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SUMMARY:Second Monday with CTWAC | February
DESCRIPTION:Join fellow World Affairs Council members in conversation over dinner on the issues impacting our world. Connect and engage with others\, share your thoughts\, and explore how we can secure our global future. \n\nThe Details:\nWhen: Monday\, February 10th | 6-7:30PM\nWhere: McCarter & English\, LLP | One Canterbury Green 201 Broad St\, Stamford\, CT 06901\nTickets: $15 Members\, $25 Non-members | Registration required\nRegistration is on a “first-come” basis and is limited to 20 participants. \nReserve your spot today \n\n\n \n\nUpcoming Second Mondays:\nFebruary 10th – The End of USAID?\nMarch 10th - *Topic TBA \n*Topics will be announced 2 weeks prior to events. \n\nPast Second Mondays:\n2024\nMarch 11th: Western Consensus on Ukraine: What’s Next?\nApril 8th: War in Gaza: How did we get here?\nMay 20th: Democratic Systems at a Crossroad\nJune 10th: Potential Flash Points - How is the U.S. positioned and what happens next?\nJuly 15th: The Climate Crisis & Global Instability\nSeptember 30th: Worldwide Efforts to Battle - or Embrace - Disinformation\nOctober 14th – The World After the U.S. Election\nNovember 12th – Foreign Policy in a New Administration\nDecember 9th – A Rebalancing in the Middle East and the Taiwan Question \n2025\nJanuary 13th – Greenland\, the Panama Canal\, and The Future of Immigration Policy \n\nStay Globally Involved\nRenew your membership or become a member on our website. As a member of the World Affairs Council of Connecticut\, you can get exclusive access to events and travel opportunities\, build relationships with local leaders and global dignitaries\, and join our community of global citizens. Let us bring the world to you.
URL:https://ctwac.org/event/second-monday-with-ctwac-february/
LOCATION:McCarter & English\, LLP\, One Canterbury Green 201 Broad St\, Stamford\, CT\, 06901\, United States
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SUMMARY:Digitally Invisible with Dr. Nicol Turner-Lee
DESCRIPTION:Today\, healthcare\, education\, and jobs are all online. Where does that leave the billions of people around the world without internet access?\nIn Digitally Invisible: How the Internet is Creating the New Underclass\, author Nicol Turner Lee tells stories from across America – including two from Hartford – that highlight the challenges faced by communities without internet access. \nDr. Nicol Turner-Lee\, Director of the Brookings Institution’s Center for Technology Innovation\, joins us on Digital Learning Day to reveal how the global digital divide is affecting our community and the world – and how closing the gap will increase America’s competitiveness on the global stage. Moderated by CTWAC’s Amanda Jolly. \nIn partnership with the Hartford Public Library. \nSponsored by Infosys Foundation USA \n\nThe Details\nWhen: Thursday\, February 13th | 5:30PM – 7:00PM\nWhere: Hartford Public Library\, Downtown branch\nTickets: Free | RSVP required \nReserve your spot today \n\n\nSupport global engagement in Connecticut by contacting CEO Megan Torrey about sponsorship opportunities \n\nAbout the Author\nDr. Nicol Turner Lee writes at the intersection of technology\, race\, and social justice. She is a senior fellow and director of the Center for Technology Innovation at the Brookings Institution\, and the founder of the AI Equity Lab. A tech policy expert and storyteller\, her work has appeared in the Washington Post and New York Times\, and on NBC\, CNBC\, NPR\, and the PBS NewsHour. She has served as an adviser on technology policy issues for government agencies\, including the National Academies of Sciences and the Federal Communications Commission. She received a PhD from Northwestern University\, and resides in Alexandria\, Virginia. \n\n\nAbout the book\nDigitally Invisible: How the Internet Is Creating the New Underclass by Nicol Turner Lee \nBillions of people around the world lack internet access. No one cared until the whole world had to go online.\nEconomic and health disparities are worsening in rural communities without available internet access. Students living in urban digital deserts with little technology exposure are ill-prepared to compete for emerging occupations. Even seniors struggle to navigate the aging process without access to online information and remote care. \nNicol Turner Lee\, a leading expert on the American digital divide\, uses personal stories from individuals around the country to show how the emerging digital underclass is navigating the spiraling online economy\, while sharing their joys and hopes for an equitable and just future. Turner Lee argues that achieving digital equity is crucial for the future of America’s global competitiveness and requires radical responses to offset the unintended consequences of increasing digitization. Learn more and get a copy of Digitally Invisible. \n\nIn Partnership With\n \n\nMission Partners\n \n  \nMark & Linda Caplan\nDonna Collins\nSusan & Peter G. Kelly\n\nStay Globally Involved\nBecome a member or renew today. As a member of the World Affairs Council of Connecticut\, you can get exclusive access to events and travel opportunities\, build relationships with local leaders and global dignitaries\, and join our community of global citizens. Let us bring the world to you.
