As part of Karen Jacobsen’s Refugees in Towns project, three Fletcher students worked with Augusta, Maine Mayor David Rollins to bring together 50 people of different backgrounds to consider what a community center for Augusta’s growing immigrant population might look like.

Anna Ackerman, Heba El-Hendi, Claire Wilson, and Hania Mumtaz led a discussion about what the community would like such a center to look like. Following up from the meeting, the students will work with the Mayor define a process to make the community center happen, which will likely include putting together a steering committee that can flesh out details.

Read the story in the Kennebunk Journal/Morning Sentinel here.