Author: Emily Schroen

Emily serves as the Chief Development Officer for Americans for Ukraine, a global nonprofit supporting refugees in Poland, Ukraine, and beyond. She has a BA in international relations and psychology with a minor in Spanish, and has since worked in clinical mental health, nonprofit programming, and refugee resettlement. She completed the America's Future Spring Writing Fellows Program in 2022 and is now a Writing Fellow in the 2023 Young Voices Contributor Program.
By Emily Schroen • Sep 30,2022 ,

How a Child Sees War

Peter Burkard only knew about war for the first five years of his life. He remembers hiding in a German bomb shelter when the Nazis surrendered in 1945, and fearing...