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SUMMARY:In The Shadows with Hostage Negotiator and Author Mickey Bergman
DESCRIPTION:When an American is captured abroad\, that’s when private hostage negotiators like Mickey Bergman step in to bring them home. \nMickey Bergman\, two-time Nobel Peace Prize nominee and CEO of Global Reach\, has spent the past decade freeing Americans from the world’s most insulated countries. \nHe joins us in Stamford to reveal true stories from his career “in the shadows” to rescue Americans held hostage abroad – including Brittney Griner\, Trevor Reed\, and Paul Whelan. \nDuring the discussion\, Mickey will share real-time updates on the current hostage situations in Gaza\, Venezuela\, Russia\, and more. \nThe Details:\nWhat: Conversation with Mickey Bergman followed by book signing\nWhen: Thursday\, February 20th | 6:00PM-7:30PM\nWhere: Ferguson Library | 1 Public Library Plaza\, Stamford\, CT 06901\nTickets: No charge\, registration required \nReserve your spot today \n\n\n Support global engagement in Connecticut by contacting CEO Megan Torrey about sponsorship opportunities. \n\nIn Partnership With\n \n\nFeaturing\nMickey Bergman\nChief Executive Officer of Global Reach \nWith over 17 years of experience\, Mickey has managed relationships and private diplomacy efforts in North Korea\, Cuba\, Myanmar\, Russia\, the Middle East\, Venezuela\, and Africa. \nNominated twice for the Nobel Peace Prize in 2019 and 2023 alongside the late Governor Bill Richardson\, Mickey previously led his team at the Richardson Center as its Vice President and Executive Director to facilitate the release of more political prisoners than any other organization. \nMickey was recently honored with the 2023 James W. Foley Legacy Foundation American Hostage Freedom Award and serves on the Center for Strategic and International Studies Commission on Hostage Taking and Wrongful Detention. \n\nAbout the Book\nIn the Shadows: True Stories of High-Stakes Negotiations to Free Americans Captured Abroad by Mickey Bergman \nA top negotiator in countless high-stakes missions to free Americans captured abroad and held in the world's scariest prisons takes readers inside the dramatic and shadowy world of international hostage rescue.\nBrittney Griner\, Danny Fenster\, Otto Warmbier\, Trevor Reed\, Paul Whelan\, Kenneth Bae…When an American citizen is unjustly imprisoned overseas\, that’s when Mickey Bergman’s phone starts to ring. \nThis is the heart-pounding story of these urgent negotiations\, what it’s like to climb inside the minds of some of the world’s most notorious strongmen\, where the clear divisions between good and evil are replaced by a thousand shades of gray. \nAs Mickey Bergman and Ellis Henican make clear on every page\, international diplomacy isn’t just for government officials anymore. \nGet yourself a copy of In the Shadows here. \n\nAbout Global Reach\nGlobal Reach is a non-profit organization dedicated to bringing home Americans who are wrongly held abroad—whether by terrorist groups\, criminal gangs\, or foreign governments. \nGlobal Reach represents and works on behalf of the families of victims\, and does not accept money or any form of donation from the victims and families it serves. In the last 10 years\, the officers of Global Reach have worked on 124 cases of wrongfully held prisoners worldwide. 78 are now safely home with their families. Learn more at https://reach.global/ \n\nWith Support from\n\n  \n\nMission Partners\n \n  \nMark & Linda Caplan\nDonna Collins\nSusan & Peter G. Kelly\n\nStay Globally Involved\nBecome a member or renew today. As a member of the World Affairs Council of Connecticut\, you can get exclusive access to events and travel opportunities\, build relationships with local leaders and global dignitaries\, and join our community of global citizens. Let us bring the world to you.
