GLOBAL POLITICAL ECONOMY
Annual Report 2020-2021
Mission The Young Initiative’s mission is to be a part of envisioning alternatives to the status quo in the Global Political Economy (GPE). To that end, we have a vision of GPE as an interdisciplinary academic enterprise that takes as its focus both structures of exclusion and possibilities of political-economic transformation that are systematically overlooked in traditional academic approaches. We are advancing that mission by:
» Connecting the Young Initiative to Occidental students and faculty. This includes supporting impactful global research and stimulating campus intellectual conversation in order to give space for all members of our community to contribute to reimagining our political-economic status quo. » Expanding our connections to Los Angeles. This is part of the Young Initiative’s commitment to showing how substate actors might improve local policies by engaging with international norms and academic partners. » Linking our theoretical/practical work to global academic and policy conversations across disciplines, across theoreticalpolicy divides, and across geographical spaces. A more expansively constituted GPE can more imaginatively approach global/local crises in governance around the world.
The John Parke Young Initiative on the Global Political Economy memorializes John Parke Young (Class of 1917), an international economist and the son of Rev. William Stewart Young, one of the founders of Occidental College and a 50-year member of the Board of Trustees. This endowment allows faculty and students to engage in global research and brings experts to campus for lectures and conferences to promote national or international economic, social, financial, and political policies and actions of public and social benefit. The Young Initiative made important strides during our year of remote learning—including building a larger social media presence and hosting engaging online lectures. The mission of this endowment remained the same, however: to connect students and faculty to stimulating conversations about the local, national, and international sphere of Global Political Economy.
Table of Contents Foreword from the Chair ................................................................3 Section 1: Young Events and Partnerships............................ 4 Partnerships with the Los Angeles Mayor’s Office ......................5 Summer 2020 Student Task Force Teams ..................................6 2020-21 Task Forces ......................................................................7 Young-sponsored Campus Events ................................................9 Section 2: Young in the Community ....................................15 Student Panels ............................................................................. 16 Young Podcast .............................................................................. 17 Digital Young: The Global Political Economy Hub ...................... 18 Young With Garvanza Elementary .............................................. 19 Section 3: Young-sponsored Faculty Research .................20 People ........................................................................................... 29 Young Initiative Leadership ......................................................... 29 Young Student Program Assistants ........................................... 30
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Foreword from the Chair Over the last year a global pandemic has cost millions of lives, pushed even more millions into extreme poverty, and shone a spotlight on pre-existing systemic economic inequality. This has brought the world to a tipping point. On the one hand, in recent years populist nationalisms—from Brazil to Colombia, India, and the United States (to name just a few countries)—have shown an ability to garner mass support for economic programs that undermine the poor to the benefit of the few, leading to social disequilibrium and political conflict. On the other hand, the chaos and rank failures of such governments to deal with pandemic and poverty has exposed the vapidity of their populist claims, opening space for alternatives to emerge. That raises hope … but a hope for what? The stubborn question with which the Young Initiative engages is how to give substance to that hope. What are, in short, alternatives to the status quo that move us beyond mere rejection and toward supporting a politics of pluralism and an economics of dignity? The report that follows gives details of our work toward that goal. This has included Young Initiative-sponsored events to uplift voices that speak to different visions of our local and global political economy. This has also meant extending Young Initiative partnerships with local and global practitioners to advance such visions in practice. And, lastly, it has resulted in impactful Young Initiativeenabled academic work that is, at least in part, constituted by these conversations and partnerships. Importantly—per the Task Forces led over the past year by members of Occidental’s Biology, Diplomacy & World Affairs, and Urban and Environmental Policy departments—this work necessarily crosses borders between academic disciplines just as it crosses traditional divisions between community, government, and academia. Together, we hope this Young Initiative work over the past year has substantively contributed to an overdue global conversation—a conversation about imagining more inclusive, equitable, and pluralistic forms of political economy.
