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American Express Leadership Academy alumna Elena Zee shares profound impact of 2019 Aspen Institute Fellowship

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It is hard to express in one blog my entire week-long experience with nonprofit leaders from Japan, Syria, Uganda, Nigeria and different parts of the United States at the American Express Leadership Academy 2.0 at the Aspen Institute. It planted a seed for me to step into the nonprofit sector. It felt familiar yet different.

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Empowering Refugees: Interview with Kjerstin Erickson of FORGE

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Erickson founded FORGE (Facilitating Opportunities for Refugee Growth and Empowerment) in 2003 when she was a 20 year-old junior studying public policy at Stanford University. We bring communities together to identify their top problems, needs, and priorities, and solve them internally. It had been bombed.

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Elena Zee shares profound impact of 2019 Aspen Institute Fellowship

ASU Lodestar Center

It is hard to express in one blog my entire week-long experience with nonprofit leaders from Japan, Syria, Uganda, Nigeria and different parts of the United States at the American Express Leadership Academy 2.0 at the Aspen Institute. It planted a seed for me to step into the nonprofit sector. It felt familiar yet different.

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Off the Mat, Into the World: An Interview with Seane Corn

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It could be the environment, it could be educational issues, political issues, international, national. You won't see a rat in this environment, but God knows you do see and experience flies. Now that we're back, we're onto the next project which is the Uganda Seva Challenge where we will be building a birthing center.

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Mr. Jim Goes to Washington (and New York, and Nairobi, and Seoul, and Kampala, and Boston…)

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Met with a major international human rights defender group about our Martus technology and digital security more generally. Even in the tough fiscal environment in Washington, we get good hearings from both Republicans and Democrats. Kampala, Uganda The Sixth Africa Forum was the main reason for my Africa trip. Visiting the Hon.

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