However Tall the Mountain: A Dream, Eight Girls, and a Journey Home

Awista Ayub

In 1979, when Awista Ayub was only two years old, her family fled Afghanistan for the United States, where Awista flourished, thanks to organized athletics--and where she vowed to make a difference in her home country some day. Soon after the fall of the Taliban, Awista saw her chance: She founded the A...