Articles by Staff

  Interview with Preye Cobham, Attorney and Legal Advisor, Women Watch Afrika, Inc. and Mohammed Paktiawal and Saeed Saeedullah, current participants of the Women Watch Afrika Men's Violence Prevention Program, discussing what the WWA Program has means to them and what it has taught them about violence prevention, nutrition, and knowing their legal rights.  Interview between the current participants is being conducted in Pashto.

  Part One;  Interview with Glory Kilanko, Founder and Executive Director of Women Watch Afrika, Inc. and Hatem Alsudani and Noureldin Adam, current participants of the Women Watch Afrika Men's Violence Prevention Program,  speaking on the many different things the WWA Program has taught them about violence prevention, nutrition, and knowing their legal rights.  Interview between the current participants is being conducted in Arabic.

Interview with Muna Abubakar, Former local student turned Dekalb County ESOL teacher shares her journey and inspiration for becoming a teacher and how teaching at the International Student Center makes her story unique. Join us as we take a look into education in the international community.

OPEN Atlanta and Sagal Radio have partnered up to provide mentorship services to high school, college and graduate level students from the Clarkston community.  The group held a workshop on Sunday, July 29 to talk through general professionalism skills with mentors from the community, working in industries including healthcare, law and many individuals from start-up and tech-based companies.  

In this special interview, Dr. Hodan Ahmed shares her childhood memories, coming to Clarkston with her parents who were refugees in the early 1980s. Sagal Radio interviewed her while she attended Clarkston High School, and she now comes back to us 'full circle' to talk about what led to her becoming a successful, practicing physician at a leading medical institution in metro-Atlanta. She also offers insights and useful advice to youth that are pursuing a similar career. 

February 4th, 2018 OPEN Atlanta and Sagal Radio partnered up to provide mentorship services to college and masters students from the Clarkston community. The session started with a story from Armir Harris, an Albanian refugee whose family immigrated from Albania to Atlanta as political refugees seeking asylum. He told his journey which detailed his path from a homeless shelter all the way to growing a $12 million logistics business. 

Leila Ibrahim a student at Clarksotn High School interviewing Dr. Harjee Co-founder of Community Health Center. Dr. Harjee Discussed about her childhood and amazing story of how she became a Medical Dr. 

Interview with Stacey Abrams, a candidate for governor of Georgia. She formerly served in Georgia's general assembly and was its House minority leader

Local non-profit Refuge Coffee and owner Kitti Murray just made a big commitment to Clarkston—they bought the property at the corner of Market St. and Ponce de Leon, known for the past two years by the iconic bright red Refuge Coffee truck. From renting part of the property and open just two days a week, to now owning the plot of land and operating a catering truck as well as the six-day-a-week coffee truck, Murray talks to Sagal about Refuge Coffee's growing mission to provide not only coffee, tea and snacks, but also job opportunities and training.  Murray also wants the community to remember that their name is Ref-uge (providing shelter), not refu-gee (someone forced to leave their home).