Mia Strubel Iram ‘25 is a sophomore and current fellow with the Carleton College Center for Community and Civic Engagement (CCCE) in the Peace, Conflict, and Democracy issue area. She also represents Carleton College as a 2023-2024 Campus Compact Newman Civic Fellow. She is particularly interested in the power of dialogue as a strategy for addressing social issues and bridging polarized divisions, whether ideological, religious, or cultural. Mia has exercised tremendous leadership both on campus and in the local community, including leading the college’s new collaboration with WAANO, a nonprofit providing support to Somali refugee youth in our rural community; co-facilitating a campus dialogue entitled “Does my vote really matter?”; serving as a trained dialogue facilitator through Students Engaging in Essential Dialogue (SEED) program; and participating in interfaith dialogue through the Council for Religious Understanding. Mia has been committed to this work for some time, including through her pre-college engagement with Hands of Peace, an Israeli-Palestinian dialogue program.