Dr Isaac

I discovered my calling while writing my doctoral dissertation, when I found a passion in my heart for immigrant women, specifically those from Middle Eastern countries who are straddling between two cultures. This personal connection runs deep because I was a child immigrant myself, and my doctoral journey awakened me to realizations about why we make decisions the way we do, often tied to trauma that hasn't been realized or addressed. I direct university students in their career paths, working with over 800 students across the country through an online university. I have conversations with them all day long to understand their backgrounds and guide them not just toward successful careers, but to become successful individuals in their lives and learn how they can contribute to their communities and grow with that in their future. My main focus is on women from Middle Eastern countries and the layers of trauma they carry, which they often endure in silence. I work with a nonprofit that educates our communities on genocides, where I specifically focus on women. I've conducted extensive interviews with women and have written about child immigrants, women immigrants, and men, exploring how they all resettle and assimilate or integrate differently. When I interview women for my work, four of them started crying and said they didn't know why because they had told their story hundreds of times before, but asking the right questions really resonates with them and awakens something inside that has been suppressed. My greatest reward comes when my students turn around and say thank you, that they had no idea, that they never thought about something I shared, and then seeing them succeed.