Clinton Reiswig is a community development specialist with experience in program and policy development and evaluation. Clinton engages diverse communities to address disparities through community-led initiatives. Clinton has worked with refugees across 3 continents in 4 different countries. He received a Boren Fellowship to study Arabic and developed refugee programs in Jordan. Clinton wants to work to improve humanitarian delivery systems, and change policies to improve care to displaced individuals globally.
As she watched the global refugee crisis unfold during her freshman year at ASU, Brenley felt compelled to take action working with the refugee community in Phoenix. Interning at Refugee Focus gave her a first glimpse at the multidimensional challenges refugees face resettling in the United States--a situation which she resolved to combat. Over two years later, Brenley is the Executive Director of R.I.S.E., an ASU-based tutoring and mentorship organization for refugee youth, of which she has been a part since 2016.
Hayley is a Social Justice and Human Rights MA candidate at Arizona State New College. She is interested in refugee resettlement programs and services and is currently interning with the refugee programs of Lutheran Social Services of the South West (LSS-SW). There, she is working with the Women’s Empowerment Program (WEP) to develop and implement a computer class curriculum designed to help meet individual needs of clients utilizing WEP services.
Aditya hails from Visakhapatnam in South India and is currently pursuing his graduate studies in Aerospace Engineering at Arizona State University. Outside the realm of the engineering, Aditya has always had an interest in actively engaging in welfare and social work. Aditya has diverse experience with social work, working as an online educator for the United Nations Organizations initiative ‘eVidyaloka’, tutoring English and Math to middle school children in rural India.
Abbey Colorafi is a current senior at Arizona State University, Tempe Campus studying biomedical sciences. She is the Director of Outreach of Hands for Henna and is conducting her thesis regarding women refugees’ access to healthcare in Arizona alongside Nisha Rehman with Dr. Barbara Klimek and Dr. Alison Essary. She plans to attend medical school.
Nisha Rehman is currently a senior at ASU, Barrett the Honors College. She is majoring in Biomedical Sciences. Nisha also created a nonprofit foundation named in Hands for Henna which seeks to empower refugee girls. We work towards our mission in three different ways. Firstly, we raise awareness about the refugee crisis and the importance of education for refugee girls by interviewing refugee girls about their experiences coming to the United States and why education is important to them. We publish the interview articles on our website.