Among the Rescuers

As an emergency program coordinator with the International Rescue Committee, Kate Brown Sokol MPA ’10 has seen humanity at its worst—and at its best. Crises have taken her to the Congo, Ukraine, and, most recently, the Greek island of Lesbos, where she was one of the first IRC emergency responders to arrive with the charge of aiding a flood of refugees fleeing conflict in Syria. Here, her thoughts on what she experienced.