Tea RozmanDr. Rozman was born and raised in Yugoslavia. She was in high school when the country began to break up resulting in decades of wars and unrest. As a teen, she began working in the refugee camps for Bosnian Muslim (Bosniak) people. In 1997, she movedto the US after receiving the George Soros-Open Society Institute's scholarship to study at the University of Wisconsin, Eau Claire. In 2004, she received Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship and Graduate Assistantship at the New York University where she obtained her M.A. in Near and Middle Eastern Studies. In 2005 she returned home, and enrolled in the Ph.D. program in the field of Cultural History, specializing in oral history at the University of Nova Gorica. Her Ph.D. thesis focused on the oral history collection, which included the accounts of the Bosniak survivors of the Srebrenica genocide of 1995, as well as the Dutch UN peacekeepers who tried to protect them.In 2012, Dr. Rozman moved to Minneapolis, MN and months later co-founded Green Card Voices, an organization that combats stereotypes by empowering immigrants to tell their stories. Using the oral history methodology she and her team recorded and shared the stories of over 500 immigrants and refugees coming from 150 countries and living in Minnesota, North Dakota, Wisconsin, New York, California and Georgia. She is the editor of ten books--most award-winning collections of first-person immigrant stories. Dr Rozman is committed to trauma-informed work, empowerment of immigrants and refugees, creating brave spaces, social entrepreneurship and immigrant leadership. She is the 2015-2017 Archibald and Edyth Bush Fellow, and 2022-2023 Oral History Association and National Endowment for Humanities Fellow.
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