Elfidar Iltebir and Bill Clark - Boarding Schools, Concentration Camps & the Uyghur Genocide

Elfidar was born in Urumchi, East Turkistan and grew up in Istanbul, Turkey until immigrating to the U.S. in 2000. She has over 20 years of marketing and project management experience, has taught the Uyghur language to U.S. government employees, and as the daughter of a prominent Uyghur writer and journalist, is an active member of the Uyghur community and an outspoken human rights activist.  

Bill is a peacebuilder and Program Director at Peace Catalyst and heads an initiative of Peace Catalyst called the Uyghur Wellness Initiative, providing free mental wellness support to Uyghurs in North America who are experiencing secondhand and vicarious trauma from the genocide happening against their people and their family members overseas.

 

LINKS:

Uyghur American Association: https://www.uyghuraa.org/

Bill Clark (Contact him or support his work at Peace Catalyst): https://www.peacecatalyst.org/billclark

Uyghur Wellness Initiative: https://www.peacecatalyst.org/uyghur-wellness-initiative

Emily Feng’s reporting on NPR: https://www.npr.org/2022/09/16/1123536630/the-black-gate-a-uyghur-familys-story-part-1

BBC Where Are My Children?: https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-asia-china-48873934

Uyghur Human Rights Project: https://uhrp.org/

Campaign for Uyghurs: https://campaignforuyghurs.org/

SaveUighur.org: https://www.saveuighur.org/

 

Edited by Nicole Gibson

Music: Soulmates by Yigit Atilla

Support the podcast: https://www.peacecatalyst.org/peacemaking-podcast