Wednesday, February 21, 2018 6:00 8:00 p.m. Brown Faculty Club Co-sponsored by: Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs and Careers for Life after Brown (CareerLAB)
Schedule 5:45 6:00 p.m. Registration 6:00 6:10 p.m. Opening Remarks 6:10 6:45 p.m. Dinner and small group discussions with alum and students 6:45 7:30 p.m. Panelists: Libby Abbott 06, Associate Director, Health Workforce, Clinton Health Access Initiative Susan Gardinier Kimball 98, Senior Counsel, Environmental Protection Agency Aasha Jackson 15, International Family Planning and Population Policy Associate, USAID Darin Kingston 05, Associate Director, Global Development Incubator Ari Rubenstein 11, Associate Communications Director, Corporate Accountability Silvia Spring 03, US Foreign Policy Manager, Airbnb David Wade 97, CEO, Green Light Strategies, and former Chief of Staff to Secretary John Kerry Moderator: Carrie Nordlund, Associate Director of Public Policy, Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs 7:30 8:00 p.m. CLOSING RECEPTION and small group discussions with alum and students 2
Panelist Bios Libby Abbott 06 Associate Director, Health Workforce, Clinton Health Access Initiative (CHAI) Healthcare/Medicine/Public Health Oakland, CA Libby is Associate Director for Health Workforce programs at the Clinton Health Access Initiative (CHAI), where she has worked for 5 years with a growing focus on monitoring and evaluation, program design and health systems strengthening. Before joining CHAI, Libby worked for Innovations for Poverty Action on program monitoring and evaluation. She has lived in India, Nepal, Bangladesh, Zambia, Uganda, and Rwanda, and in addition has worked in Nigeria, Liberia, Sierra Leone and Ethiopia. She holds a Masters in Public Health and a Masters in International Affairs from Columbia University. Libby got her start in public health while at Brown during a year studying in Varanasi, India where she did field research to understand the role of caste in community-based distribution of family planning. Her first real job out of college was working for a former Brown professor doing qualitative health research in South India, and so has much appreciation towards Brown for setting her on her current path. She currently resides in Oakland, California and when not working is a fan of hiking, biking, camping and generally being outside. Susan Gardinier Kimball 98 Senior Counsel, Environmental Protection Agency Government Bethesda, MD Susan Gardinier Kimball is a Senior Attorney at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency s Environmental Appeals Board (EAB). She began her legal career at the EAB and has 9 years of experience handling administrative appeals of environmental permitting and enforcement cases. Susan helped to develop and implement the EAB s Alternative Dispute Resolution program, and she has successfully mediated several environmental permitting disputes. As part of the EAB s international judicial capacity building efforts, Susan has presented to international 3
Panelist Bios (con t) delegations visiting the Washington, DC area and EPA Headquarters. In December 2017 she traveled to Peru to deliver a judicial training to Peru s Environmental Enforcement Tribunal and judges of general jurisdiction. Susan holds a Master of public policy and a law degree from Georgetown University Law Center. While a student at Brown, Susan was a member of the women s ski team, taught English to Speakers of Other Languages through the Swearer Center for Public Service, and worked as a student assistant in the Alumni Relations office. Aasha Jackson 15 International Family Planning and Population Policy Associate, USAID Government Washington, D.C. Aasha Jackson is a Policy Associate at the Population Reference Bureau, operating from the Office of Population and Reproductive Health at the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). She works to ensure that USAID-supported family planning programs are guided by the principles of voluntarism and informed choice. She previously interned with the Africa Bureau at USAID. She is proficient in French and was a 2017 nominee for 120 Under 40: The New Generation of Family Planning Leaders. Aasha is also a 2018 recipient of the Marshall Scholarship. As a Marshall Scholar, she will pursue a MPhil in Public Policy at the University of Cambridge and MSc in Reproductive and Sexual Health Research at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. Aasha graduated from Brown in 2015 with a Bachelor of Arts in Development Studies. While at Brown, she was a member of the Brown Human Rights Report editorial staff, She s the First, and the Oja! Dance team and studied abroad in Cameroon in 2013 and France in 2012. 4
