Sawsan Al-Dawodi was trained as an engineer at the University of Baghdad. Al-Dawodi was the head of the first feminist Iraqi delegation to the Secretary of Labor in Washington DC. After that, she worked on a U.S. AID-sponsored project in Baghdad. Al-Dawodi and her family went into exile in Egypt. While in Cairo, Al-Dawodi became a volunteer in the Center for Migration and Refugee Studies at the American University, which offers legal aid, case advocacy, and referrals to relevant service providers for Iraqi refugees in the resettlement process. Because of her experience in a refugee camp in Egypt Al-Dawodi’s interests have shifted from engineering to humanitarian causes. Al-Dawodi now lives in New Jersey.

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