Anthony Tirado Chase Professor, Diplomacy and World Affairs Chair, Young Initiative on the Global Political Economy
The following three sections of this report detail the Young Initiative’s work in the domains on which our mission focuses: » Young-sponsored student activities » Young-sponsored campus events » Young-sponsored workshops and faculty research
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young campus events and local partnerships The past year’s travel restrictions had a silver lining: They pushed the Young Initiative to double down on our commitment to connecting our students and faculty to “local” work in Los Angeles. As L.A. is a global city constituted by transnational communities, no place is more suitable to such global/local work. Our events and partnerships focused on social justice, community-driven action, and the potential of global norms to effect local change. This section introduces the events we held and the partnerships we solidified. 4
Partnerships with the Los Angeles Mayor’s Office The Sustainable Development Goals in L.A. Project is a Young Initiative partnership with the L.A. Mayor’s Office. We create student task forces that work under city leadership with faculty guidance to imagine for Los Angeles ways in which global norms can inform local policy. The task forces are empowered to use the SDGs as a tool to help envision fresh policy approaches to seemingly intractable local problems. Our task forces typically work with the Mayor’s Office of International Affairs. This year, we expanded our partnership across multiple city departments, including the Mayor’s Office of Economic Opportunity and the Mayor’s Chief Equity Office. Our partnership with these arms of the L.A. city government provides students with the opportunity to have a significant policy impact on issues related to the SDGs.
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Summer 2020 Student Task Force Teams During summer 2020, 17 Occidental students worked on six task forces with joint faculty-city leadership on a multitude of issues areas across city departments. These projects included: Disaggregating LGBTQIA+ Data, Intergenerational Poverty through the Lens of Student Homelessness, Community Development Block Grants, Life on Land, Healthy Indoor Environments to Live, Work, and Play, and SDG Community Index and Storytelling. Two of these Task Forces were led by Occidental faculty: Professor Madeline Baer (DWA) led work on Intergenerational Poverty through the Lens of Student Homelessness and Professor John McCormack (Biology) on Life on Land. The summer task force experience gave students the opportunity to explore city policy, develop and design comprehensive research projects, and present their findings to key city stakeholders. The final reports from each student team can be found in the Projects section of the Los Angeles Sustainable Development Goals website.
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Our Fall 2020 and Spring 2021 Task Forces Throughout the 2020-21 academic year, the Young Initiative strengthened its collaboration with the City of Los Angeles through our ongoing city-academic research partnerships. With faculty support, 33 Oxy students participated in task force projects based on the Young Initiative’s commitment to advance the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) 2030 Agenda. Task Force on Ensuring Equity During Decarbonization This yearlong task force led by Professor Mijin Cha of the Urban and Environmental Policy Department focused on an L.A.-based just transition away from fossil fuels. Five task force students sought to answer the question: What strategies can the City of Los Angeles implement to ensure a successful and equitable just transition for workers and communities? In addition, the research team sought to define the meaning and scope of a just transition in Los Angeles—who and what will be impacted by decarbonization and who and what should be included in just transition planning. Cha’s students worked for the L.A. Mayor’s Sustainability Office. The ultimate goal of the research was to provide the City of Los Angeles with a set of strategies to advance a successful and equitable just transition. Task Force on Gender Equity Professor Madeline Baer supervised a spring task force where students worked in consultation with the Mayor’s Office of the City of Los Angeles to implement SDG 5: Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls. The task force proposed a set of gender equity indicators for Los Angeles and the newly launched global network of cities (City Hub and Network for Gender Equity, or CHANGE), of which Los Angeles is a founding member. The data collected from these indicators will inform cities on their progress toward gender equity. The proposed indicators explicitly recognize intersecting inequalities predicated upon race, religion, ethnic origin, disability, sexual orientation, and gender identity and expression.
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Task Force on Truth and Reconciliation In cooperation with the Los Angeles Mayor’s Office of Economic Opportunity, its Chief Equity Office, and the Mayor’s Office of International Affairs, Professor Anthony Tirado Chase led the spring 2021 Young Initiative Task Force on how to stimulate a truth and accountability process around racial injustice in Los Angeles. Student research produced the report Truth in Los Angeles: Addressing Racial Injustice Through Recognition, Responsibility, and Repair. This report and its policy recommendations came from researching models around the globe that connect truth-telling to transitional, restorative, and transformative justice. Engaging with these models, their theoreticians, and their practitioners led the task force to its essential task: recommendations to the L.A. Mayor’s Office under the leadership of its chief equity officer, Brenda Shockley ’68, on how in practice the City can adapt such models in a manner suitable to advancing a truth and accountability process around L.A.’s distinct realities and histories of racial injustice. 8
Young-Sponsored Campus Events Despite the virtual setting of the 2020-21 school year, the Young Initiative continued to foster and facilitate discussions around the global political economy and international relations at large. Young sponsored or co-sponsored six speaker events illuminating global issues such as restorative justice, food insecurity, and state-sanctioned violence. MANAGING NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL VIOLENCE: FROM DEMONSTRATIONS TO TRANSFORMATION September 30, 2020
Luis Moreno Ocampo is the former first chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court. Previously, he played a crucial role in Argentina’s transition to democracy, as the deputy prosecutor of the 1985 “Junta trial” and the prosecutor in a trial against the military rebellion in 1991.
