When war broke out in Bosnia, UNCG alumna Rada Petric ’08, ’10 MS, ’20 PHD was just a little girl living in Sarajevo. Every day, her parents and two siblings packed their bags and headed to the airport, hoping their names would be called from “the list.” Being on the list meant you were chosen to leave the country that day, on the city’s one airplane. But every day, their names were not called.

Liana H’Yua Adrong ’16, ’21 MSW is executive director of the Greensboro’s Montagnard Dega Association and is chair of the Greensboro International Advisory committee. “During the Vietnam War, my father, like many Montagnard men, worked with the U.S Special Forces, fighting for our freedom from Communism,” she explains. Once the war ended, her father was […]

Arriving in Greensboro in 2008, Noor Ghazi ’19 MA found peace. Within a decade, she discovered Peace Studies, a field that is virtually unavailable in the Middle East. Now, she is working with others to change that. “I have always dreamed of … studying further. I come from a country that is torn by war, […]

Dr. Ivana Nikolic ’02 is a refugee from Bosnia who found her way to UNCG’s Biology Department. When her family arrived in Greensboro, Nikolic was the only one who spoke English, and she had already graduated high school. So their resettlement agency went about lining up a job for her. After all, somebody needed to […]