https://www.blackdiplomats.net/episodes daily 0.75 2025-05-26 https://www.blackdiplomats.net/episodes/what-is-project-2025 monthly 0.5 2024-06-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eeb29e545ae955623506e20/3bd106d3-d80f-462c-964e-ef0977696145/Black+Diplomats+Project+2025+thumbnail.jpg Episodes - What is Project 2025? - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.blackdiplomats.net/episodes/are-pro-palestine-protests-an-elite-college-phenomenonnbsp monthly 0.5 2024-05-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eeb29e545ae955623506e20/6c6d1355-8143-41b1-8c22-b7e02b7e4a1c/Black+Diplomats+5-25+Dr.+Kimbrough+thumbnail.jpg Episodes - Are Pro-Palestine Protests An Elite College Phenomenon?  - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.blackdiplomats.net/episodes/black-people-care-about-foreign-affairs monthly 0.5 2024-05-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eeb29e545ae955623506e20/04308527-248d-4c0e-add8-8b2f7748ff62/Black+Diplomats+5-18-24+Christopher+Shell+thumbnail.jpg Episodes - Black People Care About Foreign Affairs - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.blackdiplomats.net/episodes/young-georgians-talk-about-tbilisiprotests monthly 0.5 2024-05-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eeb29e545ae955623506e20/973e719c-6e37-483f-8601-d69b9c04db69/Black+Diplomats+5-8-24+thumbnail.jpg Episodes - Young Georgians Talk About #TbilisiProtests - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.blackdiplomats.net/episodes/ukrainians-and-palestinians-are-fighting-occupation monthly 0.5 2024-05-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eeb29e545ae955623506e20/0e4cab9b-2128-422d-b5c5-c9a638275f0f/uW7Na06l.jpg-large.jpeg Episodes - Ukrainians and Palestinians Are Fighting Occupation - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eeb29e545ae955623506e20/8e4b2776-1db3-4226-82fc-272074e54d60/Black+Diplomats+5-4-24+thumbnail.jpg Episodes - Ukrainians and Palestinians Are Fighting Occupation - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eeb29e545ae955623506e20/45daa17c-a10b-4b29-bd1e-85c96cdb645b/%D0%B7%D0%BE%D0%B1%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%B6%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%BD%D1%8F_2023-03-30_122034033.png Episodes - Ukrainians and Palestinians Are Fighting Occupation - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.blackdiplomats.net/episodes/how-a-ukrainian-therapist-supports-people-sexually-assaulted-by-russian-soldiers monthly 0.5 2024-04-27 https://www.blackdiplomats.net/episodes/why-georgians-are-protesting-a-russian-foreign-agent-bill monthly 0.5 2024-04-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eeb29e545ae955623506e20/539c4fb8-8b7c-4902-a50d-027ec9d2cbb8/Black+Diplomats+4-20-24+Katie+Shoshiashvili+thumbnail.jpg Episodes - Why Georgians Are Protesting a Russian ‘Foreign Agent’ Bill - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eeb29e545ae955623506e20/ca687ae4-e4a7-4590-a3ca-595f1fcbd0b7/Headshot.jpg Episodes - Why Georgians Are Protesting a Russian ‘Foreign Agent’ Bill - Make it stand out Katie Shoshiashvili, Senior Corruption Researcher at Transparency International Georgia, focuses on democracy reporting and research on democratization in the EU's Eastern Partnership region. She holds a MSc degree in Public Administration from Erasmus University Rotterdam and a Bachelor's degree from the Free University of Tbilisi. Additionally, she contributes insights on disinformation in Eastern Partnership countries to Euractiv’s FREIHEIT platform. https://www.blackdiplomats.net/episodes/breaking-down-putins-weird-obsession-with-ukrainian-history monthly 0.5 2024-04-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eeb29e545ae955623506e20/f5bcee72-a374-4bff-a697-9ff1ed9686d6/Black+Diplomats+Serhii+Plokhii+thumbnail.jpg Episodes - Breaking Down Putin’s Weird Obsession with Ukrainian ‘History’ - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.blackdiplomats.net/episodes/ukraines-fight-for-crimea monthly 0.5 2024-04-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eeb29e545ae955623506e20/2441badb-51af-456c-9e97-a9e27081b18d/Black+Diplomats+Tamila+Tasheva+thumbnail.jpg Episodes - Ukraine’s Fight for Crimea - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.blackdiplomats.net/episodes/fighting-russian-disinformation-with-maria-adveeva monthly 0.5 2024-03-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eeb29e545ae955623506e20/a73821f4-d7c6-42de-a82e-3a112ed8e519/Black+Diplomats+03-30-24+thumbnail.jpg Episodes - Fighting Russian Disinformation with Maria Adveeva - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.blackdiplomats.net/episodes/ukraines-nobel-peace-prize-winner-talks-solidarity-with-palestine-africa monthly 0.5 2024-03-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eeb29e545ae955623506e20/134cc1c2-0549-4518-9a35-4d8baea9afd8/Black+Diplomats+03-23-24+thumbnail.jpg Episodes - Ukraine’s Nobel Peace Prize Winner Talks Solidarity With Palestine, Africa - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.blackdiplomats.net/episodes/putins-bluffing-about-nukes monthly 0.5 2024-03-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eeb29e545ae955623506e20/ef9aa5f7-f622-425e-8a4d-db29a92d03ec/Black+Diplomats+03-16-24+thumbnail.jpg Episodes - Putin’s Bluffing About Nukes - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.blackdiplomats.net/episodes/ukraine-trump-and-building-solidarity-with-africans monthly 0.5 2024-03-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eeb29e545ae955623506e20/0885cf54-05bd-4d26-b954-4168be421e31/Black+Diplomats+03-10-24+thumbnail.jpg Episodes - Ukraine, Trump, and Building Solidarity With Africans - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.blackdiplomats.net/episodes/magas-white-nationalism-is-blocking-ukraine-military-aid-plus-thoughts-on-navalnys-death-and-african-refugees-who-fled-ukraine monthly 0.5 