Presented with the Center for Social Impact and Pathways to Afghan Girls’ Education & Advocacy

Lucy Ferris, the co-founder and President of the Board of the Afghan Female Student Outreach (AFSO) will present the work of the non-profit which is committed to helping return Afghan women to intellectual and professional life. The work is done through real-time, synchronous distance learning in the liberal arts and sciences, engineering, and health sciences, taught by university professors from around the world, including Fairfield University. AFSO aims to educate university women at all levels who seek an academic bridge between their current situation and eventual enrollment in a degree-granting institution online or outside Afghanistan. Our long-term goal is to help educate the future leaders of Afghanistan, who will have the education and experience they need to help restore their country, and especially its women, if and when the regime changes. AFSO is committed to recruiting and educating women from both dominant and underrepresented communities within Afghanistan.

Lucy Ferriss, will be joined on stage by Dr. Sonya Huber who has collaborated closely with AFSO, Maryam Gharmal ’26, and Grace Lannigan ’25.