Becoming a Citizen of the Community: The Immigrant Story

It wasn’t enough for Prasenjit Tito Chowdhury to enroll in a prestigious U.S. engineering program, then land a job at Intel, one of Oregon’s most well-known employers.

No, after coming to America, the native of Bangladesh wanted more than simply working each day to pay his bills.

“I wanted to be a citizen of the community,” he says.

And he did that in a big way, by veering from engineering to a career in a totally different sector: fashion.

In 2012 he launched FashioNXT, an internationally recognized fashion showcase. The forum not only aims to be on the leading edge of fashion. It educates fashion goers about social issues ranging from immigration to the Black Lives Matter movement.

Read the story here: Becoming a Citizen of the Community