Emily Hipps will discuss displaced persons who flee to Minnesota 2 p.m. Nov. 1 in the Atwood Memorial Center theater.
Hipps is the development and communications coordinator for International Institute of Minnesota, a nonprofit, refugee-resettlement agency in St. Paul.
Her presentation is free and open to the public. Parking is $1.50 an hour in the 4th Avenue Parking Ramp.
In 2015, the Institute resettled 465 refugees from 13 nations of origin: Afghanistan, Bhutan, Burma, Congo-Brazzaville, Democratic Republic of Congo, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Iran, Iraq, Liberia, Somalia, Sri Lanka and Vietnam.
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The Institute’s definition of a refugee: A person who has fled his or her home nation, and who cannot return due to a well-founded fear of persecution because of race, religion, nationality, political opinion, or membership in a particular social group.
Institute programming includes job training, language classes, refugee resettlement, and immigration, citizenship and anti-trafficking services.
Hipps previously worked as a Fulbright Fellow in central Turkey and served as an AmeriCorps VISTA workers at the Institute. She holds a bachelor’s degree in English from Coe College, Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
Her remarks are sponsored by the Faculty Research Group on Immigrant Workers, the School of Public Affairs and the College of Liberal Arts.
For more information, email [email protected].
