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Advocacy

Refugee Doctors Advocate for Legislative Change

Their Stories Become Our Call to Action

First-hand stories move people. A single account of what someone survived, and what they're rebuilding, can change a mind, shift a vote, or open a hiring pipeline. It can help build support for humane, legal pathways for those who have been forcibly displaced.

When a refugee shares their own experience in their own words, it does something a statistic or policy brief can't: it makes the reader see a person, not a headline.

This is why the stories we gather are central to our advocacy work.

What can you do to help?

Everyone has a role to play. Below are some tools, resources, and entry points to get started advocating for forcibly displaced people today.

Share a Story

Share the stories from our website and social media accounts with your friends and family. Your amplification is advocacy.

Find Stories to Share

Contact Your Representatives

Use our call scripts and email templates to contact your local, state, and federal lawmakers on issues impacting forcibly displaced people.

What would you do if you had to leave everything behind?

By the end of 2025, more than 117.8 million people worldwide had been forcibly displaced by war, persecution, or human rights abuses — and 45 million of them are children.

They arrive in refugee camps and countries seeking safety and carrying little: legal papers, if they're lucky. A backpack. A child's hand in theirs.

What they carry that we can't see is heavier: fractured families, homes they'll never return to, professions they loved, friends and relatives they may never see again.

In a climate where immigrant stories are often ignored or twisted, we believe stories are a form of justice. When someone shares what they survived, they reclaim their voice. When we amplify it through film, photography, and advocacy, the world listens. Hearts soften. Policy begins to shift.

Because when a lawmaker sees a person instead of a statistic, and a neighbor understands instead of fears, rebuilding becomes possible.

Your support helps us share these stories where they matter most.

— Kristen Smith Dayley, Executive Director, Their Story is Our Story

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