IRC: From Burma to the Bronx and Beyond, Part 1

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Description: At 20, Mo Nom Tee Kham can trace a life's journey few others can. When she was just 12 her family fled their native Burma to Thailand, where Mo Nom moved from an orphanage to a refugee camp and worked low paying jobs as an undocumented immigrant. With help from the International Rescue Committee, she and her family resettled in New York three years ago. Now she's studying on a merit scholarship at Dickinson College, where her favorite class is Education and Democracy. In the first episode of a new IRC podcast series, Mo Nam tells the story of her family's life in Burma and flight across the border: Her father, a pro-democracy activist who had been arrested by Burma's ruling military junta, told her that he had won the lottery and that the family was going to "go for a vacation in Thailand." (You can read more about Mo Nom's family at http://www.ircblog.org/archives/1930_1321467639/231134)