{"id":21223,"date":"2026-10-05T14:06:42","date_gmt":"2026-10-05T18:06:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/africanstudies\/?p=21223"},"modified":"2026-10-20T08:13:06","modified_gmt":"2026-10-20T12:13:06","slug":"from-kakuma-to-shaping-refugee-policy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/africanstudies\/2026\/from-kakuma-to-shaping-refugee-policy\/","title":{"rendered":"From Kakuma to Shaping Refugee Policy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        From Kakuma to Shaping Refugee Policy\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Every room that I go into, I move as an expert. I might not have the academic credentials, but I do have the lived experience. And that is enough.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">After spending nearly two years living in Kenya\u2019s Kakuma Refugee Camp, Carleton University student Nyabuol Biel Gang is bringing her lived experience directly to decision-makers, global youth councils and Parliament Hill.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignleft size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"240\" height=\"160\" src=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/africanstudies\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/287\/2026\/10\/830095447_1628783928779434_1158078286566369544_n-240x160-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-21226\" role=\"none\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">From becoming the first refugee member of UNICEF\u2019s Generation Unlimited Young People\u2019s Action Team to winning the C.J. Scott Memorial Award, Gang is working to ensure displaced youth have a direct voice in shaping refugee policy, education and mental health support.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Read how Gang turned her journey from Kakuma to Ottawa into a platform for global advocacy and documentary filmmaking:<a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/story\/gang-kakuma-shaping-refugee-policy\/?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTAAcGRvZgVicmlkETF2UjV0enZKb2tJYmhuQ21pc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQQMjIyMDM5MTc4ODIwMDg5MgABHuk2-riVf5N3vQwf9-J4-JM5FTp-KVWDxIcR4GV9F5BliFdEAkXJJqmzYVtm_aem_a6arQQZhq0HrID7XN9Brbg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/carleton.ca\/\u2026\/gang-kakuma-shaping-refugee-policy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every room that I go into, I move as an expert. I might not have the academic credentials, but I do have the lived experience. And that is enough.\u201d After spending nearly two years living in Kenya\u2019s Kakuma Refugee Camp, Carleton University student Nyabuol Biel Gang is bringing her lived experience directly to decision-makers, global [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":42,"featured_media":21226,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1,277],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-post"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/africanstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21223","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/africanstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/africanstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/africanstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/42"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/africanstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21223"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/africanstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21223\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21228,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/africanstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21223\/revisions\/21228"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/africanstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21226"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/africanstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/africanstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/africanstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}