2024-02-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eeb29e545ae955623506e20/ec81db26-d5b7-4f85-a34c-f7ec464f42c8/Black+Diplomats+-+02-24-24+thumbnail.jpg Episodes - MAGA’s White Nationalism Is Blocking Ukraine Military Aid. Plus Thoughts on Navalny’s Death and African Refugees Who Fled Ukraine - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.blackdiplomats.net/episodes/black-diplomats-and-gaslit-nation monthly 0.5 2024-02-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eeb29e545ae955623506e20/40720745-3a30-409c-8ca2-8d288d7c58be/Black+Diplomats+02-20-24+image.jpg Episodes - Black Women Defending Democracy and Thoughts on Navalny’s Death - Black Diplomats w/ Gaslit Nation - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.blackdiplomats.net/episodes/palestine-special monthly 0.5 2023-10-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eeb29e545ae955623506e20/15b99b1b-bdbb-4f37-b4e6-3f79325e39c8/Gaza.jpeg Episodes - Palestine Special - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.blackdiplomats.net/episodes/liberating-iran-featuring-yegi-amp-jason-rezaian monthly 0.5 2023-09-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eeb29e545ae955623506e20/e7ac302a-c22f-4921-9f01-667a9ee9049b/h_51496198.jpg Episodes - Liberating Iran featuring Yegi & Jason Rezaian - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.blackdiplomats.net/episodes/liberating-iran-featuring-nahid-siamdoust monthly 0.5 2023-08-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eeb29e545ae955623506e20/2909e151-3cc1-4a9e-b21b-620e2d484952/ns43682-Nahid-Siamdoust-_BPI_220923_7304-scaled.jpg Episodes - Liberating Iran featuring Nahid Siamdoust - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.blackdiplomats.net/episodes/liberating-iran-featuring-pouya-alimagham monthly 0.5 2023-08-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eeb29e545ae955623506e20/7cc38abf-1d81-4e8d-a438-5401e12fd2a4/Alimagham.Pouya.Headshot.jpg Episodes - Liberating Iran featuring Pouya Alimagham - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.blackdiplomats.net/episodes/black-diplomats-presents-liberating-iran-1 monthly 0.5 2023-08-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eeb29e545ae955623506e20/7239546d-925c-4cc1-92d6-86b727127199/IMG_8177+copy.jpg Episodes - Black Diplomats presents: Liberating Iran - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.blackdiplomats.net/episodes/black-diplomats-presents-liberating-iran monthly 0.5 2023-07-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eeb29e545ae955623506e20/70861e7a-8c98-4814-8c60-7624197608f6/Black+Diplomats+-+Iran+series+-+banner+promo+1.jpg Episodes - Black Diplomats presents: Liberating Iran - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.blackdiplomats.net/episodes/wtf-is-going-on-in-russia monthly 0.5 2023-06-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eeb29e545ae955623506e20/4cb45d1e-d326-4992-840a-2515fa31a9ff/IMG_1876.jpeg Episodes - WTF IS GOING ON IN RUSSIA? - Make it stand out Dina Urich Helping to Leave https://www.blackdiplomats.net/episodes/kakhova-dam-explosion-and-fatima-muhammed-at-cuny monthly 0.5 2023-06-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eeb29e545ae955623506e20/bda0fed7-4377-41b3-ae39-bc917df1fedf/cuny-law-youtube.jpg Episodes - Kakhova dam explosion and Fatima Muhammed at CUNY - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.blackdiplomats.net/episodes/the-state-of-disinformation-with-shireen-mitchell monthly 0.5 2023-05-20 https://www.blackdiplomats.net/episodes/war-in-ukraine-sudan-and-remembering-shireen-abu-akleh monthly 0.5 2023-05-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eeb29e545ae955623506e20/02980ba5-5a92-4049-9f2a-82827f9c406e/BD+5-10-23+promo+2+Twitter.01_26_58_03.Still001.jpg Episodes - War in Ukraine, Sudan, and remembering Shireen Abu Akleh - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eeb29e545ae955623506e20/0fdd2b83-36e6-4ed9-9cff-03790d9120ba/Diana+Buttu.jpg Episodes - War in Ukraine, Sudan, and remembering Shireen Abu Akleh - Diana Buttu Diana Buttu is a lawyer and activist based in Palestine. Her commentary and writings have appeared in the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Boston Globe, The Nation, and The Guardian, with appearances on CNN, MSNBC, Al Jazeera and other networks. She also hosts a podcast titled “This is Palestine”. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eeb29e545ae955623506e20/c046a982-bfc2-4d15-be2b-27f505672b22/Sharif+Abdel+Kouddous.jpg Episodes - War in Ukraine, Sudan, and remembering Shireen Abu Akleh - Sharif Abdel Kouddous Sharif Abdel Kouddous is an independent print and television journalist based in New York and Cairo. He has covered Palestine numerous times over the past decade for The Nation, Democracy Now!, and other outlets, and he is the correspondent on the Fault Lines film “The Killing of Shireen Abu Akleh” on Al Jazeera English which received a George Polk Award. Sharif is also a producer of the Palestine Festival of Literature. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eeb29e545ae955623506e20/c774c3b2-1901-4004-813b-dd9c8ea571c4/Mutasim+pic.JPG Episodes - War in Ukraine, Sudan, and remembering Shireen Abu Akleh - Mutasim A. Ali Mutasim A. Ali is a legal advisor at the Raoul Wallenberg Center for Human Rights specialized in targeted human rights sanctions. Mr. Ali has a distinguished career in human rights activism both in Sudan and outside Sudan. His current practice focuses on international criminal law, international human rights and humanitarian law, transitional justice, and targeted human rights and anti-corruption sanctions. Previously, Mr. Ali served as a legal counsel at Project Expedite Justice, Civitas Maxima, as well as some counseling for the International Criminal Court. Currently, Mr. Ali is Doctor of Juridical Science Candidate at American University’s Washington College of Law. His research focuses on the interlinkage between peace and constitution-making processes. https://www.blackdiplomats.net/episodes/fighting-fascism-in-israel-europe-russia-and-the-us