Bandak Lul is an acclaimed refugee advocate and human rights activist. He is a research project manager at Arizona State University Office of Sex Trafficking Intervention Research (STIR). Lul holds a number of social justice and human rights positions including his recent appointment as a Youth Delegate representing his birth country, South Sudan at the United Nations Youth for Human Rights International, member of the planning committee and national speaker at the Migrant and Refugee Leadership Academy, and serving as advisory board member at Refugee Code Academy. He has appeared on CNN, and as a speaker at Uncharted- The Berkeley Festival of Ideas, panel member at Amnesty International USA Regional Conference, and at ASU refugee and migrant panel discussion. Lul is a former refugee from South Sudan (the then Sudan) who spent 14 years of his life living in a refugee camp in Ethiopia. In 2006, he was granted a refugee status to the United States, host city Phoenix, AZ. He holds a Master’s Degree in Social Justice & Human Rights, and holds two bachelor’s degrees in BA in Political Science and BA in Sociology.

On today’s show we have Director of Ethiopian Diaspora Fellowship, Rediate Tekeste. We held an instagram live conversation surrounding the values of her amazing organization, why it’s important to reconnect to Ethiopia through our own experiences & the importance of the African Diaspora to the development and understanding of Africa. This is Africa In US.