Akhlaghi, Banafsheh

Banafsheh Akhlaghi is a pioneering civil and human rights attorney, educator and social entrepreneur. She has learned through her work how decisions we make globally affect us locally and has always worked to transform lives at all levels. She immigrated to the United States from her native Iran with her parents at the age of five. As a child, she sat at her father's side as he father recited poems of Hafez and other great poets, experiencing the magic and passion of the words and the sharing. Like her fellow countrymen, she too learned to engage the world on all levels through the living lang...