monthly 0.5 2023-05-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eeb29e545ae955623506e20/138506ed-36cb-4e72-bb86-9be8eec46df0/Black+Diplomats+5-2-23+screenshot.png Episodes - Fighting Fascism in Israel, Europe, Russia, and the U.S. - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.blackdiplomats.net/episodes/black-lives-matter-and-ukraine-resistance-talk-strategy monthly 0.5 2023-04-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eeb29e545ae955623506e20/bb0c6a63-1728-4f19-ab53-48106c931165/Screenshot+2023-04-25+at+11.31.45+AM.png Episodes - Fighting Russian Colonialism and Western White Supremacy - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eeb29e545ae955623506e20/26442813-72d0-4d25-afee-8369c2e44f99/LBrow2023Headshot.jpg Episodes - Fighting Russian Colonialism and Western White Supremacy - LaTosha Brown LaTosha Brown is an award-winning visionary thought leader, institution builder, Cultural Activist and Artist, and Connector. She is a nationally recognized, “go-to” expert in Black Voting Rights and Voter Suppression, Black Women’s Empowerment, and Philanthropy. Her voice is the nexus between the Civil Rights Movement, the Black Power Movement, and Black Lives Matter. “There is power in my voice! It is a divine gift that I use to connect different worlds. I bridge the philanthropy world to the grassroots community, traditional politics to grassroots politics, and practitioners to the scholarship of movement building.” LaTosha is the Co-Founder of Black Voters Matter Fund and Black Voters Matter Capacity Building Institute. These initiatives are designed to boost Black voter registration and turnout, as well as increase power in marginalized, predominantly Black communities. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eeb29e545ae955623506e20/a364fae1-a6cd-4fea-b67a-6500039c34fe/Maryna-Prykhodko-scaled.jpg Episodes - Fighting Russian Colonialism and Western White Supremacy - Maryna Prykhodko Maryna Prykhodko was born and raised in Kharkiv, Ukraine and currently resides in New York City, where she works in the music business but lives and breathes everything Ukrainian. Inspired by the irreversible spirit of Euromaidan, Maryna has volunteered with Razom since its beginning in 2014, and is now a proud board member and leader of the Razom Think initiative. https://www.blackdiplomats.net/episodes/black-diplomats-is-back-baby monthly 0.5 2023-04-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eeb29e545ae955623506e20/ae7d2f23-0a5a-4398-b764-b0d684fe89ac/Screenshot+2023-04-21+at+11.39.57+AM.png Episodes - Black Diplomats is back, baby! - Make it stand out Host Terrell Starr welcomes Nola Haynes and Earl Carr to the Black Diplomats news https://www.blackdiplomats.net/episodes/ukraine-takes-kherson monthly 0.5 2022-12-06 https://www.blackdiplomats.net/episodes/ukrainian-offensive-and-nato-membership-with-solomiia-bobrovska monthly 0.5 2022-12-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eeb29e545ae955623506e20/15732385-fa7f-4fc7-bae1-2e54fb3c90da/40d8e30e-06ae-41d4-a51d-a047c0c04fbc.jpg Episodes - Ukrainian Offensive and NATO Membership with Solomiia Bobrovska - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.blackdiplomats.net/episodes/russians-flee-to-georgia-on-vacation monthly 0.5 2022-12-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eeb29e545ae955623506e20/c0961346-c6c9-49c4-b809-b846670bb826/2022-09-26T163840Z_646559360_RC21PW93GLRN_RTRMADP_3_UKRAINE-CRISIS-MOBILISATION-GEORGIA-scaled.jpg Episodes - Russians Flee to Georgia on “Vacation” - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.blackdiplomats.net/episodes/war-with-friends-part-2 monthly 0.5 2022-12-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eeb29e545ae955623506e20/95b2a6b5-d405-4fb1-856a-05f287c5157d/Screen+Shot+2022-09-25+at+12.15.57+PM.png Episodes - War With Friends Part 2 - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.blackdiplomats.net/episodes/war-with-friends monthly 0.5 2022-12-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eeb29e545ae955623506e20/6f79fa40-7e27-47e4-8de4-9c24fc839ce5/226381.jpeg Episodes - War With Friends - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.blackdiplomats.net/episodes/war-in-ukraine-with-inna-sovsun monthly 0.5 2022-12-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eeb29e545ae955623506e20/de4b27d1-f7cc-49f7-a241-b98008802010/IMG_C6914BEAA6AD-1.jpeg Episodes - War in Ukraine with Inna Sovsun - Make it stand out Host Terrell Starr talked to Inna Sovsun at a café in Ukraine https://www.blackdiplomats.net/episodes/war-in-ukraine-with-mayor-oleg-volsky monthly 0.5 2022-12-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eeb29e545ae955623506e20/ac42642d-334a-4fed-bc4c-95234ca5ce2d/PHOTO-2022-03-21-14-04-34.jpg Episodes - War in Ukraine with Mayor Oleg Volsky - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.blackdiplomats.net/episodes/the-human-toll-of-war-in-ukraine monthly 0.5 2022-12-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eeb29e545ae955623506e20/b938d9bb-76c9-49e9-98cf-c88dfc5127f0/IMG_2071.JPG Episodes - The Human Toll of War in Ukraine - Make it stand out Terrell Starr with Irina Klimova at a bus line in Lviv, Ukraine. https://www.blackdiplomats.net/episodes/english-language-media-in-ukraine monthly 0.5 2022-12-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eeb29e545ae955623506e20/cc80f6f3-4a70-4db9-85fa-02f2d9dbbb8e/PET_9764-Copy1.jpg Episodes - English Language Media in Ukraine - Toma Istomina Toma Istomina is the deputy chief editor of the Kyiv Independent. She joined the Kyiv Post in 2017, working first as a staff writer, later taking the role of Lifestyle Editor and Features Editor. During Olga Rudenko’s Chicago Booth fellowship, she was the acting Deputy Chief Editor of the Kyiv Post. Toma holds a master’s in international broadcasting from Taras Shevchenko University. