Anna Crosslin, CEO International Institute, talks citizenship with refugees

Anna Crosslin is one of two people that Missouri Governor Jay Nixon has nominated to the Missouri Commission on Human Rights. On Monday’s “St. Louis on the Air,” host Don Marsh talked with Crosslin, the CEO of the International Institute of St. Louis, about her experience for such a role.

“It fits in with my personal and my public roles, from the point of view that it makes sense,” Crosslin said. “What we do at the International Institute and what I’ve had a lifelong mission to do is to work toward ensuring equity for people who may, for a variety of reasons, be disenfranchised. This is certainly because of language, cultural issues, etc., not just for foreign born but everyone may in fact have difficulties with a system that may not be really well thought-through and operate in a way where people have that equity.”

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