immigrant
November 8, 2024
Big sister leads the way
Asha Warsame saw a lack of resources for immigrant and first-generation students in Seattle. Now equipped with her Ph.D., she's out to solve that problem.
May 8, 2020
Serving youth suits her
After deciding medicine wasn't for her, Yasmin Habib created a nonprofit program to serve refugee, immigrant and marginalized children.
June 3, 2019
A week in ‘Baby Jail’
As a former undocumented immigrant, I felt it was my duty to help.
August 18, 2017
'We came here to contribute'
As an undocumented immigrant, he dreaded going to the dentist. Now he goes the extra mile to put his patients at ease.
March 1, 2016
When compassion was policy
With five children and a sixth on the way, the Nguyen family fled Vietnam. Washington Governor Dan Evans opened the door to a life the family never would have imagined.
December 1, 2008
Escape from Shanghai
Going off to college can be difficult, even traumatic—leaving home for the first time, moving to an unfamiliar town, living with strangers. For Julia Lin, ’65, though, it required assuming a false identity, dodging bombs and surviving a pirate attack.
March 1, 2007
Immigrant mental health
Immigrants from Asia have lower rates of psychiatric disorders than American-born Asians and other native-born Americans, according to the first national epidemiological survey of Asian Americans in the United States.