2/23/2019: Sama Wareh the Trailblazer
Trailblazing: Sama Wareh shares her unique story 2/23/2019 By Helen Deverell '19, Global Scholar candidate (photo by Diego Jaime '19, Global Scholar candidate) Artist, naturalist, filmmaker, humanitarian, and California transplant Sama Wareh shared her experience providing aid to refugees in Lebanon as she spoke to students and faculty from Flintridge Prep, Westridge, and Poly. Wareh, a professor of environmental education at Cal State Fullerton, credits her late uncle, a homeopathic healer, with having been the first to instill in her a love for plants, animals, spirit, and life. One central tenet of homeopathy can be summarized as “the body knows what it is doing,” a sentiment closely aligned with Wareh’s belief that sometimes taking action is something you are compelled to do. “Nothing is as important,” she says, “as just starting somewhere.” As a child, Wareh and her family often visited Damascus, the capital of Syria. These trips to Syria were ones she remem...