Society & Culture
Lama Amr takes what she calls “weird paths” to find a way forward for a better world. Working with colleagues, she is a social entrepreneur who has founded organizations BirHakaya and Build Palestine. Her innovations include reorienting her thinking about Israeli checkpoints and choosing an unexpected college major. PAYCE Fellow Darrien Alexander Fordham explores a series of choices that have lead Amr to educate and create change in Palestine and beyond. Music from bensound.com “When in the West” by Blue Dot Sessions.