Pradeepa Oral History Interview
Pradeepa is a Sri Lankan Tamil artist and multimedia creator, as well as a social activist, hailing from Minneapolis, Minnesota and based in Colombo, Sri Lanka at the time of this interview. She left Sri Lanka as a young child and grew up as an asylum seeker at constant risk of deportation in the United States.
Photo of a Vest that Fatima Created For a Pro-Refugee Protest
Photo of a vest that Fatima created for a pro-refugee protest in Washington, D.C. in 2016. Fatima has experienced the hardship of being a refugee in a country where she was made to feel like an outsider from a young age. She had to flee Afghanistan again due to safety concerns and understands that seeking refuge in a new place comes from a desperate situation.
A Vest that Fatima Created For a Pro-Refugee Protest
Photo of a vest that Fatima created for a pro-refugee protest in Washington, D.C. in 2016. Fatima has experienced the hardship of being a refugee in a country where she was made to feel like an outsider from a young age. She had to flee Afghanistan again due to safety concerns and understands that seeking refuge in a new place comes from a desperate situation.