The American Immigration Law Foundation's Curriculum Center recently hosted the 5^th Annual Washington, D.C. Symposium "Appreciating America's Heritage: Teaching Children about Immigration." Focused on African immigration and community, the symposium featured distinguished speakers from the Smithsonian Institute, the African Immigration and Refugee Foundation, teachers from area K-12 schools and activist/author Mary Williams, founder of the Lost Boys Foundation.

Although the focus was primarily on African migration, the Curriculum Center's mission to promote a better understanding of immigrants and immigration by providing educational resources that inspire people to engage in thoughtful dialogue, creative teaching, and critical thinking was well served. Teachers and community leaders not only learned the history of immigration, immigration curriculum and the immigration experience, but heard firsthand about the lives and experiences of two young African immigrants attending high school in the Washington D.C.