Lok Darjee: Preserving American Democracy Takes All of Us

Episode 47 April 09, 2025 00:41:36
Lok Darjee: Preserving American Democracy Takes All of Us
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Lok Darjee: Preserving American Democracy Takes All of Us

Apr 09 2025 | 00:41:36

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Show Notes

Lok Darjee works to empower others from refugee and immigrant backgrounds to use their vote and their voices to help shape and preserve the American democracy that he cares deeply about. His family is originally from Bhutan, but they were among the more than 100,000 Nepali-speaking people who were displaced in the early 1990s due to government persecution and attacks on their language, culture, religion, and citizenship. Lok resettled in Twin Falls, Idaho, as a teenager. While in Twin Falls, he founded a program to pair refugee students with American-born mentors.
 
He now runs Refugee Civic Action in Pennsylvania ‎and is a fellow at Foreign Policy for America. Lok holds a master’s degree in international affairs from Columbia ‎University and has written extensively on immigration, policy, and identity.‎
 
 
Lok said pausing the refugee resettlement program goes against who we are as Americans. The program “gives a lot of hope to kids like me who are refugees, gives a second chance to people like ‎my family to come to this nation and build up again,” he said.
 
Check out his recent powerful op-ed in the Inquirer.

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