Shegofa Ibrahimi is one of nine Afghan undergraduates from Bangladesh-based Asian University for Women who fled their country after the Taliban took control in August 2021 and who were recently admitted as Cornell students with full financial aid. Shegofa is a second-year student in the Nolan School of Hotel Administration. “If I have the chance to go back to Afghanistan,” she said, “I will establish a big hotel in central Kabul, and all the personnel will be women. And the men will see that the women can do this.”