Ted Braun is a noted documentarian and the Joseph Campbell Endowed Chair of Cinematic Ethics at USC. His critically acclaimed feature film Darfur Now spearheaded a global social action campaign and won the NAACP Image Award for best documentary of 2007.
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TRUTH COMMISSION AND TRANSITIONAL JUSTICE October 7, 2020
Kelebogile Zvobgo is a pre-doctoral fellow and incoming assistant professor of government at William & Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia. She is also the founder and director of the International Justice Lab at William & Mary. Her research broadly engages questions in human rights, transitional justice, and international law.
FEEDING THE HUNGRY November 4, 2020 Michelle Jurkovich is an assistant professor of political science at the University of Massachusetts Boston and a visiting fellow at the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics at Harvard University. Her research interests include international food security, ethics, economic and social rights, and human security.
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RESTORATIVE JUSTICE AND RACIAL JUSTICE: FROM TRUTH TELLING TO REPARATIONS November 5, 2020
Fania Davis is a leading national voice on restorative justice. She is a civil rights lawyer, social justice advocate, restorative justice practitioner, writer, and scholar with a Ph.D. in Indigenous Knowledge. The Los Angeles Times named her a New Civil Rights Leader of the 21st Century. Davis’ research interests include race, restorative and social justice, and exploring the Indigenous roots—particularly the African Indigenous roots—of restorative justice.
Jennifer Llewellyn is a professor of law for the Schulich School of Law at Dalhousie University and the director of the International Learning Community on a Restorative Approach. In 2018, she served as the scholar in residence for the Nova Scotia Human Rights Commission. Llewellyn is a leading expert on, and advocate of, restorative justice, publishing extensively on the theory and practice of a restorative approach.
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TRUTH AND ACCOUNTABILITY AROUND RACIAL JUSTICE IN LOS ANGELES March 18, 2021
Pablo Abitbol is the coordinator of the Grupo Regional de Memoria Histórica (Colombia). He is a professor of new political economy, big history, and theories of democracy and development in the faculty of social sciences and humanities of the Technological University of Bolívar. Abitbol’s research focuses on collective memory, deliberative democracy, and peacebuilding and reconciliation.
Cristián Correa is a senior expert with the International Center for Transitional Justice. Correa is an expert in the definition and implementation of reparations programs for mass human rights violations. Previously, Correa was legal adviser for a commission of the Presidency of Chile, responsible for identifying the disappeared and defining a human rights policy, and the legal secretary of the Commission of Political Imprisonment and Torture of Chile.
Ashley Quarcoo is a visiting fellow with the SNF Agora Institute at John Hopkins University and a senior fellow with the Democracy, Conflict, and Governance Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Quarcoo previously spent over a decade supporting peacebuilding and democratic development in post-conflict countries and countries transitioning from authoritarianism. Her research focuses on threats to democracy, social and political polarization, and comparative approaches toward building social cohesion and democratic renewal.
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UYGHUR MUSLIM PERSECUTION IN XINJIANG [CO-SPONSORED WITH CRITICAL THEORY AND SOCIAL JUSTICE] April 1, 2021
Timothy Grose is a professor of China studies at the Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology. He specializes in ethnic policy in China. Grose’s research also focuses on the Uyghur population in China as well as on religion, particularly through the lens of Islamic and Tibetan Buddhist traditions.
Salam al-Marayati is president and co-founder of the Muslim Public Affairs Council. His expertise centers on Middle Eastern politics, national security, Islam in the West, and Muslim reform movements. He has published several articles including in The Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, and USA Today, and has been featured on news outlets such as C-SPAN and NBC. AlMarayati was formerly co-chair of the Interfaith Coalition to Heal Los Angeles. He is currently an adjunct faculty member at the Bayan Claremont Islamic Graduate School and a board member of the Muslim Reform Institute.
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Lan Chu is a professor in Occidental’s Diplomacy and World Affairs Department. Chu has many research interests including faith diplomacy, political ideology, and the political role of religious institutions, particularly the Catholic Church. Chu is on the executive council of the Western Political Science Association and is on the editorial board of its journal, Politics, Groups, and Identities. She also serves as a country expert for the University of Gothenburg’s Varieties of Democracy Project.
