The Iowa International Center has announced the recipients of the 2015 Passport to Prosperity Awards. The awards recognize immigrants and refugees who make Iowa a better place to live through their contributions to the community.
Congratulations to Mone Aye, a refugee of Burma, a bilingual community outreach worker with the Des Moines Public Schools, and board chair and co-founder of EMBARC; Alejandra Vidal-Soler Graham, an immigrant from Argentina and the founder and owner of South American Bee Inc.; Nu Huynh, a refugee of Vietnam and the executive director of the Iowa Asian Alliance; Serkan Usta, an immigrant from Turkey, the artistic director of Ballet Des Moines and co-owner of the School of Classical Ballet and Dance; and San Wong, an immigrant from Singapore and director of the Iowa Department of Human Rights.
To find out more about this year’s honorees, click here.
