Nerina Muzurovic is currently a PhD candidate in the Department of Germanic Studies at the University of Chicago. As a scholar in the humanities, with an avid interest in human rights, mental health, and cultural anthropology, she has been working on various projects with refugee families and youth, approaching different ways in which to address their twofold challenge in integrating their past traumas, while consequently having to define their new identity across two cultures. In the past three years, she has contributed to CAFES intervention program for refugee families, focusing on ethnographic study as a qualitative means to document the narrative of trauma and suffering that refugee communities face in view of their shattering experiences of war survival, displacement, and migration. Nerina also served as one of the co-investigators in the Living Histories project. She is currently interested in the teen refugees’ experience of social and cultural marginalization that has not been adequately addressed by existing educational, social, and mental health services. In response to this critical need, she is designing and coordinating a visual ethnography initiative for refugee youth, HOME (Houses of Memory and Expectations), taking place in the summer 2004.