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SUMMARY:Globally Adept: How Lifelong Learning Shapes a Better World with Carol Jenkins
DESCRIPTION:Carol Jenkins is the CEO of World Learning Inc.\, which encompasses three distinct branches: The Experiment in International Living; School for International Training\, which includes SIT Study Abroad and SIT Graduate Institute; and the nonprofit global development and exchange unit World Learning. Jenkins also serves as president of the global development and exchange division\, where she oversees programs in more than 30 countries. Jenkins has served in multiple positions at World Learning over more than a decade. She first joined in June 2007 as senior director of international programs after a 16-year career in humanitarian aid and development. She spent seven years at the organization\, including three years as head of its International Development and Exchange. In 2014\, after nearly a year working on business and program development for World Vision in East Africa\, Jenkins returned to World Learning. Under Jenkins’s leadership\, World Learning’s development portfolio has seen revenue increase by 14 percent with continued anticipated growth. She oversaw the merger of World Learning’s three development and exchange offices into one location\, leveraging the assets of more than 100 staff members. She was named CEO in February 2018. Prior to joining World Learning\, Jenkins was director of program development for International Medical Corps\, where she managed a team of technical business development professionals to improve the quality of field programs and expand the coverage to project recipients. She also previously spent 12 years working for World Vision\, including a period during which she was posted in Southern Africa. Jenkins holds a bachelor’s degree in political science from Messiah College in Pennsylvania. She was a fellow at the Luskin School of Public Affairs at University of California\, Los Angeles\, in 2012 and a participant in the Leadership Program at the International Civil Society Center. \nThis luncheon meeting will be held at noon on November 13th at the McGlinn Conference Center. \nClick here to register for this event now.
URL:https://wacreading.org/event/the-power-of-education-to-change-lives-globally-with-carol-jenkins/
LOCATION:McGlinn Conference Center\, 460 Saint Bernardine Street\, Reading\, PA\, 19607\, United States
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SUMMARY:Bringing Order to Anarchy - Governing the World to Come with Charles Kupchan
DESCRIPTION:Charles Kupchan is a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) and professor of international affairs at Georgetown University in the Walsh School of Foreign Service and Department of Government. \nFrom 2014 to 2017\, Kupchan served as special assistant to the president and senior director for European affairs on the staff of the National Security Council (NSC) in the Barack Obama administration. He was also director for European affairs on the NSC during the first Bill Clinton administration.  Before joining the Clinton NSC\, he worked in the U.S. Department of State on the policy planning staff.  Previously\, he was an assistant professor of politics at Princeton University. \nKupchan has served as a visiting scholar at Harvard University’s Center for International Affairs\, Columbia University’s Institute for War and Peace Studies\, the International Institute for Strategic Studies in London\, the Centre d’Étude et de Recherches Internationales in Paris\, and the Institute for International Policy Studies in Tokyo. From 2006 to 2007\, he was the Henry A. Kissinger scholar at the Library of Congress and a fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. From 2013 to 2014\, he was a senior fellow at the Transatlantic Academy. Kupchan received his BA from Harvard University and MPhil and DPhil from Oxford University \nLinked below is recent article by Charles Kupchan that he suggests circulating to your members to help shape and inform our conversation.\nhttps://www.foreignaffairs.com/united-states/deep-roots-trumps-isolationism\n  \nThis event will be held at noon on September 20th via Zoom Webinar. \nClick here to register for this event now.
URL:https://wacreading.org/event/bringing-order-to-anarchy-governing-the-world-to-come-with-charles-kupchan/
LOCATION:Virtual Event\, PA\, United States
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