Contributors
Heather Oman
Associate Director
Heather lives in VA with her family. She is a Speech Language Pathologist and a Therapeutic Riding Instructor. She served on the prose staff of Segullah, a literary magazine for LDS women, for 12 years, and acted in the capacity of Associate Prose Editor for 3 years. She knows the power of language and the power of storytelling. She is thrilled to be a part of TSOS as Associate Director.
Elsewhere
- Connected Communities: Creating Meaningful Connections through Teaching English
- African Food is Delicious: TSOS at the One Journey Festival
- Integrating students with learning, language, and love
- #BringBackOurGirls: The story of Boko Haram and the girls of Chibok
- A Bridge to English Fluency
- Volunteer Commitment and Community Buy-in is the Key to a Refugee’s Success
- Volunteers: The Key to Successful Refugee Integration
- Hard Work is Heart Work
- If You Hear People Telling You That You Cannot Do Something, Make Sure You Do It
- Bonding as Newcomers
- We Don’t Have to Run Anymore
- I Want to Depend on Myself
- I Will Work with Refugees for the Rest of My Life. They are Such Good People.
- It Was Just Me, One Doctor, Four Midwives, and 50 Babies
- From Refugee Camp to Building a Community
- Learning Empathy through a New Language
- My Father Knew the Value of Education, Even Under the Taliban
- Surviving Darfur
- Everyone was Desperate
- Every Girl Needs Education in Every Country
- Farming is Familiar
- New Roots Provides Peace with a New Place and a New Farm
- The Taliban Came and Gave Me a Warning, But I Did Not Stop
- Finding and Helping Others through The Collateral Repair Project
- Desperate: Teenage Filmmakers Tell the Story of Women in Afghanistan
- A Refugee Shares Both the Hard and Good From Her Experience in Foster Care
- You Will Get Far but You Need Help at First
- As We Crossed the Border There Were Warm Tents and Food
- We Needed to Act to Save Our Lives
- The Process of a Healing Journey
- You are Human, You Have to Feel Things
- They are People that God Placed in my Path
- Always Be Proud That You Are Working
- One Family Gives Back
- Vulnerability of Women
- Fleeing the Taliban
- Here I Can Make My Own Future
- Better with Refugees