URL:https://ctwac.org/event/in-the-shadows-mickey-bergman/
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SUMMARY:South Korea's Global Rise: With Ambassador Euy Whan Kim
DESCRIPTION:South Korea is taking over the world. From legions of fans flocking to K-Pop artists to the undeniable impact of Korean cuisine\, products\, and culture\, the world is taking notice. How did the nation rise to become the global powerhouse it is today? \nAmbassador Euy Whan Kim\, Consul General of South Korea in New York\, joins us to explore the massive cultural and economic impact South Korea has on the U.S. and the world. We’ll tackle everything from South Korea’s global cultural wave to the internal challenges it’s facing – including a hostile neighborhood and a presidential crisis. \nCome try delicious Korean specialties while discussing the unstoppable cultural force that is South Korea – and how the nation’s global rise is just getting started. \nThe Details\nWhen: Wednesday\, February 26th | 6:00pm – 7:00pm ET\nDoors open 5:30 for Korean bites and mingling\nWhere: Studio A at CT Public | 1049 Asylum Ave\, Hartford\, CT\nTickets: $25 Member | $35 Non-member | RSVP Today \nReserve your spot today \n\n\n Support global engagement in Connecticut by contacting CEO Megan Torrey about sponsorship opportunities. \n\nAmb. Euy Whan Kim\nConsul General of the Republic of Korea in New York \nConsul General Euy Whan Kim assumed his role as the Consul General of the Republic of Korea in New York on December 23\, 2022. As an accomplished author of six books and a global expert in public affairs and policy\, he brings more than three decades of diverse experience in public service to his current position. \nBefore becoming Consul General\, Mr. Kim held various positions within the Korean government. He served as the Commissioner of the Anti-Corruption & Civil Rights Commission (ACRC) from July 2019 to December 2020. This appointment followed his secondment to the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) as a Senior Anti-Corruption Advisor in October 2017. \nBeginning in March 2011\, he took on multiple Director-General roles within the ACRC\, leading the Bureaus of Anti-Corruption\, Administrative Appeal\, and Ombudsman. In 2008\, Mr. Kim served as Deputy Secretary to the President for Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) in Economic Affairs and Public Relations Planning. From 2002\, he held various positions at the Korea Independent Commission Against Corruption (KICAC)\, including Chief Director and Director of several divisions. \nBefore focusing on anti-corruption\, he worked for the Korea Fair Trade Commission\, the country's antitrust watchdog. Mr. Kim's career began in 1991 at the Ministry of Patriots and Veterans Affairs after passing the 34th High Civil Service Examination in 1990. Mr. Kim is married with one daughter. He earned a B.A. in Sociology from Korea University and an M.A. in Public Policy and Management from Ohio State University. \n\nMission Partners\n \n  \nMark & Linda Caplan\nDonna Collins\nSusan & Peter G. Kelly\n\nStay Globally Involved\nBecome a member or renew today. As a member of the World Affairs Council of Connecticut\, you can get exclusive access to events and travel opportunities\, build relationships with local leaders and global dignitaries\, and join our community of global citizens. Let us bring the world to you.
URL:https://ctwac.org/event/whats-next-for-south-korea/
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