“Call Her by Her Name“ A piece written by Julie Jordan Scott. Julie is one of KWESI’s dedicated volunteers and has shared with us an experience she and Sharon, an immigrant from Cameroon, endured traveling through the LAX airport. The first time I was…
Rebecca was living in Chiapas, Mexico and working for the local government. However, when the 2016 elections started Rebecca, like other government employees were ousted by an emerging corrupt political party. Rebecca was harassed and threatened regularly in public. Rebecca…
Rachael is a Nigerian asylum seeker who fled her home to escape death because she refused forced marriage. Rachael was raised by her grandparents and when her grandmother died her grandfather arranged her to be married to an 80-year old…
Kwesi, a Ghanaian asylum-seeker fled Ghana escaping religious persecution. However, upon arriving to the US border he was held in indefinite detention for almost two-years. Kwesi, a devoted Christian refused to become the next voodoo priest of his village in…
