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Even in the most dire circumstances, good things can happen.聽

Wendy Walker-Moffat will discuss findings from her 37 years of longitudinal research on the education of Hmong refugee girls.聽What is the value of longitudinal research?聽聽How does one keep going when you keep hitting walls in your research?聽聽How does one, especially a woman, balance the often conflicting demands of education, work, family and being a parent?

Walker-Moffat will relay her own career path, working in refugee camps in Thailand for three years, teaching at the University of California at Berkeley鈥檚 School of Social Welfare, lecturing at Oxford University鈥檚 Refugee Studies Center, conducting research on women immigrants at Stanford University, and as an independent scholar, most recently as a Fulbright Specialist at Chiang Mai University, Thailand.聽聽Currently, she is a Visiting Scholar at the George and Irina Schaeffer Center for the Study of Genocide, Human Rights and Conflict Prevention at the American University of Paris where her聽 research focus is on what her longitudinal research on the education of girls in Hmong refugee families has taught her that could benefit Rohingya girls refugees today who have survived genocide.聽