Refugee mental wellness (Syria focus)

Lina Sergie Attar was a visiting fellow with the Muslim Diaspora Initiative at New America and the founder and CEO of Karam Foundation. She is a Syrian-American architect and writer from Aleppo. Sergie Attar is a co-founder of the How Many More? project and she serves as Chair of the Board of Directors of the Syria Campaign. She was named one of GOOD magazine's 2016 Good 100 for Karam's innovative work with Syrian refugees. Her articles and essays have been published in The Atlantic, BBC, Chicago Tribune, Foreign Policy, New York Times, and Politico. She has appeared on BBC, CNN, Huffington Post, NBC, and NPR, and she has given a TEDx talk. Sergie Attar has spoken about the Syrian humanitarian crisis at schools, universities, and institutions including: Aspen Institute, Chicago Council on Global Affairs, Harvard University, Johns Hopkins University, King's Academy in Jordan, New America, The New School, Northwestern University, Phillips Exeter Academy, Rhode Island School of Design, and the University of Chicago.