BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.1.7//EN TZID:America/Anchorage X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/Anchorage BEGIN:VEVENT UID:199@alaskaworldaffairs.org DTSTART;TZID=America/Anchorage:20151204T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Anchorage:20151204T130000 DTSTAMP:20231222T084002Z URL:https://alaskaworldaffairs.org/archived-events/refugees-in-alaska/ SUMMARY:New Beginnings: Perspectives on Refugees in Alaska - A Panel Discus sion DESCRIPTION:Panelists:\n\nJessica Kovarik\, Program Director/State Refugee Coordinator\, Refugee Assistance and Immigration Services\nJessica Kovarik \, has served as State Refugee Coordinator/Program Director of Refugee Ass istance and Immigration Services (RAIS) at Catholic Social Services since July 2014. Prior to her work with the RAIS Program\, Ms. Kovarik has volun teered\, interned and worked with several domestic refugee resettlement pr ograms as well as worked on international programming for refugees with bo th Save the Children and International Rescue Committee. She has a Master of Arts in International Human Rights with a focus on refugee studies and also holds a Certificate in Humanitarian Assistance from the University of Denver\, Josef Korbel School of International Studies. During graduate sc hool she was also a research associate for the University of Denver’s Hu man Trafficking Center. Jessica is a former Peace Corps Volunteer who serv ed in an indigenous community in the cloud forest of Panama as a Sustainab le Agriculture Specialist and also coordinated the country’s Gender and Development Programming.\n\n \;\n\nMargaret Stock\, Attorney\, Cascadi a Cross-Border Law Group LLC\nMargaret D. Stock is an Alaska attorney who earned her undergraduate\, graduate\, and law degrees at Harvard Universit y.  A retired lieutenant colonel in the US Army Reserve Military Police C orps\, she was named a 2013 MacArthur Fellow (“genius grant” recipient ) by the John D. &\; Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation for her work on issues involving immigration and national security.  She is the principal attorney at Cascadia Cross Border Law Group LLC in Anchorage\, AK.  She has worked with dozens of refugees and asylum-seekers over the two decades of her legal career.\n\n \n\n \;\n\nmoderated by\nDr. Paul Dunscomb\ , Professor of East Asian History\, UAA\nPaul Dunscomb is Professor of Eas t Asian History at the University of Alaska Anchorage and was the inaugura l Director of the UAA Confucius Institute. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Kansas. His book Japan’s Siberian Intervention\, 1918-1922 : “A Great Disobedience Against the People” (New York: Lexington Books \, 2011)\, is the first complete narrative of this topic in English. Japan Since 1945\, his contribution to the Association for Asian Studies Key Is sues in Asian Studies Series has just been released.\n\n\n\nThe podcast fo r this event is available through Alaska Public Media's AWAC presents\, cl ick here to listen. ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://alaskaworldaffairs.org/wp-content/upload s/2015/10/NewBeginnings_Graphic.jpg CATEGORIES:International Program Series END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Anchorage X-LIC-LOCATION:America/Anchorage BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20151101T010000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0900 TZNAME:AKST END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR