This is going to prove hugely provocative, but it needs to be said anyways; we should be applauding President Trump’s authorization of military strikes against the murderous regime of Syrian dictator Bashar al Assad. Given the commander-in-chief’s inability to command...
Syria continues to be the great humanitarian tragedy of our generation. According to I am Syria, a website that tracks casualties in Syria, over 500,000 have been killed with 10,204 reported civilian deaths in 2017 alone. The United Nations High Commissioner for...
Syria is the great humanitarian disaster of our generation. According to Human Rights Watch's World Report for 2017, almost 500,000 civilians have been killed with another 100,000 detained or disappeared since the start of the civil conflict in 2011. The majority of...
The International Rescue Committee began resettling refugees in Richmond in November 2016. As Site Manager for the International Rescue Committee (IRC) in Richmond, I have seen refugees restart their lives and be embraced by this city. Nothing is more heartwarming...
As I prepared for the seminal RVA weekend of the year - GWARBBQ - I once again found myself in that strange place between being “here” and being “over there.” And how could you not, after seeing the pictures from Syria this past week? As I prepared for the seminal RVA...