Event
Empowering Refugees @ McGill with Speaker: Emma Harden-Wolfson, DISE
Tuesday, March 26, 2024 12:00to13:30
Did you know that only 7% of refugees worldwide are able to access higher education?
Are you interested in learning more about UNHCR’s 15% by 2030 Global Pledge to expand refugee access and success in higher education and finding out what local action is already happening on campus to empower refugees?
Do you want to be involved in discussing how McGill can improve its support refugees on campus?
Then join the event Empowering Refugees @ McGill on Tuesday, March 26 from 12:00 PM to 1:30 PM.
Speakers include:
- Manal Stulgaitis, UNHCR
- Megan Bradley, Director of the McGill Refugee Research Group (MRRG)
- Emma Harden-Wolfson, Assistant Professor in the Department of Integrated Studies in Education and former lead on the right to higher education at UNESCO IESALC
- and Current Refugee Students at McGill and members of the WUSC Student Refugee Program McGill Local Committee
This is a hybrid event offered in-person at the Faculty of Education and by Zoom.
Refreshments will be provided for in-person participants.
All members of the McGill community are welcome.
