Basma Alawee is a member of the U.S. Refugee Advisory Board and the We Are All America national campaign director at National Partnership for New Americans. She is also an honorary delegate of the Refugee Congress.
"If we want to solve the global refugee crisis in a durable way, we need to bring the voices of refugees, asylees, and other forcibly displaced people to the policy arenas where they are most needed," Basma Alawee writes in this opinion.