Former Fellow Robbie Corey-Boulet (West Africa, 2014-2016) released a podcast with WPR discussing the implications of political violence in Charlottesville, Virginia for U.S. soft power abroad. Click here to listen to the podcast. […]
Former Fellow Tyrone L. Turner photographed an article with Ally Schweitzer for WAMU 88.5 about longtime D.C. activist Susan Meehan, who recounts her experiences through poetry. Click here for the full article. […]
Former Fellow Shannon Sims (Brazil, 2012-2014) wrote an article for the Washington Post (Aug 18, 2017) about the closing of the State University of Rio de Janeiro. The school, which has the reputation for being one of the best universities in the country and has done the most to address educational inequality in Rio, has closed […]
Former Fellow Shannon Sims (Brazil, 2012-2014) wrote an article for The Guardian about how climate change will seriously affect the lives of people living in Cameron Parish, Louisiana. Despite the fact that Cameron may be the first place swamped by rising sea levels in the US, many of the residents still are not convinced about climate […]
In an article for Slate, Isaac Chotiner recounts his conversation with Hansen regarding her experiences detailed in her book, Notes on a Foreign Country: An American Abroad in a Post-American World. Click here to read the full article. […]
Former fellow and current ICWA trustee Joel Millman (1987-1989, El Salvador) was interviewed by Ari Sharpiro of NPR’s All Things Considered. Millman, spokesman for the International Organization for Migration, shed light on smugglers off the coast of Yemen. In this last week, smugglers have threw “as many as 280 migrants into the waters off the coast […]
Check out former ICWA Fellow Robbie Corey-Boulet (West Africa, 2012-2014) in World Politics Review with his new article titled “Will Zimbabwe’s Latest Opposition Alliance Outdo Its Predecessors?” Click here for the article! Note: This article exists behind the WPR pay wall. […]
Former ICWA Fellow Neri Zilber (Israel 2011-2013) recently published an article about Israeli media conspiracy claims in the Daily Beast titled “How Netanyahu Can Outrun the Cops.” Read the whole article here! […]
Waru is an impoverished neighborhood in Abuja, the capital of Nigeria. In Waru, homes lack latrines, leading residents to use a community latrine outside or relieve themselves in the bush. The community also deals with high amounts of trash. I met a woman with three children, none of them in school. Although the mother worked […]
Just days before the books release, former ICWA Fellow Suzy Hansen’s (Turkey, 2007-2009) new book continues to receive great reviews. Check out these two from The Atlantic and The Christian Science Monitor. Click here to pre-order the book. Click here to check out our ICWA event with Suzy Hansen on August 17th with the Pulitzer […]