GLOBAL TIPPING POINTS: THINK GLOBALLY & ACT LOCALLY

A three-part series on current world affairs

TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 19

Immigration & Entrepreneurship

A special program held as part of “Welcoming Week” in Manchester, Elmira Bayrasli will speak about how hardship and marginalization may prove to be even greater “mothers of invention” in the 21st century than First World social and economic privilege. She is the author of, From the Other Side of the World: Extraordinary Entrepreneurs, Unlikely Places, which will be on sale courtesy of Gibson’s Bookstore.

*NH LINK: Did you know nearly 8 percent of the state’s business owners are foreign-born and $252 million in net business income is generated by immigrant businesses?

Location: Multi-purpose Room, UNH Manchester, 88 Commercial Street (Pandora Mill), Manchester

Free & Open to the Public. Advance registration requested online,
via email or by phone: 603.314.7970

Presented in partnership with UNH Manchester’s homeland security, history, humanities and politics and society programs

ABOUT ELMIRA BAYRASLI

Elmira Bayrasli works on entrepreneurship, global development, and foreign policy. She is the co-founder of Foreign Policy Interrupted and a lecturer at New York University. Bayrasli began her career at the State Department as an assistant to Madeleine Albright. From 2002 to 2005, she lived in Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina, where she was the chief spokesperson for the OSCE Mission. In 20016, Bayrasli joined Endeavor, a New York-based organization that supports global entrepreneurs. In 2011, she founded the World Policy Institute’s Global Entrepreneurial Project. Bayrasli has written for Foreign Affairs, the Wall Street Journal, Reuters, and the New York Times. She lives in Brooklyn, New York.