Former Fellow Tyrone Turner (Brazil, 1998-2000) took the pictures that were featured in an article published by WAMU regarding the anger and vows of resistance to President Trump’s decision to “unwind an Obama-era program that offers legal protections to some immigrants brought here illegally as children.” Click here for the article. […]
Former Fellow Pramila Jayapal (India, 1994-1996) was featured in a podcast published by The Stranger regarding her outrage at President Trump’s decision to end the Obama-era “Dreamer” program. She also discusses “how Democrats in Congress plan to push back.” Click here to listen to the podcast. […]
Former Fellow Pramila Jayapal (India, 1994-1996) was the focus of an article published by Broadly. Jayapal talked to Broadly about shutting down belittling comments from male colleagues. Click here for the full article. […]
Former Fellow Pramila Jayapal (India, 1994-1996) published an article for Cosmopolitan regarding President Trump’s termination of the Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program. Jayapal states that deporting the “Dreamers” would be a betrayal of our American values. Click here to read the full article. […]
Former Fellow Shannon Sims (Brazil, 2012-2014) published an article for the New York Times about a victory for environmental activists. A federal judge in Brazil has temporarily halted a plan by President Michel Temer to allow mining in a large area of the Amazon forest, dealing a victory to environmental activists who had denounced the […]
Former Fellow Andrew Rice (Uganda, 2002-2004) was featured in a podcast with Slate regarding Felix Sater, “the latest character in Trump’s Russia affair.” The episode of Trumpcast discusses Sater and his significance in Robert Mueller’s investigation. Click here to listen to the podcast. […]
Former Fellow Suzy Hansen (Turkey, 2007-2009) was interviewed by Hurriyet Daily News regarding her book “Notes on a Foreign Country,” in which she turns her attention to her home country. The book “examines the dark side of U.S. engagement in the world, giving a searing critique of American amnesia and the belief in the ‘inherent […]
Former Fellow Pramila Jayapal (India, 1994-1996) was featured in an article published by Q13 Fox regarding the dinner she held on September 4 welcoming local DACA recipients to her office in downtown Seattle as part of a nationwide Dreamer Dinners Campaign. Jayapal’s conference table was turned dinner table on Labor Day discussing the impacts of […]
Former Fellow Pramila Jayapal (India, 1994-1996) was featured in an article published by the Seattle Patch. The article states that local Democrats and a Republican quickly condemned President Donald Trump’s decision to repeal DACA Tuesday. Click here for the article. […]
Former Fellow Robbie Corey-Boulet (West Africa, 2014-2016) published an article for WPR about how the fall of Gambian dictator Yahya Jammeh earlier this year was seen as another sign of strengthening democratic rule in West Africa. In addition to Jammeh, “the longtime president of Burkina Faso, Blaise Compaore, was forced to leave office in 2014 […]