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<\/a>On Monday, Feb. 5, the spring 2018 special topics course commemorating the 50th<\/sup> anniversary of Martin Luther King, Jr.\u2019s Poor People\u2019s Campaign kicks off its public lecture series with guest speaker, Gordon K. Mantler<\/strong>. Mantler is a professor of history and of writing at George Washington University, and author of Power to the Poor: Black-Brown Coalition and the Fight for Economic Justice, 1960-1974<\/em>. Mantler’s talk will take place beginning at 5:30 p.m. in UB’s Town Hall, located in the H. Mebane Turner Learning Commons. The event is FREE and open to the public.<\/p>\nLearn more about the course: http:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/poorpeoplescampaign\/<\/a><\/p>\n The text of the proposed bill is now available online: https:\/\/www.congress.gov\/bill\/115th-congress\/senate-bill\/2305\/text?q=%7B%22search%22%3A%5B%22Sherrod+Brown%22%5D%7D&r=1<\/a><\/p>\n M.A. in Global Affairs and Human Security student Carolina Todo Bom<\/strong> (left) and M.S. in Negotiations and Conflict Management student\u00a0Blessing Olatimehin<\/strong> (right) have been named 2018 United Nations Association (UNA\u2013NCA) Graduate Fellows<\/a>. According to the UNA-NCA website, the Fellows Program offers participants the chance to build strong professional and academic skills through relevant internship experiences and a series of 10 seminars on global issues and the United Nations. Bom and Olatimehin are among a diverse group of 22 fellows who come from various universities in the Washington metropolitan area.<\/p>\n During the holiday break, Assistant Professor Sarah Federman<\/strong><\/a> worked with Project COMMON BOND<\/a>, a program that supports college students who have lost a parent to terrorism. Grown out of Tuesday\u2019s Children<\/a>, which was created to support those impacted by 9\/11, Project COMMON BOND now supports young people from all over the world grappling with challenging losses and violent conflict. The January seminar in which Federman participated works specifically with students who want to learn more about conflict resolution: either to help their home nations (U.S., Haiti, Palestine, Ireland, Norway, Bosnia, Columbia, Argentina, India, Kenya, etc.) address conflict or to help them respond productively to their own losses. The seminar included conflict resolution theory and practice as well as spoken-word poetry and theater games drawing on the \u201cTheatre of the Oppressed\u201d methodologies.<\/p>\n Asst. Prof. Sarah Federman (top row, far left) with the January seminar participants<\/p><\/div>\n Federman will also deliver a talk\u2014\u201cNarrative & Conflict: How our words perpetuate and\/or transform conflict\u201d\u2014at St. Paul\u2019s Episcopal Church (233 N. Charles St.) from 9-11 a.m. on Sunday, Feb. 11.<\/p>\n
\n<\/a>Negotiations and Conflict Management graduate Shilesha Bamberg<\/strong>, M.S. \u201917, has spent nearly a year working on a bill on human trafficking, which was recently introduced to Congress by Senator Sherrod Brown. Bamberg\u2019s work on the bill began during her time spent interning in Senator Brown\u2019s office as a 2017 Congressional Fellow on Women and Public Policy<\/a>, an opportunity she earned during her final semester of graduate school at UB.<\/p>\n
\n<\/a>Doctor of Public Administration student Lyndsay Bates<\/strong> has been selected as a 2018 ASPA Founders Fellow<\/a>. The 2018 class of fellows is comprised of 25 graduate students and new professionals from around the country. The competitive fellowship, launched by the American Society of Public Administration in 2006, was created to support the next generation of public service leaders through\u00a0a series of professional development opportunities. The fellowship will enable Bates to attend ASPA\u2019s annual conference this March in Denver, CO where she\u2019ll present her research. Additionally, fellows receive a year-long mentorship with a seasoned practitioner or senior scholar and have access to tailored professional development webinars that address their specific educational and professional goals.<\/p>\n
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\n<\/a>It\u2019s only a month into the new year and Associate Professor Sascha Sheehan<\/strong><\/a> has already penned six op-eds for various publications, including Fox News<\/em>, The Hill<\/em>, Washington Examiner<\/em>, and Newsmax<\/em>. His latest article<\/a>, co-authored with University of Michigan Professor Emeritus Raymond Tanter, challenges an argument made by a leading Iran scholar at AEI and was a lead story in The National Interest,\u00a0<\/em>the leading journal associated with the realist school of foreign policy thought.<\/p>\n