November 8th online event
TEDxUMBC 2020 will feature 10 speakers from the UMBC community speaking on the theme, Unmasking Uncertainty. The online event is from 1:00 to 4:00pm on Sunday, November 8, 2020.
Zareen Taj (she/her/hers) is a PhD
student at UMBC in the Language, Literacy and Culture program, and a
full-time employee with the Shriver Center at UMBC. She is an activist
for women’s rights and human rights, and an advocate for immigrant
communities. She has worked continuously to promote women’s rights and
immigrant’s rights and has attended numerous conferences, given speeches
and mentored refugees in the U.S. She has played a major role in
establishing connections between refugees and service providers. She has
eighteen years of experience mentoring and assisting refugees in
Maryland. She was the first Afghan woman who visited five massacre sites
and interviewed the survivors of the Taliban Massacre and produced a
video documentary about her journey. She also made a trip to Afghanistan
to research about the empowerment of Afghan women. She is the author of
a book called Journey to Empowerment: Women After Taliban, and the
author of numerous opinion articles about Afghanistan.
For more information, please see the original post: https://my3.my.umbc.edu/groups/tedx/events/88111
Posted: November 2, 2020, 9:56 PM