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eeb29e545ae955623506e20/0cffac54-dcc8-498e-b618-997d592108a9/39279390_10155882151273348_5277007316212776960_n.jpg Episodes - English Language Media in Ukraine - Romeo Kokriatski Romeo is a Ukrainian-born New York native that returned to the homeland after the Euromaidan, and has had a career in journalism spanning Ukrainian independent media, including Hromadske and Zaborona. Co-host and founder of independent podcast Ukraine Without Hype. Inveterate political junky. Romeo is a fan of video and tabletop games, and is chronically online at @VagrantJourno. https://www.blackdiplomats.net/episodes/russian-colonialism monthly 0.5 2022-12-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eeb29e545ae955623506e20/5bfb266e-fb81-407a-b286-8517310e889d/Alexander+Etkind.jpeg Episodes - Russian Colonialism - Alexander Etkind Alexander Etkind (born 1955, St. Petersburg, Russia) is a historian and cultural scientist. He is a professor of history and the Chair of Russia-Europe relations at the European University Institute. He is fellow of the European Institute for International Law and International Relations. He completed his B.A. and M.A. in 1978 in Psychology and English at Leningrad State University. In 1998, he defended PhD (Habilitation) in Slavonic Studies/ Cultural History at the University of Helsinki. Etkind taught at the European University at St. Petersburg then at Cambridge University where he was also a fellow of King's College. He was a visiting fellow at New York University, Wissenschaftskolleg in Berlin, and other places. Etkind's research focuses on European and Russian intellectual history, memory studies, natural resources and the history of political economy, empire and colonies in Europe, and Russian politics, novels and film in the 21st century. Etkind has publications in Russian and English, and speaks both languages https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eeb29e545ae955623506e20/b327717b-3e47-4d0c-8609-977bf6bd9214/Maksym+Eristavi.jpeg Episodes - Russian Colonialism - Maksym Eristavi I started as a Ukrainian reporter when I was just 16. I went from covering both Ukrainian pro-democratic revolutions, being the country’s youngest news anchor and newsroom manager to founding international operations at the leading news startup covering Eastern Europe, and becoming a contributor to leading global outlets, such as RFERL, BBC, CNN, Al-Jazeera, Reuters, Foreign Policy, Foreign Affairs, Politico and the Washington Post. At the same time, Bild and The New York Times called my tweets an essential source on the region. I led pioneering English-language coverage of the Russian disinformation warfare and human rights violations in Eastern Europe. I pioneered queer representation in Eastern European media and remain one of the few openly queer journalists in the region. I have been an outspoken voice in raising civil rights issues of the region abroad. https://www.blackdiplomats.net/episodes/ambassador-michael-mcfaul-on-ukrainerussia-relations monthly 0.5 2022-12-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eeb29e545ae955623506e20/238a4b9b-c35b-4245-ae03-32637239e700/440px-Michael_McFaul.jpg Episodes - Ambassador Michael McFaul on Ukraine/Russia Relations - Professor Michael McFaul Michael Anthony McFaul (born October 1, 1963) is an American academic and diplomat who served as the United States Ambassador to Russia from 2012 to 2014. McFaul is currently the Ken Olivier and Angela Nomellini Professor in International Studies in the Department of Political Science at Stanford University, where he is the Director of the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies. He is also a Peter and Helen Bing Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution. He is also a contributing columnist at The Washington Post. Prior to his nomination to the ambassadorial position, McFaul worked for the U.S. National Security Council as Special Assistant to the President and senior director of Russian and Eurasian affairs. In that capacity, he was the architect of U.S. President Barack Obama's Russian reset policy. https://www.blackdiplomats.net/episodes/german-russian-relations monthly 0.5 2022-12-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eeb29e545ae955623506e20/a29bc7cf-a557-4478-887b-f52a0c6b76f4/csm_Kluge_Janis_presse_205a45d01f.jpeg Episodes - German-Russian Relations - Janis Kluge Janis Kluge is a Senior Associate at the German Institute for International and Security Affairs (SWP) in Berlin, Germany. He holds a PhD in economics from Witten/Herdecke University. His research focuses on Russia’s economic development, domestic policy and sanctions. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eeb29e545ae955623506e20/54eacff4-47e9-4e24-8275-1ca9b223aa5b/Sarah+Pagung.jpeg Episodes - German-Russian Relations - Sarah Pagung Sarah Pagung has been DGAP associate fellow since February 2019. Her research focuses on Russian foreign and information policies and on Moldova. Until December 2018, Pagung worked as a program officer for the Robert Bosch Center for Central and Eastern Europe, Russia, and Central Asia, where she managed the discussion group on Russia and the Eastern Partnership as well as the joint project “A New Western Ostpolitik” with Johns Hopkins University. From 2013 to 2015, she worked in the project team of the Carl Friedrich Goerdeler Kolleg. Pagung is currently working on a doctorate on the impact of Russian propaganda and information policy on Germany at the Freie Universität Berlin, where she studied political science. She is also an adjunct lecturer there and serves as a seminar facilitator for various formats relating to European foreign policy and Eastern Europe. From 2012 to 2013, she worked in youth and adult education in Saint Petersburg on behalf of the European Voluntary Service’s German-Russian exchange program. https://www.blackdiplomats.net/episodes/ukrainian-security monthly 0.5 2022-12-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eeb29e545ae955623506e20/c417ea20-4ca4-4826-911a-03c9e375426c/Mykola+Bielieskov.jpg Episodes - Ukrainian Security - Mykola Bielieskov MA in international relations (2016). In September 2016-September 2019 worked in Ukrainian NGO "Institute of World Policy" as an analyst. Since October 2019 Research Fellow (Defense Policy Department) at National Institute for Strategic Studies under President of Ukraine. Fields of interest - Ukrainian and Russian Armed Forces, evolution of operational art. