Sasha Chanoff

Cognoscenti contributor

Sasha Chanoff is the founder and CEO of RefugePoint, a humanitarian organization that finds lasting solutions for the world's most at-risk refugees and supports the humanitarian community to do the same. He is the co-author of From Crisis to Calling: Finding Your Moral Center in the Toughest Decisions, a board member of Network of Engaged International Donors (NEID) Global, and the recipient of numerous awards including the Charles Bronfman Prize.

Recently published

In some African countries, Scrabble is more than a game — it's a sport. Here, a Senegalese player sits in front of his board during a competition. (Seyllou/AFP via Getty Images)

My time with the Scrabble kings of Liberia

Like many refugees adrift in the world today, the Liberians Sasha Chanoff met in Ivory Coast were not allowed to work, and for most there was no school. With nothing...

What gets lost in the immigration debate

Recent studies have tallied how much the surge in immigration has contributed to the U.S. economy, reduced the federal deficit and potentially, headed off a recession, writes Sasha Chanoff. The...

Helping refugees settle in the US, one family at a time

Private sponsorship is a pathway to bring in people who may be fleeing war, violence and persecution. This approach, recently expanded by President Biden, could ease some of our country’s...

Millions of people have fled Ukraine. We need a plan to reunite families

We are witnessing the largest wartime separation of families in living memory, writes Sasha Chanoff. Millions more will be displaced by Russia's maniacal aggression, unless it stops now.

Biden's Plan To Resettle More Refugees Will Ease The Crisis At The Border

Increasing resettlement from Latin America to the U.S. will prevent people from taking great risks to reach our border, write Sasha Chanoff and Ed Shapiro.

While We're Shunning Refugees, Canada Is Welcoming Them

There are 70 million displaced people worldwide, writes Sasha Chanoff, and the old ways of helping -- giving refugees tents, food and aid -- don't work anymore.

The Fate Of Refugee Families Is In America’s Hands

A modern-day kindertransport could reunite thousands of refugee children with their parents, writes Sasha Chanoff. But Trump's drastic cuts to the refugee resettlement program will deny those essential reunions.

Cognoscenti

Oct 4, 2019

A Syrian refugee, who agreed to be photographed on condition of anonymity because of fear of retaliation against family living in Syria, poses for a portrait on Wednesday, Nov. 18, 2015, at the Muslim Association of Lehigh Valley in Whitehall, Pa. Dozens of Syrian refugee families are being resettled in the Allentown, Pa., area in part because the city is already home to one of the nation's largest population of Syrians, who began settling here in the late 1800s. (Matt Rourke/ AP)

Refugee Resettlement: How It Works, And Why We Do It

We are not compromising our own security by allowing Syrian refugees to resettle to the U.S. We are doing what’s right.

Cognoscenti

Dec 4, 2015