In this episode, our host Dana interviews Azra Jafari. Azra Jafari, Afghanistan’s first female mayor, was born in 1978 in the Ghor province of Afghanistan. She joined the Research Committee of Secretariats for the Afghanistan Constitution Commission and her team helped commissioners draft a new constitution for Afghanistan in 2004. Later, in December of 2008, Azra Jafari made history by becoming Afghanistan's first female mayor in Nili, the capital of Daikundi province. As mayor, Azra put great efforts into bringing positive change to the city's infrastructure, public service, and women’s rights. She obtained a midwifery diploma from I.H.S Kabul in 2006 and studied at the Nonviolence and Peace Studies center at the University of Rhode Island from 2015-2016. She also wrote a book on the rights of Afghan women in the labor market titled “I’m a woman worker,” and was a co-writer for, “The New Afghanistan Constitution.” Today Azra continues to support and advocate for women, Afghan refugees, and Hazara communities all around the globe. 

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