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eeb29e545ae955623506e20/b70e2d85-4137-4020-ac98-4a9f70a03b56/c32ce835-1cd5-4a50-b0eb-69084134ceaa.JPG Episodes - Ukrainian Security - Polina Sinovets Polina Sinovets is the head of the Odessa Center for Nonproliferation (OdCNP) at the Odessa I. I. Mechnikov National University (ONU), Ukraine. She is also Associate Professor in the International Relations Department at ONU. Previously Dr. Sinovets served as senior research associate at Ukraine's National Institute for Strategic Studies, as well as a fellow at the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies and NATO Defense College. She is an expert in nuclear weapons policy and published articles in the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, Russia in Global Politics, NATO Defense College Research Papers etc. https://www.blackdiplomats.net/episodes/crisis-in-kazakhstan monthly 0.5 2022-12-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eeb29e545ae955623506e20/822825bd-1c73-4e7d-a86b-789edbb15137/1612165453_66333600.png Episodes - Crisis in Kazakhstan - Dr. Asel Doolotkeldieva Dr. Asel Doolotkeldieva teaches graduate courses in Political Science at the OSCE Academy in Bishkek. She earned her PhD from the University of Exeter (UK) in Politics and her Masters’ degree from Sciences Po Paris. Previously, she was a Visiting Fellow at College Mondial, FMSH (Paris, France). Her academic interests include social mobilizations, regime transition and democratization, postsocialism, and political economy of resource extraction in Central Asia. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eeb29e545ae955623506e20/6925bfca-bf71-4178-8345-8d087aca0acd/PSC_+453.jpg Episodes - Crisis in Kazakhstan - Dr. Diana T. Kudaibergenova Dr Diana T. Kudaibergenova is a lecturer in Political Sociology at the Department of Sociology, University of Cambridge. She is the author of recently published "Toward Nationalizing Regimes. Power and Identity in the Post-Soviet Realm" (Pittsburgh, 2020) study on complex regime-society relations and nation-building processes and a forthcoming study about contentious politics under authoritarianism. https://www.blackdiplomats.net/episodes/american-insurrection monthly 0.5 2022-12-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eeb29e545ae955623506e20/20b6c6b3-bf9d-4d4b-8977-ff783f918dbc/tr-photosite.jpg Episodes - American Insurrection - Ira Lupu Ira Lupu is a photographer, multimedia artist, and writer born in Odesa, Ukraine, and currently based in New York City. She is a graduate of the New Media Narratives program at the International Center of Photography (NYC), and Viktor Marushchenko’s School of Photography (Kyiv). Ira Lupu’s work explores the intersection of documentary and metaphorical space, where the carefully researched human worlds collide with ethereality. A core part of her photography is centered around the female experience — in her own body, emotional mind, or given environment. https://www.blackdiplomats.net/episodes/2021-wrap-with-pam-keith monthly 0.5 2022-12-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eeb29e545ae955623506e20/20193389-c068-4c01-b161-a9d57294e302/pam+keith+pic.jpeg Episodes - 2021 Wrap with Pam Keith - Pam Keith Pam Keith served in the United States Navy from 1995 to 1999. She earned bachelor's and master's degrees from the University of California, Davis, in 1990 and 1992, respectively, and a J.D. from Boston College Law School in 1995. Keith's career experience includes working as an attorney. Keith has been admitted to the bar in the District of Columbia, Indiana and Illinois. She has served as a board member of Faith, Love, Hope Charity, Inc., a mentor in the Boys and Girls Clubs of Riviera Beach, and a member of the Zeta Rho Omega chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority. https://www.blackdiplomats.net/episodes/fall-of-the-ussr monthly 0.5 2022-12-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eeb29e545ae955623506e20/f8d66211-389b-4c9a-9807-faba3a485b7b/DSC09665+%281%29.JPG Episodes - Fall of the USSR - Olga Tokariuk Olga Tokariuk is an independent journalist and researcher based in Kyiv, Ukraine. Her professional interests include Ukrainian and international politics, study of disinformation and its impact on democracies worldwide. Olga has vast experience working with Ukrainian and international media, such as EFE news agency (Spain), RAI, ANSA (Italy), BuzzFeed News, NPR (USA), ABC (Australia), RSI (Switzerland). She is a former head of foreign news desk at the independent Ukrainian Hromadske TV. Olga co-authored an investigative documentary about a controversial trial of Ukrainian soldier Vitaliy Markiv in Italy, and published a research paper on the role of Russian disinformation in this case Olga Tokariuk holds an MA in political science and international relations from the University of Bologna (Italy) and in journalism from the Taras Shevchenko University of Kyiv (Ukraine). She is an alumna of the disinformation research program at the Atlantic Council’s DFR Lab. Olga speaks fluent English and Italian. