Fatu Gayflor Named Pew Fellow

Fatu Gayflor (LTA '12) was awarded $60,000 as a 2014 Arts and Culture Pew Fellow. A successful recording artist in her native land Liberia, Gayflor now lives in the Philadelphia area. She writes and performs songs that address the refugee experience and the shared history of Liberians at home and abroad. 

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