Zareen Taj (LLC cohort 22) to give TEDxUMBC 2020 Talk

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.

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