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A Look Back:
This Spring 2014 Event Examined
Issues Facing Immigrant Professionals in Massachusetts
In April 2014, the MIRA Coalition brought together nearly a dozen experts to discuss the opportunities and challenges facing immigrant professionals in Massachusetts.
A robust crowd of more than 100 attendees gathered at The Boston Foundation to explore the issue, peppering the speakers with questions and adding many of their own observations.
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Joyce Sackey, M.D.,
is Dean of Global Health & Multicultural Affairs and Professor of Medicine at Tufts University School of Medicine, as well as a practicing internist at Tufts Medical Center.
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Johan Uvin
is the Acting Assistant Secretary in the Office of Career, Technical, and Adult Education, US Department of Education.
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Josiane Martinez
served as Executive Director of the Massachusetts Office for Refugees and Immigrants (ORI), the state agency that oversees the resettlement of refugees and asylees in the Commonwealth and that coordinates state policies and programs that serve immigrant communities.
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Eva A. Millona
is Executive Director of the Massachusetts Immigrant and Refugee Advocacy Coalition (MIRA), the state's largest organization representing the foreign born, and co-chair of the National Partnership for New Americans, the lead national organization focusing on immigrant integration.
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Ron Marlow
served as the Assistant Secretary for Access and Opportunity, Executive Office for Administration and Finance, in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
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Dr. Anna Pinto
is a fully trained child neurologist from Brazil who came to United States to pursue further training in epilepsy/clinical neurophysiology.
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Jeff Gross
directs the New Americans Integration Institute at the Massachusetts Immigrant and Refuge Advocacy (MIRA) Coalition.
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