Anthony Tirado Chase serves as chair of the Young Initiative and is a professor in Occidental’s Diplomacy and World Affairs Department. Chase is a theoretician of human rights with a particular focus on Middle Eastern politics, transitional justice, and sexual orientation and gender identity (SOGI)-based rights. Chase has written several books on the topic of human rights in the Middle East, North Africa, and the Arab and Muslim worlds, and he has most recently been published in the International Journal of Human Rights.
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section 2 young in the community Our Young Initiative community connections spanned student groups, community organizations, city officials, and local elementary school students. We recognize that our work on the Global Political Economy is as relevant to local communities as it is to communities outside of Los Angeles. The future of GPE, local action, and sustainable development begins with connections across academic institutions and community groups that recognize that global norms only matter if they have local relevance. In that context, this section of our report details the partnerships we made, the projects we supported, and the networks we are growing.
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Student Panels The SDGs in L.A.: Sustainability Politics in Local Governance Held on October 15, this panel discussion included former and current Oxy students Snigdha Suvarna ’20, Nancy Zhou ’22, and Julia Eubanks ’22. They shared their work with the Young Initiativesupported task force projects for the Los Angeles Mayor’s Office relating to Biodiversity in Los Angeles and Healthy Indoor Environments. This panel gave students the opportunity to evaluate how their projects contributed to local policy-making in Los Angeles and the role of our community in advancing the SDGs in local and global contexts.
Poverty and Inclusion in the Los Angeles SDGs Held on October 30th, this panel discussion included current Oxy students Stephanie Oyolu ’22, Johnny Hammer ’21, Alejo Maggini ’22, Caroline Diamond ’22, and Wafa Abedin ’21. They shared their work with the Young Initiative-supported task force projects for the Los Angeles Mayor’s Office relating to Community Block Grants, Disaggregating LGBTQIA+ Data, and Student Housing Insecurity and Educational Outcomes. This panel gave students the space to share their work and findings, and showed the potential impact students can have in shaping city policy through involvement in the Young Initiative and the City of Los Angeles.
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Young Podcast The Young Podcast is a series created and hosted by the Young Initiative student programming assistants to foster intellectual community during the remote academic year. The Young Podcast is funded by the John Parke Young Initiative as part of community partnership programming with the hope of connecting the Young Initiative to Occidental students and faculty and linking theoretical work to global conversations across disciplines. The podcast invites academics, professionals, and community voices into discussion about the global political economy, international relations, and community activism through monthly episodes. Each semester has two relevant thematic areas of focus, which reflect trends in global news and current events. Guests are chosen through their connection to the current semester’s themes, such as Art as Activism, Human Rights, or International Security. Any connection to relevant work at Occidental College or in the Greater Los Angeles area is also considered, such as being a resident artist with Oxy Arts or a visiting faculty member. These interviews support the Young Initiative’s commitment to fostering campus-wide intellectual discourse around alternatives to the political and economic status quo.
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Digital Young: The Global Political Economy Hub building our network in a virtual environment The Young Initiative’s Global Political Economy Hub is a regularly updated collection of upcoming events around the world that are related to our mission of envisioning alternatives to the status quo in the Global Political Economy (GPE). This hub reflects our vision of GPE as an interdisciplinary academic enterprise, as it draws from a diverse pool of organizations with distinct foci, some of which are international and others local in their scope. Events are hosted by influential institutions such as the United Nations’ SDG Action Campaign and Commission on the Status of Women; to innovative institutes like the SNF Agora Institute at Johns Hopkins University and Peterson Institute; and even by our peers at Occidental College, such as the Critical Theory and Social Justice Department. The purpose of this hub is to facilitate access to everything related to GPE for the Occidental community and beyond. We hope that through our Global Political Economy Hub, we are able to create an influential and inspiring center of learning and practice that will enable and propel multisectoral dialogue and knowledge exchange to advance the process of political-economic transformation on a global scale. Follow us on Instagram @young.initiative and Twitter @Young_GPE for upcoming events through the Young Initiative and the Global Political Economy Hub.
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Young with Garvanza Elementary The Young Student Team led a workshop on podcast design based on our Young Podcast for the Garvanza Leadership and Technology Magnet in Eagle Rock. The Garvanza Tiger Tech Podcast is a community-centered project that reaches local audiences through accessible formats. To advance this goal through monthly podcasts, Tiger Tech elementary student leaders and their teachers invited Young students for a presentation on best practices in podcast design, interviewing, and local outreach. The Young Student Team also answered several thoughtful questions about the Young Initiative’s mission, community engagement, and queries about college experiences from a group of curious and dedicated elementary school students. We hope to continue this relationship and keep building community through our podcasts. The Young Student Team thanks Oxy Arts for facilitating this meaningful connection.
