She is also the founder of Art of Hope, a non-profit, non-governmental, 501(c)3 charitable organization based in New York City that aims to provide trauma and PTSD relief for the Syrian refugee population through alternative educational and vocational training. In this event, she will discuss the devastating cycle that links poverty, lack of education, and social marginalization with extremism. She will also talk about counter violent extremism and nipping it from the bud among some of the most vulnerable of populations who are most susceptive to such plight.