Before arriving in Providence, Rhode Island, in 2007, former journalist Omar Bah was jailed and tortured in his home country of the Gambia for writing critically about the country’s dictatorship.
Bah’s harrowing experience of torture, and his later time spent as a refugee, inspired him to dedicate his career to researching trauma and resilience while supporting refugees through the Providence-based organization he founded called the Refugee Dream Center.
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