The Translator Who Moved In

In 2018, Dr. Sarah Shin left her tenured position at Georgetown University to move into a refugee apartment complex in Clarkston, Georgia — a town sometimes called "the most diverse square mile in America." She spoke fluent Dari, Arabic, and Burmese. She could have translated documents from a comfortable office downtown. Instead, she signed a lease on a two-bedroom unit between a family from Afghanistan and a mother from Myanmar.…