A Living Hero: Luma Mufleh

Luma Mufleh is founder and director of Fugees Family, Inc ("The Fugees”). The Fugees is a non-profit organization devoted to working with child survivors of war. Mufleh founded Fugees Family in 2006 and is currently head coach of the Fugees soccer teams. She has received numerous awards, including the Search for Common Ground Award, the Martin Luther King Jr. Community Service Award, and the Smith College Medal for her work. She has appeared in NPR, CNN, MSNBC, and The New York Times.

• Luma Mufleh was born March 1, 1975 in Amman, Jordan.
• She left Jordan to attend Smith College in Northampton , Massachusetts in 1993.
• Mufleh graduated from Smith in 1997 with a B.A. in Anthropology.
• She moved from Northampton to Boston to North Carolina to Atlanta, while working as a waitress, cook, grocery stock clerk, an office worker for a charity, and a freelance website designer.
• After she arrived in Atlanta, she started Ashton's, a coffee shop and café, and coached girls’ soccer before founding the Fugees in 2006.

Luma Mufleh in Action

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