Dale Buscher is Director of Protection at the Women's Refugee Commission, a New York-based advocacy organization. He leads the organization's work on refugee livelihoods, disabilities, displaced out-of-school youth, gender and UN advocacy.

Buscher has been working in the refugee assistance field since 1988 in a variety of capacities. Dale worked with Vietnamese boat people in the Philippines and later with Haitian refugees interned at Guantanamo Bay. He has worked with displaced Kurds in Northern Iraq, with Bosnian refugees in Croatia and with Kosovars in Albania and in Kosovo. He was Director of Operations for the International Catholic Migration Commission in Geneva and has worked as a consultant for UNHCR.

Buscher earned his Master's degree in Social Work from the University of Utah and earned a Bachelors of Science degree from Iowa State University. He lives in Manhattan.

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