Finding Refuge in the Wild

A part of Colorado’s growing refugee population, Muna Oweidat went backpacking for the first time on a NOLS expedition for MBA students. She says that nature is the “place I go to reenergize and connect with life, just like when I was a kid but with more freedom and attention.”

“A childhood of summer weekend picnics with her family and days playing on her family dunam (a 1,000-square plot of family land) in Jordan didn’t quite prepare Muna Oweidat for her first backpacking experience—an intense NOLS program, part of her MBA degree, that took her across the Continental Divide.

Looking back, the data analyst appreciates the nature and power of the community she found. Now, Muna has rooted her newfound love of the outdoors firmly in the mountains and climbing.”

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