Zahra Arabzada visits Potomac

Friday's assembly speaker was the impressive Zahra Arabzada, an activist for the rights of women and girls in Afghanistan. Ms. Arabzada shared her story of traveling to the United States to receive her education at St. George's School in Newport, RI, and then attending Hobart & William Smith Colleges. She now lives and works in Washington, DC, and during the withdrawal of American troops last summer, she helped secure the safe passage of her family from Afghanistan to Canada. Ms. Arabzada used her experiences to share three important lessons with our students and faculty: practice empathy, persevere, and lean on your communities in times of need. 

After the assembly, Ms. Arabzada joined Bridget Gagne's GPAC 10 class for a Q&A session focused primarily on her experience helping her family to flee Afghanistan, as well as her advocacy work. She also shared about her ongoing case seeking asylum as a political refugee in the United States.