Persian.
Jewish.
American (per the United States Refugee Act of 1980)
The short of it:
Tabby Refael is a weekly editorial columnist for The Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles, as well as a contributor to Newsweek, Los Angeles Magazine, the Los Angeles Review of Books and other publications. Tabby served as co-founder and former executive director of 30 Years After, a non-partisan, non-profit that promotes the participation and leadership of Iranian-American Jews in American civic, political, and Jewish life. Named "a prominent chronicler of Persian L.A." by the Los Angeles Times, Tabby was born in post-revolutionary Iran and came to the U.S. as a refugee and child survivor of the Iran-Iraq War in the late 1980s. She holds a Master’s in Public Diplomacy from the University of Southern California (USC) and a Bachelor’s in Communication from UC San Diego.
