Rana Novack, the daughter of Syrian immigrants, gave Doug Snyder's Humanitarianism class an exciting and informative guest lecture on the Syrian refugee crisis back in 2015. Since then, her work with refugee and humanitarian issues has crossed over with her聽role at IBM, where for the past couple of years she has聽been leading the development of the Refugee and Migration Predictive Analytics Solution, a tool to forecast refugee arrivals and change the way we manage migration crises.This past December, she聽was asked to give a TED Talk to share both her聽personal and professional experience, how the two have intersected, and to talk about her聽solution and what she聽believes to be the future of refugee support.
Check out Novack's insightful Talk here:聽
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