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section 3 young-sponsored faculty research With support from the Young Initiative, professors in the DWA Department were able to pursue innovative research, organize events, and lead students in powerful projects. Even without international travel, the research funded by the Young Initiative shows fruitful engagement with the Global Political Economy. The following pages provide a review of faculty research enabled by Young Initiative support during the 2020-21 academic year.
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Faculty Research
Phillip Ayoub The Young Initiative supported Phillip Ayoub’s research and professional activities while he was on sabbatical at the Hertie School’s Centre for International Security in 2020-21. The funding was directed in a number of ways, including research support from two student assistants, and help with several ongoing research projects on LGBT rights and resistance in Europe and globally. In particular, a recent study published in the American Political Science Review looked at the effect of a first Pride march on attitudes in Bosnia and Herzegovina. The Young Initiative funded part of both the quantitative survey and qualitative interview research. Further research support included a piece on the status of LGBT scholarship in the field of political science and a pedagogical piece on research design. Finally, it also partially supported Ayoub’s work editing a special issue on gender policy during the Angela Merkel era.
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Madeline Baer The John Parke Young Initiative on the Global Political Economy supported Professor Madeline Baer’s research and teaching in a number of ways during the 2020-21 academic year. Baer presented her paper “Contesting Rights: Champions and Challengers of Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights” at the International Studies Association annual meeting. She used Young funds to support both her ongoing research on economic and social rights, and her new project on the implementation of global norms at the city level. This new research draws on her work with Oxy students and the Los Angeles Mayor’s Office to localize the UN Sustainable Development Goals in Los Angeles. Baer is also researching the pedagogical value of experiential learning partnerships with local city governments for undergraduate international relations courses.
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Lan Chu This past academic year, the Young Initiative supported Professor Lan Chu’s continued research on religion and international relations. With the continuation of COVID, in-person research talks and conferences were canceled. Fortunately, however, all of the talks hosted by the Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs at Georgetown University were conducted over Zoom. This allowed Chu to attend many more talks than if they had been in person, putting her in touch with scholars whose work parallels her own. From these talks, she used her Young Initiative funds to purchase research materials focusing on the study of religious actors within the constructivist framework of international relations. As a result, Chu was able to contextualize the case studies she researched last year within international relations theory literature.
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Sophal Ear
Thanks to the John Parke Young Initiative on the Global Political Economy’s faculty funding, Professor Sophal Ear was thrilled to sign a contract with Routledge for his third book, Viral Sovereignty and the Political Economy of Pandemics: What Explains How Countries Handle Outbreaks? The manuscript would not have been possible without support from the Young Initiative, which funded a private editor and research assistant. Having received very favorable external reviews, the book will come out by the end of 2021.
Viral Sovereignty and the Political Economy of Pandemics explores and critiques the responses of developing countries to emerging infectious diseases (EIDs) in the past, such as H5N1 avian influenza, artemisinin-resistant malaria, A/H1N1 swine flu, and Ebola. In analyzing the lessons learned over the years, the book proposes a deceptively simple solution: Meaningful viral sovereignty must be established worldwide. Under meaningful viral sovereignty, a country is able to successfully manage diseases that emerge within its own borders. For this to succeed, developed countries have an obligation to developing countries to help build up their health and surveillance capacity to create a strong global network of protection to keep future pandemics at bay. Donating medical equipment and lump sums of aid alone are not sufficient in building up health capacity in these nations. Quite often, volunteers and donors from the developed world do not have a grasp on local politics and culture. This leaves them unable to communicate effectively at best and causes deep local distrust at the worst. COVID-19 demonstrates clearly that just one broken link in the international chain of defense is enough to throw the entire world into a pandemic. Based on intensive fieldwork conducted in Indonesia, Cambodia, Thailand, the Greater Mekong Sub-Region, West Africa, Kenya and the East African Community, and Mexico, Viral Sovereignty and the Political Economy of Pandemics closely examines the sociopolitical factors behind disease containment and sheds light on how the global community can prevent pandemics like COVID-19 from wreaking havoc again. In spite of the pandemic, support from the Young Initiative has enabled Ear to give video conference talks at Soka University of America, Northbridge International School Cambodia, Frankfurt International School, Chulalongkorn University, Nordic Institute of Asian Studies/New York Southeast Asia Network, and the U.S. Embassy Jakarta/Centre for Strategic and International Studies Indonesia/Pacific Forum. Ear also gratefully acknowledges support from the Young Initiative for the following publications: “Chapter 9: Ethnicity in Cambodia, Laos, and Vietnam,” (with Gaea Morales), book chapter, edited by Michael Weiner (Soka University of America and San Diego State University), Handbook on Race and Ethnicity in Asia, Routledge, forthcoming August 17, 2021; and “Cambodia: Economy,” (with Gaea Morales), book chapter, edited by Juliet Love, The Far East and Australasia, 52nd edition, Routledge/ Europa World, November 5, 2020.
