E13 From Asylum Seekers to Asylum Speakers with Jaz O'Hara

Jaz O'Hara is the amazing Founder of The Worldwide Tribe and Host of the Asylum Speakers podcast.

Moved by the refugee crisis in the Calais Jungle, she shared a post on social media and woke up in the morning to 65,000 shares and so many messages. 

It started her journey to better understand the issues facing Asylum seekers and for many years now she has been sharing stories and advocating for fair treatment and rights for those experiencing displacement and the many challenges that leaving your home to find a safer situation entails.

In this episode, we explore her work and learn about her amazing parents who have fostered 4 boys from Libya, Sudan, and Eritrea who were in need of asylum.

We also discuss amongst many things, the amazing response to the Ukrainian war and explore why the response to asylum seekers from other parts of the world has not been as enthusiastic. What is it in our own biases that can leave us vulnerable to propaganda about THE OTHER?