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  • March 18, 2022

    Iraqi Refugee Helps Other Newcomers Settle in Lincoln

    Maysoon Shaheen
    Doctoral Student and Ambassador for Local Arabic Community

    Maysoon Shaheen fled Iraq in 1998 during Saddam Hussein’s regime, a move that likely saved her life. In order to receive…

  • March 18, 2022

    Mexican Artist Finds Community in Lincoln

    David Manzanares
    Mural and Sculpture Artist

    In 2017, David Manzanares moved to Lincoln with his Nebraskan-born wife and two sons, then ages 3 and 1. Manzanares is a mural and sculpture…

  • March 18, 2022

    Laotian Refugee Gives Back to Lincoln Community

    Soulinnee Phan
    City of Lincoln City Clerk

    Soulinnee Phan’s parents came to Nebraska from Laos, fleeing the Communists. A few years prior, they’d swum for their lives across the Mekong River…

  • March 15, 2022

    Eugenie Kirenga

    In 2005, Eugenie Kirenga traveled with her one-year-old son from Rwanda to the United States to visit her two sisters who were attending school in Pittsburgh, PA. But as her…

  • March 15, 2022

    Juan Arias

    In the late 1990s, at age 21, Juan Arias fled economic crisis in his native Ecuador. He landed in Richmond, Indiana, a small town with few Hispanic people. “When people…

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