E80: Fatemeh Alhosseini believes personalized immigrant support has the best outcomes

To celebrate #IWD2025, The Newcomers Podcast will be publishing daily episodes between March 2nd - 8th celebrating a female immigrant. Come celebrate with us as we tell the stories of some of the many amazing immigrant heroines.

Join us as we explore the bitter-sweet world of the immigrant.

For our fifth #IWD2025 episode, I'm speaking with Fatemeh Alhosseini, Executive Director at Impakt Foundation.

Resilience as a function of the system, personalized support, narrative therapy as a tool for cultural immersion, Fatemeh left me with a lot to think about after this conversation.

And I think it’ll be same for you.

Fatemeh moved to Canada from Iran 10 years ago as an international student. After an MA in Developmental Psychology, and then a PhD in same with a focus on resilience, she joined Impakt Foundation as the Executive Director.

In this conversation, Fatemeh and I chat about Impakt Foundation’s “for newcomers, by newcomers” model. We also explore:

* Moving to Canada 10 years ago to study

* Why we immigrants need to get involved in building and implementing immigrant settlement and support programs

* Why she chose to work at Impakt Foundation

* The Impakt Foundation origin story (The Tailor Project)

* Why resilience isn’t a personal feature, and more good stuff.

Official Links

👋🏽 Follow Fatemeh on LinkedIn

🫶🏽 Learn more about Impakt Foundation

💖 Learn more about The Tailor Project

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