I first met Taddee in 5th grade. His family had just been resettled from an African refugee camp to Clarkston, GA. One of the biggest challenges for him and his four sisters was getting settled in their new school. Their time in formalized school up to this point had been fragmented and inconsistent, a reality of both life on the run and life in an under-resourced refugee camp. I first met Taddee in 5th grade. His family had just been resettled from an African refugee camp to Clarkston, GA. One of the biggest challenges for him and his four sisters was getting settled in their new school. Their time in formalized school up to this point had been fragmented and inconsistent, a reality of both life on the run and life in an under-resourced refugee camp. We met in an after-school tutoring program, and very early on in our friendship, I decided that I needed to visit his parents to get to know them, too.