. They were escaping Hungary’s totalitarian regime. The tourist visas that gave them safe […]

Episode 54: Woman Disrupted ft. Sofia Husnain

EPISODE SHOW NOTES Episode 54: Woman Disrupted featuring Sofia Husnain By the time Sofia Husnain moved to America at age 11 she’d already been through more than most children her age. She was born in Pakistan and raised by a single mother in a male-dominant society, and because women were not treated as equals, Sofia’s […]

Episode 23: The Duality of the Gift fo Coming to America ft. Baktash Ahadi

EPISODE SHOW NOTES Episode 23: The Duality of the Gift fo Coming to America When Baktash Ahadi and his family fled Afghanistan in the early 1980’s they were shot at by Soviet Gunships on their way to Pakistan and sheltered at a refugee camp there for years while they awaited approval to emigrate to the […]

Episode 17: The Immigrant Crisis is Not Over ft. Tahmina Watson

EPISODE SHOW NOTES Episode 17:The Immigrant Crisis is Not Over Tahmina Watson could not have predicted she’d become a US immigration lawyer when she began her career as a barrister in the UK, but she soon realized helping people become citizens was her purpose in life. And when the Trump administration released its executive orders […]