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Laura Hebert The Young Initiative supported Hebert’s teaching, research, and professional activities in 2020-21 in a number of ways, most importantly by providing funds to hire two students as research assistants to help compile databases tracking U.S. government funding allocations for domestic and international anti-human trafficking activities. The data gathered allowed for the completion of her book manuscript, Gender & Human Rights in a Global, Mobile Era, during her fall sabbatical. This database project is ongoing and will ultimately document the government’s anti-trafficking funding decisions from 2003 to the present, serving as the foundation for Hebert’s post-book research agenda. In addition, the Young Initiative allowed for the purchase of books, materials, and office supplies related to her teaching and research. It also provided funds for virtual conference participation and annual memberships to the American Political Science Association, International Studies Association, Western Political Science Association, and Association of Women’s Rights in Development.
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Igor Logvinenko The Young Initiative provided significant support for Logvinenko’s professional endeavors in 202021. It made it possible to hire research assistants who collected materials used for the publication of two policy papers in Just Security (December 2020 and February 2021). Additionally, the support offered by Young allowed Logvinenko to complete the manuscript of his forthcoming book, Global Finance, Local Control: Corruption and Wealth in Contemporary Russia (Cornell Studies in Money, Cornell University Press, October 2021). Finally, funding from Young allowed Logvinenko to hire production support for a podcast series (jointly with journalist Casey Michel) to be released ahead of a workshop titled “Global Kleptocracy as an American Problem,” which the Young Initiative hopes to host in academic year 2021-22.
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Movindri Reddy During the 2020-21 academic year all conferences were online. On August 23, 2020, Reddy presented a paper titled “India’s Political Influence in South Africa” at the virtual Indian Diaspora Conference. The original location for this conference was Trinidad; because of the pandemic, it was rescheduled virtually. The edited paper titled “India and South Africa: ‘Guptagate’ and Indentured Indian Identity” was accepted for publication by the National Council of Indian Culture (NCIC) associated with the University of West Indies. The International Studies Association (ISA) also had a virtual conference in April 2021. Professor Reddy was a discussant on two panels: Social Movements, Civil Resistance, and New Transnationalism, and Diplomacy and Conflict Resolution: New Forms of Diplomacy. Besides teaching a full schedule, Reddy spent the year working toward completing her book manuscript tentatively titled Power, Stability, and Survival in Southern Africa, due to the publisher in late 2021.
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PEOPLE Young Initiative Leadership Anthony Tirado Chase Chair, Young Initiative on the Global Political Economy Professor, Diplomacy and World Affairs
Madeline Baer Faculty Associate, Young Initiative on the Global Political Economy and Associate Professor, Diplomacy and World Affairs
Igor Logvinenko Faculty Associate, Young Initiative on the Global Political Economy and Associate Professor, Diplomacy and World Affairs
Chamnan Lim Assistant Director, Administration and Programs McKinnon Center for Global Affairs Young Initiative on the Global Political Economy
Gaea Morales Program Coordinator, Young Initiative on the Global Political Economy McKinnon Center for Global Affairs 29
PEOPLE Young Student Program Assistants Wafa Abedin ’21 Diplomacy and World Affairs Economics minor Walla Walla, Washington
Oli Vorster ’22 Diplomacy and World Affairs Religious Studies minor San Francisco, California
Caroline Diamond ’22 Diplomacy and World Affairs Economics major Portland, Oregon
Noah Yee Yick ’22 Diplomacy and World Affairs Group Language St. Paul, Minnesota
Alejo Maggini ’22 Diplomacy and World Affairs Economics Education minor Mendoza, Argentina
Sueli Zalazar ’24 Urban and Environmental Policy Asunción, Paraguay
Stephanie Oyolu ’22 Diplomacy and World Affairs Economics Houston, Texas
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