the feather thief by kirk wallace johnson

Over the subsequent eight years, the List Project helped over 2,000 U.S.-affiliated Iraqis resettle to America. In response, he was flooded with petitions from thousands of refugees, leading him to found the List Project to Resettle Iraqi Allies, a non-profit that marshaled hundreds of attorneys from the nations top law firms to represent their cases on a pro bono basis. In December 2006, he wrote an op-ed for the 'Los Angeles Times' calling upon the government to open its doors to these allies. After returning from Iraq with PTSD, he was contacted by his former Iraqi colleagues, who were running for their lives as a result of working for the U.S. Johnson was opposed to the Iraq War, but felt an ethical obligation to help with the reconstruction efforts, which he supported as a way of righting a wrong. In addition to studying in Syria on a Foreign Language Acquisition Grant (2001), Johnson received a Fulbright Scholarship to conduct research on political Islamism in Egypt (2002–03). He graduated from the University of Chicago in 2002, with a degree in Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations.

As a fifteen-year-old, Johnson visited Egypt with his grandmother, and began studying Arabic in evening classes at the College of DuPage, skipping his high school graduation to attend the Arabic Language Institute at the American University in Cairo. Johnson, was a policy advisor to the Illinois Attorney General. Johnson, served several terms as a Republican State Representative and Senator, and his mother, Virginia L. Johnson was born in West Chicago, Illinois. Agency for International Development regional coordinator for reconstruction in Fallujah, Iraq in 2005. Kirk Wallace Johnson is an American author, journalist, and founder of The List Project, a not-for-profit organization that helps resettle Iraqi refugees who previously worked for the U.S. Johnson at the American Academy in Berlin, Fall 2010.

The feather thief by kirk wallace johnson