Liyah Babayan, She Gave Me Hope
Sometimes the universe gives you chance meetings that remind you there are good people in the world. @boisesocialite and I were in Twin Falls and stepped into the darling shop @oohlalaconsignment and discovered it was owned by Liyah Babayan! - author of “LIMINAL - A refugee Memoir” You may remember @liyahbabayan spoke at @wassmuthcenter this summer on “Stages of Genocide”. This woman is an incredible inspiration.
Liyah is the founder of MAKEPEACE (an organic, potato skincare line) pledging to donate soap to displaced people for every product sold. With a passion to give back to her adoptive country, Liyah served on the Twin Falls School Board, and was the first refugee to run for City Council and State Representative in Idaho. Liyah was recognized as one of Idaho’s Women of the Year in 2015 and 2020, received the ACLU’s Civil Rights Service Award, the Hometown Hero award, the Governor’s “Extra Mile” award and was featured in The New York Times. Her book “Liminal, a refugee memoir” was published in 2018. In this work she documents her family’s survival of the ethnic killings of Armenians in Baku, Azerbaijan.
I’m excited to finally read it.
I’m so happy to have met you Liyah. You gave me a lot of hope in our short conversation.
LIYAHBABAYAN.COM
