Before coming to the United States, I was unaware that social justice was part of the content area in psychology. During my search for counseling psychology programs, I was struck by the fact that counseling psychology in particular drops the ball on multiculturalism and social justice. My educational and personal/social experiences in the United States have spurred my personal journey to conceptualize my past life and current position in terms of power and privilege and cultural awareness and sensitivity. Ultimately, my perspective changed irrevocably. First of all, coming to the United States meant I lost some of my privileges, such as language skills and the benefits of citizenship. Suddenly I was a woman of color. At first I didn't know that I was a minority as an international student. My first eye-opening experience was in my ESL program at the University of Delaware. An instructor asked us to choose a race category. I asked her what Caucasian means and she said it means "White". Then I said “so I'm Caucasian, my skin is white”. Then, he said, “No, you are Asian (I never consider myself Asian).” I remember how remorseful I felt. More than anything, what hurt me was that someone assigned me a category and decided who I was. At the time, I didn't know that “whiteness” was more of a social construct than a color. Then, I noticed that in my country I have the privilege of defining myself. In my personal journey, my effort has been to apply my new realizations to my previous perceptions, in turn gaining insights into the experience of minorities in my country. For decades, for example, the Kurdish people and other minorities have been marginalized and accused of creating divisions. Unlike many Kurdish violence, especially of refugees. We should look at this disadvantaged group not only through the clinical lens, but also through social justice, which is incorporated into the field of psychological counseling. My next step is to connect with Boston refugee centers to familiarize myself with their issues in person, participate in community service activities, and make connections for future research. To implement the social justice framework, the very foundation of the discipline of counseling psychology, we must be part of social activism and seek to reduce social barriers against refugees and immigrants (and other marginalized groups) through publication, research and the practice. Therefore, I feel responsible for using theory, research, and clinical practice as platforms toward social justice applications for underserved populations and, ultimately, for social transformation..