Bridging Borders with Words: Writing with Immigrants and Refugees
Merna’s article, “Poems Without Borders: Writing to Bear Witness” is part of a series in Teachers & Writers Magazine on writers working with immigrants and refugees. Read Merna’s full article here on her work with refugee women in Athens, Greece.
We Are the Future: Poems with A Voice for Peace
Proceeds from this full color book of heartfelt poems and striking images will directly benefit the Stories of Arrival project.
Holding the Earth Together: Youth Voices Speak for Our World
The garden is an IRC New Roots Program for refugee gardeners which also has a focus on youth programs that support learning about food systems and sustainability from a social justice perspective.
Stories of Arrival in Collaboration with Project Feast
As the project has grown, so too Merna’s commitment to nourishing community partnerships. In 2015 Merna established an intergenerational collaboration with Project Feast, an organization that serves refugee women that was located at the Tukwila Community Center and is now in Kent.