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eeb29e545ae955623506e20/d43f5efb-ae94-4254-aa2e-1087662c77ce/231B908B-477D-4D91-90FD-7A201E5A4074_1_105_c.jpeg Episodes - Fall of the USSR - Illia Ponomarenko Illia Ponomarenko is the defense and security reporter at the Kyiv Independent. He has reported about the war in eastern Ukraine since the conflict’s earliest days. He covers national security issues, as well as military technologies, production, and defense reforms in Ukraine. Besides, he gets deployed to the war zone of Donbas with Ukrainian combat formations. He has also had deployments to Palestine and the Democratic Republic of the Congo as an embedded reporter with UN peacekeeping forces. Illia won the Alfred Friendly Press Partners fellowship and was selected to work as USA Today's guest reporter at the U.S. Department of Defense. https://www.blackdiplomats.net/episodes/black-amp-queer-in-central-asia-aka-twerking-in-kyrgyzstan-pg5ss monthly 0.5 2022-12-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eeb29e545ae955623506e20/12c5892c-2448-43b4-a9cf-b6160d27c43b/Alexa+Kurmanov Episodes - Black & Queer in Central Asia (aka Twerking in Kyrgyzstan) Part 2 - Alexa Kurmanova Alexa Kurmanova, PhD Student, Dept. of Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley, does research focused on intersectionality and the category of “woman” in (post)socialist Central Asia, more specifically in urban and rural Kyrgyzstan. They are interested in categories of queerness, Blackness, colonialism, and Trans and feminist activism in Central Asia and Russia. Their research interests stem from previous experiences in studying the global coalition between Black Nationalism in the United States and the anti-racist campaigns in the Soviet Union in the early part of the 20th century— offering insights on the figure of Blackness/the Black identity in the Soviet and post-Soviet space. https://www.blackdiplomats.net/episodes/black-amp-queer-in-central-asia-aka-twerking-in-kyrgyzstan monthly 0.5 2022-12-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eeb29e545ae955623506e20/12c5892c-2448-43b4-a9cf-b6160d27c43b/Alexa+Kurmanov Episodes - Black & Queer in Central Asia (aka Twerking in Kyrgyzstan) - Alexa Kurmanova Alexa Kurmanova, PhD Student, Dept. of Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley, does research focused on intersectionality and the category of “woman” in (post)socialist Central Asia, more specifically in urban and rural Kyrgyzstan. They are interested in categories of queerness, Blackness, colonialism, and Trans and feminist activism in Central Asia and Russia. Their research interests stem from previous experiences in studying the global coalition between Black Nationalism in the United States and the anti-racist campaigns in the Soviet Union in the early part of the 20th century— offering insights on the figure of Blackness/the Black identity in the Soviet and post-Soviet space. https://www.blackdiplomats.net/episodes/how-american-exceptionalism-robs-haiti monthly 0.5 2022-12-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eeb29e545ae955623506e20/1628972098569-CHLHWSOQ605XFJC6B7G6/1600px-Flag_of_Haiti_%281859%E2%80%931964%29.svg.png Episodes - How American Exceptionalism Robs Haiti - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eeb29e545ae955623506e20/1628975790406-GBRK1N9W8FJ9QPOUCGK6/Headshot-2-1913x2048-1.jpg Episodes - How American Exceptionalism Robs Haiti - Emma Ashford Emma Ashford is a resident senior fellow with the New American Engagement Initiative in the Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security, which focuses on challenging the prevailing assumptions governing US foreign policy and seeks to develop effective solutions that preserve America’s security and prosperity. Her work focuses on questions of grand strategy, international security, and the future of US foreign policy. She has expertise in the politics of Russia, Europe, and the Middle East. https://www.blackdiplomats.net/episodes/producers-note monthly 0.5 2022-12-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eeb29e545ae955623506e20/1621532556470-VI11YQ3IXFU2VJ2S0DAV/BD+Mono+%2B+text.jpg Episodes - Producer’s Note - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.blackdiplomats.net/episodes/recognizing-the-armenian-diaspora monthly 0.5 2022-12-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eeb29e545ae955623506e20/1620519548480-NRD1EFJVZHT77W3Q0CZR/armenian+flag.jpeg Episodes - Recognizing the Armenian Diaspora https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eeb29e545ae955623506e20/1620520536321-X78OK05BGYE3N00Q27FS/IMG_0469+2.jpg Episodes - Recognizing the Armenian Diaspora - Sophia Armen Sophia Armen is organizer, writer, and scholar from Los Angeles, California. She is the Co-Director of the Armenian-American Action Network, an organization dedicated to fighting anti-Armenian racism and for the communities’ civil rights, and the descendant of Armenian Genocide survivors from Van, Kharpert, Istanbul and Hadjin. https://www.blackdiplomats.net/episodes/jewel-of-the-caucasus monthly 0.5 2022-12-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eeb29e545ae955623506e20/1619943883178-D5W4Y0KGUGMY6HKMQTYU/georgia-flag-waving_1498-34.jpeg Episodes - Jewel of the Caucasus https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eeb29e545ae955623506e20/1619944731570-VNNCQTEYRVTFJ583V6AW/Eka_Gigauri%2C_Executive_Director_of_Transparency_International_%2844851965204%29.jpg Episodes - Jewel of the Caucasus - Eka Gigauri Eka Gigauri is a public figure and a civic activist who has served as the Executive Director of Transparency International Georgia, the national chapter of the global Transparency International anti-corruption movement, since December 21, 2010. In 2019 Eka Gigauri was elected as a board member of Transparency International Global movement. https://www.blackdiplomats.net/episodes/ukraine-navalny-and-other-people-putin-is-trying-to-kill monthly 0.5 2022-12-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eeb29e545ae955623506e20/1619295126679-Q3I1L425CCVA9AYJ405I/Olga+Tokariuk.JPG Episodes - Ukraine, Navalny, and other people Putin is trying to kill - Olga Tokariuk Olga Tokariuk is an independent journalist, freelance correspondent for the Spanish news agency EFE based in Kyiv, Ukraine. Her interests include international relations, disinformation research and OSINT. She is the co-author of an investigative documentary about a controversial Vitaliy Markiv trial in Italy and the author of a research paper on the role of Kremlin disinformation in it. Olga has vast experience with TV and print media in Ukraine and abroad, she is the former head of foreign desk at the independent Hromadske TV. