We all have one (or many) of those friends. That friend who can’t sing, act, or dance and yet still declares a theatre major in college. If you’re like me, you experience a horrible sinking feeling and get a doe-eyed look on your face when they tell you the news. You really, really want to be happy for your friend, but you’re convinced they’ll never get a job, and they certainly won’t be making it on Broadway in this century. That sinking feeling associated with my friends coming out of the theatre-major closet, is the same sinking feeling I get when my Yazidi refugee friends talk about gaining asylum status or resettling in a new country. Even now that I am no longer working directly in the camp, my Yazidi friends send me WhatsApp and Facebook messages about their hope of being reunited with their families in Canada, Germany, or Iraq on a daily basis. It's terrifying to know that most of them will not realize their dream - at least not in the next several years. ...