Abacha is not loud or flashy; he doesn't dominate a room or a conversation; he is not an authoritarian manager. Instead, he listens, he considers, he speaks when he has something important to say (which means people always listen when he talks), and he gains the respect of his team by being respectful and being a person other people want to follow...
Read MoreDr. Abu-Nimer was one of my graduate school professors at American University, where he teaches in the International Peace & Conflict Resolution program at the School of International Service...
Read MoreAmr and I went to grad school together at American University in Washington, DC, where we got our degrees in International Peace and Conflict Resolution. Amr stood out to me for a few reasons...
Read MoreAizada is a super star, who overcomes challenges and achieves everything she sets out to do. I've known her since she was 13 and she walked into my 8th grade English class when I was a brand new teacher in her village in Jon-Aryk, Talas, in Kyrgyzstan...
Read MoreAbubakar was one of the first team members on our North East Nigeria program, which means he weathered the early days of startup challenges, in addition to the challenges of helping his state recover from the ravages of Boko Haram...
Read MoreI met Assad in 2011 working in Kandahar, Afghanistan, where he managed our team's projects in Kandahar City, one of the toughest places in the world to work. In my experience, Afghans are shrewd survivors, and Assad a quintessential example of this...
Read MoreZouheir and Nemat are two of the most wonderful people I know. They are both so full of life, caring, and purpose. They live in Istanbul now, but I met them working in Gaziantep, Turkey, several years ago. Zouheir and Nemat met working together in Damascus, and they fled Syria when things became too violent for them to stay...
Read MoreI met Zarami in Nigeria, where we worked together when I lived in Abuja in 2014-16...
Read MoreAisulu means “beautiful moon” in Kyrgyz. She is the youngest child and only daughter of my host family when I was a Peace Corps Volunteer in Kyrgyzstan...
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