In this week’s Immigration Nerds podcast, we talk to Lieutenant Colonel Mona Johnson, the first immigrant, Arab-Muslim woman to serve in the US Armed Forces and achieve the rank of lieutenant colonel. In this conversation, Johnson recounts the story of her new memoir, Not Created Equal: An Immigrant Muslim Woman’s Pursuit of Equality in her Family, the Army and America, and her experience escaping a politically divided Egypt, living in exile in Saudi Arabia, immigrating to the US, assimilating into American culture, and the unending discrimination she and her family faced.