Recent UW grad, an Afghan Kurdish poet, wins $90,000 scholarship for immigrants with exceptional potential For news media
Through poetry, Hajjar Baban has found her voice and her calling.
Her chosen field, she says, allows her to “be honest about my understanding of the world while changing and imagining new ways of being.”
Hajjar Baban
The 2020 UW–Madison graduate already has achieved considerable success. She’s now poised for more.
Baban has been named one of 30 recipients of a 2021 Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowship for New Americans, a merit-based graduate school program for immigrants and children of immigrants. She was chosen from a pool of 2,445 applicants, the most in the program’s history.