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Jackson grad Dira Fabrian represents her native Indonesia with a regional organization that promotes economic, social, and cultural progress across southeast Asia.

Nairobi, Beijing, Doha, Hanoi — as a foreign service officer in the U.S. State Department, there’s “never a dull moment” in the career of Shobhit Kumar ’20.

An innovative new startup co-founded by Jackson grad Corey Pattison offers more than just a glimmer of hope in the uphill battle to combat climate change.

Interview with Kah Walla, a Cameroonian politician, entrepreneur and social activist who ran for president in 2011. She is also the CEO of STRATEGIES!, a leadership and management consulting firm she founded in 1995. In this interview, Walla discusses her perspectives on strategies for social change in Africa.

Interview with 2020 Yale World Fellow Hyppolite Ntigurirwa, an artist, activist, and founder of Be the Peace, an organization focusing on the use of art to halt the intergenerational transmission of hate and to promote the power of cross-generational healing. A child survivor of the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi, Hyppolite continues to promote reconciliation and peace throughout Rwanda.

H.E. Timothy Musa Kabba, Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation in Sierra Leone discusses coups, climate change, and conflict minerals — and his own remarkable journey from a child soldier in his country’s civil war all the way to the UN Security Council.

From a young age, Jackson alum Rheanne Wirkkala knew she wanted to work in government. The steps she’s taken since — from Yale to Capitol Hill, the Pentagon, and now foreign policy consulting— have been in pursuit of that dream.