Description
With Speakers: Adita Arya and Hashmat Nadirpor
Location
LAW 3750, UCI School of Law; 401 E Peltason Dr Suite 1000 Irvine, CA 92697
Date & Time
January 22, 2025 12:00-1:30 PM
35 MAX CAPACITY! REGISTER NOW!
Wednesday, January 22, 2025
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Lunch & Learn Program
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Room: LAW 3750
Irvine, CA 92697
Thank you to our partners with this event:
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Speaker Bios
Adita Arya is the Executive Director and Co-Founder of the Afghan Literacy Foundation
(ALF), which she established in 2009. With over 15 years of dedicated service, ALF has
been instrumental in helping Afghan students stay in school to prevent child labor and
early child marriage, even under the most challenging circumstances. The foundation’s
impactful work has been featured on CBS Sunday Morning. Adita holds an MA in
Islamic Studies and an MS in Educational Leadership, and she is deeply committed toeducation as a means of empowerment and liberation. Having arrived in the US as a
refugee from Afghanistan in 1981, she now resides in Irvine, CA.
(ALF), which she established in 2009. With over 15 years of dedicated service, ALF has
been instrumental in helping Afghan students stay in school to prevent child labor and
early child marriage, even under the most challenging circumstances. The foundation’s
impactful work has been featured on CBS Sunday Morning. Adita holds an MA in
Islamic Studies and an MS in Educational Leadership, and she is deeply committed toeducation as a means of empowerment and liberation. Having arrived in the US as a
refugee from Afghanistan in 1981, she now resides in Irvine, CA.
Hashmat Nadirpor is a legal expert from Afghanistan. He is currently leading the Afghanistan Human Rights Project at University of California, Irvine School of Law to monitor and advocate for action to address Afghanistan’s deteriorating human rights situation.
Prior to this, he has worked for more than a decade with many national and international organizations on rule of law and capacity building projects in Afghanistan. Hashmat has received his LL.M from University of Washington, School of Law and his B.A. from Kabul University Faculty of Law & Political Scienc
