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  • Experiential Learning: PBPL 85 Global Policy Leadership

    November 26, 2018

    The course is in its six iteration, with past topics covering: economic reform in India (2013), the peace process in Northern Ireland (2014), the U.S. role in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict (2015), civil society in the Ukraine (2016), and Liberia 2030: A Political and Economic Roadmap (2017). This year the topic is the Colombia peace accords signed in 2016. Students will spend two weeks in Bogota in early December for field research.

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  • Shasti Conrad on Activism and Institutional Change

    November 20, 2018

    An inspiring speaker and activist in her own right, Shasti Conrad has an impressive background of working with three Nobel Peace Prize winners, President Barack, Malala Yousafzai, and Kailash Satyarthi. She now works as the U.S. campaign manager for the 100 Million Campaign, a youth mobilization effort to end child labor and trafficking.

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  • A Lively Conversation with Endgame CEO Nate Fick ’99

    November 9, 2018

    During the event, students heard Mr. Fick’s advice on leadership and navigating a successful career. He shared his key takeaways from the three main phases of his career: the military world, the non-profit world, and the for-profit or corporate world.

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  • Character in Politics with Ramesh Ponnuru, Visiting Fellow, AEI

    November 6, 2018

    “I think that the generational shift in the use of technology is, of course, going to have major consequences for how we process questions of political scandal. On the one hand, it will create more material for people to go through and sometimes to exploit. On the other hand, the frame of reference will shift.” Things that were once considered “extremely weird to people” at one time may become increasingly normalized.

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  • A Conversation with Sheila Bair and Peter Fisher

    October 26, 2018

    Sheila Bair was chair of the FDIC during the Great Recession of 2008. Her conversation with Professor Fisher touched on indicators of economic growth and decline, structural economic changes that may have set the stage for the 2008 meltdown, and mistakes made in the aftermath.

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