A public dialogue on the National Mall facilitated by artist Tiffany Chung with leaders and organizers focusing on the interconnected stories of diverse diasporic refugee and immigrant communities, alongside a mapping workshop to trace participants’ own roots and routes. Event will be held at Constitution Gardens, near Tiffany Chung’s “For the Living” installation.

Featured guest speakers include:

• Arash Azizzada – Afghans For A Better Tomorrow (AFBT)

• Meena Javid – Cultural Organizer and Volunteer on behalf of Afghan refugee family resettlement

• Helal Massomi – Afghan Policy Advisor for Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Services

• Lee Pao Xiong – Founding Director of the Center for Hmong Studies and Professor of Hmong Studies and American Government/Political Science at Concordia University

• Valerie Plesch – Independent first-generation American-Vietnamese-Argentine photojournalist, documentary photographer, and writer

• Maryam Yousufi, Journalist and former Voice of America (VOA) in Afghanistan

Event is open to the public, advanced registration is encouraged to receive updates. Additional information for participants will be made available closer to the date.

Please be advised that filming and photography will be occurring at this event site, and that the resulting assets may be used for archival or promotional purposes. Should you wish not to be photographed or recorded, please notify one of the event organizers.