From There to Here: Tibetan refugee happy to finally have a country she can call home

Kalsang Doma, 33, came to Canada in 2001 as a Nepal-born Tibetan refugee after studying at a community college in Seattle, Wash. Her parents, who had a carpet business, were part of a wave of Tibetans who eventually settled in Nepal after the Chinese takeover. As a child, she studied at a Protestant boarding school in Mussoorie in northern India. In Canada, she worked in factories and as a motel cleaner. Today, now a Canadian citizen, she works as registered practical nurse at a geriatric psychiatric ward at a Toronto hospital. This interview has been edited and condensed.