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eeb29e545ae955623506e20/1619292509870-IE9W0YD66GRUSWR3UTSO/Navalny+pic.jpeg Episodes - Ukraine, Navalny, and other people Putin is trying to kill https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eeb29e545ae955623506e20/1619295183842-M883U5WIWDSNSF13TR9T/Eilish+Hart.JPG Episodes - Ukraine, Navalny, and other people Putin is trying to kill - Eilish Hart Eilish Hart is the news editor at the English-language edition of Meduza, a Riga-based outlet covering Russia and the former Soviet Union. She is also an Associate Scholar in the Eurasia Program at the Foreign Policy Research Institute (FPRI) and the editor of the BMB Ukraine Brief, a biweekly newsletter focusing on political, economic, and security issues in Ukraine. Eilish holds an MA in European and Russian Affairs from the University of Toronto. https://www.blackdiplomats.net/episodes/vets-want-us-out-of-afghanistan monthly 0.5 2022-12-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eeb29e545ae955623506e20/1618775297936-3HCS3IEUV47M0F6R1O8F/packing+it+up.jpeg Episodes - Vets Want Us Out of Afghanistan https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eeb29e545ae955623506e20/1618775990250-K90CIOX6JF0S76V49154/isiah+james+pic.jpg Episodes - Vets Want Us Out of Afghanistan - Isiah James ISIAH JAMES is a Jamaican-American community organizer and Army veteran who served two tours in Iraq and one in Afghanistan during his 8 years in service. Isiah ran for Congress in central Brooklyn’s 9th Congressional District in 2019. He is a graduate of Brooklyn College and is pursuing a Masters in Public Administration at Baruch College in New York City. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eeb29e545ae955623506e20/1618776091896-83EU1PDGKE1OZBDXX3QV/Brittany+Ramos+Debaros.jpeg Episodes - Vets Want Us Out of Afghanistan - Brittany Ramos Debarros Brittany came to About Face: Veterans Against the War with a diverse mix of business, military and non-profit leadership experiences that cemented her deep passion and commitment to intersectional movement building work. She deployed to Afghanistan for a year in 2012 and has worked on economic and racial liberation issues in various capacities since she returned. She is particularly passionate about leveraging her experience as a Psychological Operations Officer to center narrative and behavior change in campaign strategy. She is based in NYC. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eeb29e545ae955623506e20/1618776223308-YD588WK2IKG5PYAXCI1Z/Richard+Brookshire.jpeg Episodes - Vets Want Us Out of Afghanistan - Richard Brookshire Richard Brookshire co-founded Black Veterans Project in the Fall of 2018. As a storyteller who leverages innovative and integrated marketing and communications, government affairs and documentary filmmaking to deliver strategic and dynamic social-impact campaigns — his portfolio to date spans across issues relating to racial and economic justice, workforce development, diversity and inclusion, and military and veteran affairs. Richard received an M.P.A. in urban policy with a specialization in media and advocacy from Columbia University and is a former Combat Medic and U.S. Army Veteran of the War in Afghanistan. https://www.blackdiplomats.net/episodes/pam-keith-on-matt-gaetz-and-dems-in-florida monthly 0.5 2022-12-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eeb29e545ae955623506e20/1618094971604-23FIRBZQOLGSR3K0VF7A/BD40+promo+2+raw+pic.png Episodes - Pam Keith on Matt Gaetz and Dems in Florida https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eeb29e545ae955623506e20/1618095939777-96KJILE96B28JQWNHE84/pam+keith+pic.jpeg Episodes - Pam Keith on Matt Gaetz and Dems in Florida - Pam Keith Pam Keith served in the United States Navy from 1995 to 1999. She earned bachelor's and master's degrees from the University of California, Davis, in 1990 and 1992, respectively, and a J.D. from Boston College Law School in 1995. Keith's career experience includes working as an attorney. Keith has been admitted to the bar in the District of Columbia, Indiana and Illinois. She has served as a board member of Faith, Love, Hope Charity, Inc., a mentor in the Boys and Girls Clubs of Riviera Beach, and a member of the Zeta Rho Omega chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority. https://www.blackdiplomats.net/episodes/black-diplomats-on-the-power-vertical monthly 0.5 2022-12-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eeb29e545ae955623506e20/1617562714657-QER6QHFS8VM1PF807ZLY/Power-Vertical+logo.png Episodes - Black Diplomats on The Power Vertical https://www.blackdiplomats.net/episodes/georgian-political-crisis-with-george-khelashvili-of-georgian-dream monthly 0.5 2022-12-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eeb29e545ae955623506e20/1617043596904-1DXSBFGLT1BXVAHF8E9R/George+Khelashvili.jpeg Episodes - Georgian political crisis with George Khelashvili of Georgian Dream - Dr. George Khelashvili George Khelashvili is majority Georgian Dream MP, serving as first deputy chairman of the foreign relations committee. Previously, he directed the Research Center of the Parliament of Georgia; served as adviser to the chairman of Georgian Parliament; and also worked for Georgian Foreign Ministry first as policy analyst, then as deputy director of the Political Department, and, finally, as deputy chief of mission at the Georgian Embassy in Washington, D.C.. George Khelashvili taught International Relations at Tbilisi State University for over 20 years. He graduated from Tbilisi State University and then obtained M.Phil. degree and later defended his doctoral thesis at the University of Oxford. Follow him on Twitter. