Tim Doherty is CEO of Refugee Welcome Corporation. This is a mid career culmination, integration, and continuation of study and employment, twenty years of academic and professional efforts, punctuated by a series of migrant life and work experiences. It started with a ‘gap year’ in Crete, Greece in ’89-’90, followed by in Mexico, ’04-’06, and then China, ’10-’11. These gave Doherty a broad understanding of and deep engagement with the changing global economy on the personal and community levels from the end of the Cold War to today. Along the way, Doherty has learned the proper responses to and prevention of destabilization and displacement, local and global, are pragmatic ones, the capacity to welcome and provide hospitality to the stranger.