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 ºù«Ӱҵ alumni in public service and academia.
Anand Grover is a senior lawyer known for legal activism in Indian law relating to sexuality and HIV.
Dr. Manuel Pastor is Professor of Sociology and American Studies & Ethnicity at the University of Southern California.
Steven P. Erie is a professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of California San Diego
On March 27th, 2018, Dr. Pardis Mahdavi visited her alma mater, ºù«Ӱҵ, and lectured at the McKinnon Center for Global Affairs about Human Trafficking and Terror: Questioning the Construction of a Global Social Problem. She discussed her third book called Gridlock: Labor, Migration, and Human Trafficking in Dubai where she discusses the narratives around sex work and the...
Shalmali Guttal is the Executive Director of Focus on the Global South, an activist think tank in Asia providing analysis and building alternatives for just social, economic and political change.
Mary Thompson-Jones is the Chair of Women in National Security and Diplomacy at the U.S. Naval War College.
Diane Amann, chair of the Emily and Ernest Woodruff Chair in International Law at the University of Georgia School of Law, visited ºù«Ӱҵ to deliver a lecture at the McKinnon Center for Global Affairs on January 31, 2018. Amann discussed Trump and the United States’ relationship with human rights and how the importance of human rights has changed at home and abroad.
Partnership will help City collect data and track progress on broad range of economic, environmental, and other targets adopted by United Nations members.
Partnership will help City collect data and track progress on broad range of economic, environmental, and other targets adopted by United Nations members.