Alison Millan has worked in the field of immigrant and refugee services in New York and New Jersey for the past 12 years. She joined the International Rescue Committee in 2012, where she oversees resettlement services for nearly 1,000 refugees and immigrants in northern New Jersey each year. Prior to joining the IRC, Alison served as Director of Immigrant Services at a community-based settlement house in Queens, New York. She expanded funding and programming for thousands of immigrants to improve English skills, access needed benefits and integrate into life in New York City. Alison has been honored as an Outstanding Human Rights Activist by Kean University’s Human Rights Institute and received a Literacy Recognition Award from the Literacy Assistance Center in New York for her work in the field of adult literacy. She graduated from Dickinson College with degrees in Anthropology and Women's Studies. She is fluent in Spanish and proficient in French and has studied and worked abroad in France, Cameroon, China, Cuba and Spain. Mustafa Alshabeeb arrived in the New Jersey in March 2017 after eight years of waiting to be granted a Special Immigrant Visa (SIV) for his work with the U.S. army in Iraq. A dentist in Iraq, he arrived in the U.S. with his wife and two daughters, 8 and 4 years old. With assistance from the International Rescue Committee, he got an apartment in Elizabeth, and help navigating systems to rebuild his life in a new country. Upon arriving, Mustafa noted, “I’ve been dreaming of a place to find peace for me and my family. want my daughters to be raised in a place where they concentrate on studies and excel in their life, in a place free from extremism, in a place where race [and] religion do not affect who you are but being a human [is] what really matters.” Since 2003, and for the 14 years that followed until he arrived in the US, Mustafa’s work on and off with the US army led to threats and attacks, including a bomb at the door of his home. In 2009, when the Special Immigrant Visa program was initiated, he applied after having survived injuries from gunshots and shrapnel on various occasions. Eight years later, he was granted the visa and arrived in New Jersey, where he is working to obtain his license to practice dentistry here in the US. Donna Rosa is an international business development services (BDS) consultant and champion for small enterprises in developing countries. She has coined the term “aidtrepreneurship” as a way to grow economies through entrepreneurship. Donna helps micro- and small enterprises with business advisory services, strategies, business analysis, business plan development, market research, marketing, capacity development, training, organizational development, and mentoring. Donna’s expertise is a unique complement of corporate business management experience in 13 countries, technical background in food science and nutrition, and hands-on international development work in 14 developing countries. She has worked for multinational corporations and small businesses as well as USAID, DFID, and UNDP. Donna has lived in Zurich and served as Global Sustainability Ambassador in her most recent corporate role. She is currently President of the Northern New Jersey Chapter of UNA-USA and a board member of the Public Private Alliance Foundation. For more information or to get in touch, visit www.donnamrosa.com.