What Are Promising Practices for Supporting Newcomers to the United States?
Sep 21, 2019 ·
55m 3s
Join the Awakening Educator as we interview Lauren Markam, New York times best-selling author of The Far Away Brothers: Two Young Migrants and the Making of an American Life. Lauren...
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Join the Awakening Educator as we interview Lauren Markam, New York times best-selling author of The Far Away Brothers: Two Young Migrants and the Making of an American Life. Lauren is also the Community Schools Manager at Oakland International Highschool, an Oakland Public School serving newcomer students from around the world.
Lauren Markham is a writer and reporter based in Berkeley, California, and the author of The Far Away Brothers, a chronicle of unaccompanied minor migrants from El Salvador to the United States. Drawing on her expertise, Markham speaks about global refugee issues, Central American child migration in the U.S., environmental issues, and urban education and education policy.
Having spent over a decade working with refugees and immigrants in nonprofits and schools, Lauren began reporting on unaccompanied minors from Central America in 2013. She continued reporting on this issue while supporting access to legal counsel, social services support, and mental healthcare for an influx of hundreds of unaccompanied minors at the school where she was working in Oakland, California, many of whom were fleeing the region’s brutal violence. She began working on The Far Away Brothers to examine the root causes of this mass youth migration—to understand why all of these children were suddenly, alone and under extremely dangerous conditions, making their way from Central America to the United States. In 2019, she published a version of The Far Away Brothersadapted for young adults.
An expert in migration, an educator, and an accomplished journalist, Lauren’s work has appeared or is forthcoming in outlets such as The Guardian, Harper’s, Orion, Guernica, VICE, Pacific Standard, The New Yorker.com and VQR, where she is a contributing editor.
She is a graduate of the Vermont College of Fine Arts’ MFA in writing program and has been awarded fellowships from the Mesa Refuge, the UC Berkeley 11th Hour Food & Farming Journalism Fellowship, The French American Foundation, The Rotary Foundation, and the Middlebury Fellowship in Environmental Journalism.
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Lauren Markham is a writer and reporter based in Berkeley, California, and the author of The Far Away Brothers, a chronicle of unaccompanied minor migrants from El Salvador to the United States. Drawing on her expertise, Markham speaks about global refugee issues, Central American child migration in the U.S., environmental issues, and urban education and education policy.
Having spent over a decade working with refugees and immigrants in nonprofits and schools, Lauren began reporting on unaccompanied minors from Central America in 2013. She continued reporting on this issue while supporting access to legal counsel, social services support, and mental healthcare for an influx of hundreds of unaccompanied minors at the school where she was working in Oakland, California, many of whom were fleeing the region’s brutal violence. She began working on The Far Away Brothers to examine the root causes of this mass youth migration—to understand why all of these children were suddenly, alone and under extremely dangerous conditions, making their way from Central America to the United States. In 2019, she published a version of The Far Away Brothersadapted for young adults.
An expert in migration, an educator, and an accomplished journalist, Lauren’s work has appeared or is forthcoming in outlets such as The Guardian, Harper’s, Orion, Guernica, VICE, Pacific Standard, The New Yorker.com and VQR, where she is a contributing editor.
She is a graduate of the Vermont College of Fine Arts’ MFA in writing program and has been awarded fellowships from the Mesa Refuge, the UC Berkeley 11th Hour Food & Farming Journalism Fellowship, The French American Foundation, The Rotary Foundation, and the Middlebury Fellowship in Environmental Journalism.
This show is brought to you by Your 3 Eyes:
https://www.your3eyes.com/join-the-movement.html
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