BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 CALSCALE:GREGORIAN PRODID:iCalendar-Ruby BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Lectures & Presentations,Networking & Social Event DESCRIPTION:The OHIO Lancaster Diversity Committee and Rotary cordially inv ite OHIO faculty\, staff\, and students to a special conversation:\n\n \n\n Central Ohio’s Immigrants and Refugees: \n\nHow They Help Us\, How We Can H elp Them\n\n \n\nGuest Speaker: Flannery Rokeby-Jackson | CRIS\n\nDate: Mon day\, October 3\nTime: 12 noon\nPlace: Brasee Hall Gymnasium\n\nFREE pizza for OHIO students who attend this event\n\n-OR-\n\nVirtual via Zoom: Please register to receive a link: https://bit.ly/3f8d4n8\n\n \n\nAbout:\n\nFlann ery Rokeby-Jackson\, of the Columbus Refugee and Immigration Services (CRIS )\, will talk about the challenges refugees and immigrants face in Central Ohio\, the contributions they make to our communities\, and the ways in whi ch we can support them.\n\n \n\nAbout Flannery Rokeby-Jackson:\n\nFlannery Rokeby-Jackson has worked with CRIS as the Volunteer Coordinator since Sept ember of 2020\, and she has worked with refugees in different capacities fo r the past 6 years. She majored in Arabic and Economics at Davidson College in North Carolina where she studied abroad in Jordan and Morocco. She star ted working with refugees while out of the country\, and she co-founded a R efugee Support Organization on Campus once she returned. Since then\, she h as always wanted to work to support refugees full-time\, and she loves bein g able to connect community members to this important work in her role as v olunteer coordinator.\n\n \n\nAbout CRIS:\n\nCRIS's mission is to help refu gees and immigrants reach safety and stability\, sustain self-sufficiency\, and achieve successful integration into the Central Ohio community. Flanne ry Rokebay-Jackson works with community members who are interested in suppo rting CRIS's mission to connect people to a wide array of programs. DTEND:20221003T173000Z DTSTAMP:20241124T044836Z DTSTART:20221003T160000Z GEO:39.738676;-82.586367 LOCATION:Ohio University Lancaster\, Brasee Hall | Gymnasium SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Central Ohio’s Immigrants & Refugees: How They Help Us\, How We Can Help Them UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_41094763063778 URL:https://calendar.ohio.edu/event/flannery_rokeby-jackson_talk END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR