From 2008-2011, I followed the lives of 9-year-old Congolese refugee Bill Clinton Hadam, his family, and his school, in a real-time, print and multimedia series for The Christian Science Monitor.  The series was honored with numerous awards, and travel was funded by the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting.

• Who’s Who: A guide to the main characters
• About this project: FAQs
• Resources: Links to learn more about refugee resettlement, cross-cultural education, and other issues discussed in this series
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PRINT ARTICLES (here’s a list at the Monitor’s website)

•  A 9-year-old Finds Refuge in Atlanta
•  Building Community From a World of Difference
•  Spirit of a School Confronts Letter of the Law
•  “No Child” Act Leaving Charter School’s Refugee Staff Behind?
•  Caught in the Refugee Cycle for Life?
•  Shooting Expands a Community’s Borders
•  Third-grade math: a teacher’s calculus
•  Who’s failing – the student or the test?
•  Tackling the three Rs in a second language
•  Charter schools’ biggest crisis: A place to call home
•  Lost in migration
•  What’s it like to be a refugee in America?
•  Unafraid to talk about faith, a charter school thrives
•  Starting to feel like home

BLOG POSTS (here’s a list at the Monitor’s website)

FOLLOW-UP in other media

• “Bill Clinton’s 7-Year-Old Brother,” on This American Life‘s episode 535: “Origin Story 2014”
• “Fleeing is Believing,” on This American Life‘s episode 406: “True Urban Legends”
• “Staying Power,” on the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting website
• “Witch doctor seeks Kiva loan?”, in the Robert Bosch Foundation Bosch publication “Mapping Transatlantic Futures: German-American Relations in a Global World; An eVolume to Celebrate 30 Years of Bosch Fellowship (1984–2014)”