Prof. Micheline Aharonian Marcom

I am the founder and co-director of the digital storytelling and public arts project The New American Story Project [NASP]. NASP’s mission is to foster humane and substantive dialogue around the complexities of migration, US immigration and asylum laws, and human rights concerns of new immigrants. Our current project, Welcome Children: Voices of the Central American Refugee Crisis focuses on unaccompanied Central American minors. We present immigrant young people’s oral histories using videos, audio clips, monologues, photography, and infographics, contextualizing them with interviews of scholars, lawyers, judges, and Central American experts. We hope to foster greater understanding about the ongoing humanitarian crises in Central America.