Staff

Parvin Hashemi

Parvin Hashemi

Parvin Hashemi is a Bilingual Education Case Aide at HIAS PA. She started in June 2022.

In this role, Parvin Hashemi supports and helps newly arrived families with school enrollment and learning about the US school system also helps to support youth programming that provides language and social-emotional support to newly arrived refugee youth.

Parvin graduated from university with a degree in Economics. Her work experience is with international organizations in Afghanistan such as Aga Khan Foundation Network, Bayat Media Group, 1 TV, United State Institute of Peace, and GIZ, and has worked in the social sectors of gender equality, contribution and roles of women in government projects, poverty, women empowerment, and conflict resolution and peacebuilding, and also in the economics sectors of TV and radio marketing and advertising management. Parvin is the author of “Family Economy – Clothing”.

Parvin hopes that all new immigrants to the US achieve their high academic dreams and live successfully in PEACE!

TONIGHT (4/20) - Join us ONLINE at the 2023 Golden Door Awards!

Join us ONLINE at 6:45PM TONIGHT, Thursday, April 20th, for HIAS PA's 2023 Golden Door Awards: United for Immigrants!

Happy Passover from HIAS Pennsylvania!HIAS PA is closed in observance of the Jewish holiday of Passover

HIAS Pennsylvania will be closed in observance of the Jewish holiday of Passover from 1PM on Wednesday, April 5th through Friday, April 7th, and on Wednesday, April 12th and Thursday, April 13th.

Join us at the 2023 Golden Door Awards!United for Immigrants

The Golden Door Awards is HIAS Pennsylvania's annual fundraiser. Your generous support helps us serve low-income immigrants from all over the world as they build new lives in our community.

Building closed until further noticeHIAS PA remains open!

HIAS PA’s physical offices at 600 Chestnut Street are CLOSED until further notice due to a burst pipe in the building.

Our organization remains open, and HIAS PA staff continue to work remotely at this time.

Please call (215) 832-0900 with any questions.

Building closed until further noticeHIAS PA remains open!

HIAS PA’s physical offices at 600 Chestnut Street are CLOSED until further notice due to a burst pipe in the building.

Our organization remains open, and HIAS PA staff continue to work remotely at this time.

Please call (215) 832-0900 with any questions.

TONIGHT: Join us at the table!Join us for Thankful Together!

Thankful Together, formerly known as Refugee Thanksgiving, is happening TONIGHT at 6PM!

Register here to join us tonight: https://hiaspa1.wpengine.com/event/thankful-together-2021/

Celebrate our volunteers who make this all possible!Click here at 11:45AM to join our Annual Meeting!

Click here to join our virtual Annual Meeting!

The Annual Meeting starts at noon, but join us at 11:45AM for an informal chat before the event!

POSTPONED! Speed Advocacy: Afghanistan

Today's Speed Advocacy: Afghanistan Facebook Live event has been postponed due to a worldwide Facebook outage. We will update you as soon as possible about rescheduling the event.