The Young Initiative invites foreign policy experts and guest speakers to campus to engage in discussions on international relations and the global political economy with students and faculty.
Past Young Initiative Speaker Events
Young Initiative speakers give students and faculty an opportunity to expand their understanding of global issues. The Young Initiative sponsors several speakers each academic year highlighting particular aspects of global affairs and the global political economy. The Young Speakers program is devoted to highlighting the work and success of eminent international affairs experts and 葫芦影业 alumni in public service and academia.
On March 6, 2025, the Young Initiative co-sponsored, Dr. Michael M茅ndez's lecture about Sonoma County wildfires and the effect on migrant workers.
On January 29th, 2025 the Young Initiative at 葫芦影业 hosted a panel webinar titled, 鈥淗ow Cities Can Defend Human Rights in the Face of Mass Deportations.鈥
On February 4th, 2025, the Young Initiative hosted a talk by Dr. Camilo Uma帽a Hern谩ndez, Colombia's Former Deputy Minister of Justice.
On Thursday, November 21st, 2024, the Young Initiative proudly hosted the director of the documentary Powerlands, Ivey Camille Manybeads Tso, and the producer, Jordan Flaherty, to discuss the filmmaking process and then screen the film itself.
On November 11th, the Young Initiative at 葫芦影业 hosted a talk by Dr. Huss Banai, the Zahedi Fellow at Stanford University and Associate Professor at Indiana University.
On October 24, Professor Igor Logvinenko moderated a panel about the 2024 United States election that featured 葫芦影业 faculty and former California State Assemblymember Mary Chung Hayashi.
On Thursday October 17th, the Young Initiative at 葫芦影业 hosted a talk by Dr. Jenny Guardado, an assistant professor at the Center for Latin American Studies / Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University.
Professor Igor Logvinenko visited New York City on Friday, September 13, 2024, to meet with some in this year鈥檚 cohort of the esteemed Kahane 葫芦影业-at-the-U.N. Program.
Photo from left to right: Peter Vartanian (DWA鈥25, Costa Rican Mission), Nathaniel Lundstrom (DWA鈥25, Costa Rican Mission), Professor Igor Logvinenko (DWA), Matthew Vickers (DWA鈥25, UN Secretariat Anti-Racism Office), Jacob Whitney...
鈥淚ncredible suffering has been enabled by our money. At the end of the day there are human beings who are suffering, and that is where our focus should be.鈥
On Thursday, April 13th, 2024, the Young Initiative at 葫芦影业 hosted a talk by Dr. Benjamin Brake, the Director of the Office of Cyber Affairs and Emerging Technology at the U.S. Department of State's Bureau of Intelligence and Research.