I’m honored for my work on the other side of the migrant crisis to be profiled by State Senator Will Brownsberger today…

“Every once in a while you run into a story that you can’t quite believe and you just want to hear more.

I recently found myself seated for dinner next to Isabella Alexander – an anthropologist who has spent many months living in the makeshift camps home to sub-Saharan African boys and men trying desperately to reach Europe.

Her courage, putting herself out there alone in a dangerous environment, borders on recklessness. But the story she brought back deserves hearing, and surely, there was no other way for her to get it. It starkly illustrates the increasingly painful dilemmas that we will all face around immigration policy in the decades to come…”

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