Speaker: Juliane Ramic, Director of Social Services, Nationalities Service Center

Discussion Topic:
Whether your professional interests are global or local, connecting with refugees in your local community can offer incredible opportunities for CSR activities. 
 
Refugees were forced to flee their homelands because of their religious or political beliefs.  They are parents, doctors, business owners, farmers, activist, teachers, and laborers.  They have been targeted by their government for their beliefs.   They are permitted entrance in the U.S. and are given ‘refugee status’, are employment authorized and afforded benefits for the first 8 months.  Once in the U.S. they are served or ‘sponsored’ by one of 347 refugee resettlement agencies. Refugees are resettled in major urban areas and small towns and in every state of the union.

During this Issues in Depth call, Juliane will be speaking about the refugee experience and opportunities for local business and leaders to get involved.  She will share her experience and provide tools and resources to enable participants to connect to agencies in their local communities.

About the Speaker:
Juliane Ramic joined Nationalities Service Center in Philadelphia five years ago. She oversees the agency’s services to refugees, asylees, and survivors of torture including services to individuals and families, group work, and ethnic community building.   Prior to joining NSC, she worked at Immigration & Refugee Services of America (IRSA now named USCRI) where she worked on projects funded by the U.S. State Department, the Office of Refugee Resettlement, and the Corporation for National and Community Service. 

Juliane’s extensive work with refugees includes work in local communities throughout the U.S., national organizations and refugee camps in east Africa. In 2000, Juliane was selected by USA for UNHCR to serve as a Camp Sadako fellow and travelled to Ethiopia.  There she provided technical assistance to the refugee women’s association and provided training and support to refugee community organizers.  She holds an MSW from the George Warren Brown School of Social Work at Washington University.

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