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The First Country He Traveled To Became Home

After years working with the U.S. mission in Afghanistan, Shah came to the United States through the Special Immigrant Visa pathway, continued public-service work and began building a life in the country he had first encountered through people working in Kabul.

The story

What happened—and what it changed.

The move to the United States did not end the earlier story. It created a place to study it, test it against policy and institutions, and turn lived experience into public service and an organization other people could enter.