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Thank you. Thanks so much. This is Our Body Politic.

I'm the creator and host, Farai Chidea.

This week we explore questions of identity, what it means to be black in the U.S.

and how young voters feel about the two-party system.

First, we want to cover yet another angle of the migration crisis, the refugees coming from

Afghanistan.

The Biden-Harris administration began informing governors this fall about the Afghan evacuees that would be

resettling in the states. Nonprofits and individual citizens have been taking on the efforts to

support them at the local level.

Cecilia Munoz is a senior advisor at New America, former director of the White House Domestic

Policy Council under Obama,

and former vice president of the National Council of La Raza, now called Unidos U.S.

She was recognized with the MacArthur Fellowship in 2000 for her work on immigration and civil rights.

Today she's turning her political know-how to the Afghan refugee crisis.

She co-chairs welcome.us, a website that connects people to the process of resettling newcomers.

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