My journey as an Atlantic Fellow DURKHANAI AYUBI Atlantic Fellow for Social Equity
When Penelope Brook from the Atlantic Institute visited the University of Melbourne during my first fellowship year, it was a key moment. I heard about the Institute’s commitment to generating a global sense of community. Then I attended the first Senior Fellows Global Convening in Oxford in 2019, and what happened was quite extraordinary: I felt excitement, curiosity, and all kinds of emotions and aspirations. The Institute felt like the hub at the centre, connecting all the different spokes of the various communities globally. As a first-generation migrant from Afghanistan, with an acute awareness of my family’s and my country’s history, and misgivings created through dominant narratives of appropriation and imperialism, I felt an electric alignment. Being able to analyze such perspectives with other Fellows broadened my thinking to a global level,
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