Helen Lindsay
Helen Lindsay is a graduate fellow at the Center on Forced Displacement and a PhD student in BUSPHs Community Health Science program. She received a BS in Mechanical Engineering from Boston University. During her undergrad at BU she was involved in Global health technology and humanitarian health research. After graduation she was an Engineering for […]
Souhaila Nassar
Souhaila Nassar is a doctoral student in the Language & Literacy Education program at Wheelock College of Education & Human Development. Her research focuses on pedagogies of care, identity work, and designing culturally resonant curricula for Palestinian refugee children. She also explores how translanguaging pedagogy can support multilingual learners in engaging with science as content […]
Rashmina Sayeeda
Rashmina Sayeeda is a Post-Baccalaureate Research Fellow in the Zaman Lab and Center on Forced Displacement. Rashmina earned her B.A. in Neuroscience at Boston University and has been involved in the Zaman Lab in her undergraduate career, looking at the ethics of conducting infectious disease research in underserved and refugee communities. Rashmina is also interested […]
Sasha Tucker
Sasha Tuckeris an MFA candidate in Literary Translation. She is working on the work of Paul Celan, thinking about both his physical and linguistic displacement. In 2025, she graduated from Williams College, where she studied Classics, English, and German. Last year, she completed a Fulbright grant in Regensburg, Germany.
Noah Veloz
Noah Veloz is a PhD student in the Language and Literacy Education Program in the Wheelock school of education and human development. They focus on bilingual education and adult immigrant language and literacy education in community based organizations. They have a particular interest in adults with emergent literacy and limited or interrupted formal education.