Shoshana Hecker, Michael Karam

Shoshana Hecker, Michael Karam

|| Shoshana Hecker || As Trickle Up’s Senior Director of Refugee Affairs, Shoshana Hecker leads the team in providing diverse technical assistance and building institutions and organizations’ capacities to deliver the Graduation Approach for refugees. She has over 20 years of broad range technical and management experience in international economic development, having managed and supported programs around the world, including in Chile, East Timor, Georgia, Honduras, Indonesia, Jordan, Kosovo, Malawi, Sierra Leone, and
Uganda. Based in Washington, D.C., Shoshana’s husband Eric and her one-year old Izidora (Izi) often accompany her on her numerous filed travels. She has an MBA from ESADE in Barcelona, Spain and
completed her undergraduate studies at Grinnell College in Iowa. _____________________________________________________________________________________________ || Michael Karam || Michael Karam is Trickle Up’s Communications Associate for the Refugee Affairs team. In addition to documenting refugees’ journeys towards resilience and self-reliance, Michael curates and designs graphics and factsheets. He also maintains the Graduation for refugees microsite and manages the organization’s attendance at conferences and other external events. Previously, Michael interpreted in Arabic and French for refugees as they went through the green card process with HIAS PA. Originally
from Lebanon, Michael studied Economics and International Relations with a Math minor at the University of Pennsylvania where he engaged in international and local social justice work, receiving the Ivy Day
Bowl Award and the PennGALA Student Leadership Award.