Join Us In Celebration of the Mayor’s United Nations Day – Monday October 24, 2016

Join The UMKC Truman Center for a Student Session held at the National Archives at Kansas City, where you can visit one-on-one with Shelly Pitterman, Regional Representative for the USA and the Caribbean for UNHCR, the UN’s refugee agency.  Event begins at 3:30 PM and will conclude at 5:00 PM.

Location: National Archives at Kansas City, 400 W. Pershing Road, Kansas City, MO 64108 (located immediately west of Union Station; parking is free)

Guest Speaker:  Mr. Shelly Pitterman, Regional Representative for the USA and the Caribbean for UNHRC, the UN’s refugee agency.

Mr. Pitterman, the son of Holocaust survivors and refugees, has firsthand knowledge of the unique challenges of refugees, an issue that has captured the world’s attention and directly impacted Kansas City in 2016. Pitterman will discuss the global refugee crisis with the Greater Kansas City community at this student session. He is the UNHCR Regional Representative for the USA and the Caribbean. He joined UNHCR in 1984 and served in Yei, Sudan (1984-1988); Headquarters Geneva on the Somalia Desk (1988-1990); N’zerekore, Guinea (1990-1992); and as the UNHCR Representative in Burundi (1992-1995). During his four year tenure as the Chief of UNHCR’s Resettlement Section, the Annual Tripartite Consultations on Resettlement began.Top of Form