Panelist Bios (con t) Darin Kingston 05 Associate Director, Global Development Incubator Nonprofit Brooklyn, NY Darin is an Associate Director at GDI, where she works closely with the Development Frontiers focus area on building multi-stakeholder initiatives. She currently serves as the interim Director of Operations for the Global Fund to End Modern Slavery. At GDI, she has also served as the Interim COO of Convergence, and an advisor to Unorthodox Philanthropy and Emerging Public Leaders. Darin co-authored More than the Sum of Its Parts: Making Multi-Stakeholder Initiatives Work. Darin has experience designing and implementing social performance strategies at a range of mission-driven organizations, specializing in monitoring and evaluation and economic development. Immediately before joining GDI, she led the social impact measurement work of the top solar energy provider for developing markets, d.light. Darin earned a MA in International Affairs from Columbia University and a BA in International Relations from Brown University. Carrie Nordlund Associate Director of Public Policy, Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs, Brown University Providence, RI Carrie Nordlund joined Brown and the Watson Institute in February 2016 as Associate Director of Public Policy, and is the senior administrator for the MPA program. Carrie previously served as a graduate and undergraduate director at NYU s Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service. She previously earned her A.M. (2001) and Ph.D. (2006) in Political Science from Brown University. 5
Ari Rubenstein 11 Associate Communications Director, Corporate Accountability Social Justice Organizing & Communications Boston, MA Panelist Bios (con t) Ari Rubenstein is Associate Communications Director at Corporate Accountability. He is responsible for crafting messaging and communications to build the organization's power and visibility and advance its four campaign areas: climate change, water, food, and tobacco. Prior to joining staff at Corporate Accountability, he organized with Environment Connecticut and with Green Corps the Field School for Environmental Organizing. At Brown, Ari was director of empower; helped launch and run Beyond the Bottle, Brown s successful campaign to go bottled water free; served as music director of the Brown Derbies a cappella group; was on the Meiklejohn Leadership committee; and worked variously for BUDS, for Media Services, as a TA for the environmental studies department, and as a Hebrew School teacher. Silvia Spring 03 U.S. Foreign Policy Manager, Airbnb Foreign Policy Bethesda, MD Silvia Spring is the U.S. Foreign Policy Manager for Airbnb. Before joining Airbnb, she was a foreign service officer in the U.S. Department of State, where she has served as a consular officer in the Beijing Embassy, as a desk officer for Laos and Burma, in the U.S. Mission to the Organization for American States, and in the office of the Special Representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan. Before joining the Foreign Service, Silvia was a Newsweek special correspondent in London, Nairobi and Baghdad. Silvia holds a BA from Brown University and a MA in Development Studies from the University of London. As an undergraduate, she rowed on the Brown women's crew team, and worked at the Office of Overseas Programs. 6
Panelist Bios (con t) David Wade 97 CEO, Green Light Strategies, and former Chief of Staff to Secretary John Kerry Consulting Bethesda, MD David Wade is a public affairs consultant who assists global corporations and organizations with strategic advice, thought leadership, and crisis communications. A longtime advisor to innovative companies including Facebook and Airbnb, he is sought after for the expertise he developed through two decades at the highest levels of the State Department, on Capitol Hill, and on two national presidential campaigns. David was the Chief of Staff to the U.S. Department of State for more than two years. Foreign Policy Magazine described him as "the driving force behind the Department's day to day operations. David was awarded the Department's highest honor -- the Distinguished Honor Award. For five years, he served as Chief of Staff to Chairman John Kerry in the Senate. David is a veteran of two presidential campaigns, serving as the National Traveling Press Secretary for John Kerry for President and the national spokesperson for the Obama-Biden campaign working for vice-presidential nominee Joe Biden. His opinion and analysis columns have been published in The Atlantic, Foreign Policy, Slate, The Boston Globe, The Hill, Politico, and The Boston Herald. He is a Harry Truman Scholar, 2011 John C. Stennis Fellow, served on the State Department s Foreign Affairs Policy Board, and is a Fellow with the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. 7
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