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eeb29e545ae955623506e20/1617041847825-ODVT44TVH1J4UQJAYPPK/1024px-Logo_of_Georgian_Dream_%E2%80%93_Democratic_Georgia.svg.png Episodes - Georgian political crisis with George Khelashvili of Georgian Dream https://www.blackdiplomats.net/episodes/georgian-political-crisis-with-sergi-kapanadze monthly 0.5 2022-12-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eeb29e545ae955623506e20/1616268413923-YD131E9R7IX33CM2YR79/Georgia+-+EU+pic+by+Giorgi+Eliozashvili.jpeg Episodes - Georgian political crisis with Sergi Kapanadze Georgia hopes to join the EU in 2024 Photo by Giorgi Eliozashvili https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eeb29e545ae955623506e20/1616269466276-H4VYSUKAJ71T10SX32UI/20210320_165037.jpg Episodes - Georgian political crisis with Sergi Kapanadze - Dr. Sergi Kapanadze In 2016-2020 Dr. Kapanadze was a vice-speaker of the Parliament of Georgia from the European Georgia opposition party. He is also a Professor of Peace Studies, International relations and European integration at the Ilia State University (Tbilisi) and a Jean Monnet Professor at the Caucasus University (Tbilisi). Before joining politics he served as the director of the think tank - Georgia’s Reforms Associates (Tbilisi). In 2015-2016 he was a member of the OSCE Panel of Eminent Persons on European security. Dr. Kapanadze has previously held the post of the deputy Foreign Minister (2011-2012) and other senior posts at the foreign service of Georgia, during which he led Georgian delegations in various negotiations with Russia, European Union and United States. He holds PhD in International relations from the Tbilisi State University (2011) and MA in International Relations and European Studies from the Central European University (2003, Budapest, Hungary). He was awarded a Presidential of Order of Excellence in 2011 and holds the diplomatic rank of Envoy Plenipotentiary. Follow him on Twitter. https://www.blackdiplomats.net/episodes/matt-duss-has-some-advice-for-bernie-sanders monthly 0.5 2022-12-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eeb29e545ae955623506e20/1615671866414-I8G7D5YAEUZ92Q2XYJUV/Bernie+Sanders+w%3A+Matt+Duss.jpeg Episodes - Matt Duss has some advice for Bernie Sanders Matt Duss sits in the Senate chamber while Sen. Bernie Sanders gives a speech about the war in Yemen https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eeb29e545ae955623506e20/1615672942211-UOMD3JDE7BS404ISMR6V/Matt+Duss+thinking+pic+raw.jpeg Episodes - Matt Duss has some advice for Bernie Sanders - Matt Duss Matt Duss is a journalist and advisor who worked at the Center for American Progress, and the Foundation for Middle East Peace before joining Sen. Bernie Sanders as his foreign policy advisor. Follow him on Twitter. https://www.blackdiplomats.net/episodes/navalny-race-amp-russia monthly 0.5 2022-12-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eeb29e545ae955623506e20/1615025193069-UE9Y0S8KWQDACPFNRP0J/profil_lmu.png Episodes - Navalny, Race & Russia - Dr. Rano Turaeva Dr. Rano Turaeva is a habilitating candidate at the Ludwig Maximillian University and an associated researcher at Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology in Halle Saale in Germany. She is currently working on the second book on Migration and Islam in Russia. She has been writing on the topics of migration, entrepreneurship, informal economies, gender, border studies, identity and inter-ethnic relations among many other topics which she published in such journals as Central Asian Affairs, Central Asian Survey, Inner Asia, Communist and post-Communist studies, Anthropology of Middle East among other journals. Her book based on her PhD thesis is out with Routledge in 2016 under the title `Migration and Identity: the Uzbek Experience`. Follow her on Twitter. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eeb29e545ae955623506e20/1615024015637-KARJ38PWAHS16KEJJR1B/Navalny+pic.jpeg Episodes - Navalny, Race & Russia Russian opposition politician Alexei Navalny at a protest. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eeb29e545ae955623506e20/1615025453791-3T9QO9LHA1UXFJMUVCIU/irina+kuznetsova.jpeg Episodes - Navalny, Race & Russia - Dr. Irina Kuznetsova Dr. Irina Kuznetsova is a Birmingham Fellow and a Lecturer at the School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences at the University of Birmingham, UK. She is also an associated member of the Institute for Research into Superdiversity at the University of Birmingham and a Fellow of the Intercontinental Academia. Kuznetsova’s research expertise includes migration, health, and critical urbanism and covers Russia, Central Asia, Ukraine, and Nigeria. Examining the social aftermath of population displacement from Ukraine’s war-torn territories, she led several research projects which were presented internationally at Chatham House, European Asylum Office, and Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre, among others. Follow her on Twitter. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eeb29e545ae955623506e20/1615024917237-YGKDYXVYF2VJNCKCXI2J/KSV_headshot2.jpg Episodes - Navalny, Race & Russia - Kimberly St. Julian-Varnon Kimberly St. Julian-Varnon is a Ph.D. student in History at the University of Pennsylvania. Her work examines Black experience in the USSR and how the presence of Black people shaped ideas and understandings of race, ethnicity, and nationality policy in the Soviet Union and post-Soviet space. Follow her on Twitter. https://www.blackdiplomats.net/episodes/rep-karen-bass-wants-diversity-in-the-state-department monthly 0.5 2022-12-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eeb29e545ae955623506e20/1614452467052-91V1XEFU7WU0L7FMUOS1/Official+Headshot.jpg Episodes - Rep. Karen Bass Wants Diversity in the State Department Representative Karen Bass was a foreign policy wonk before she knew it was a job. https://www.blackdiplomats.net/episodes/black-amp-asian-solidarity-with-alicia-garza-and-shaw-san-liu monthly 0.5 2022-12-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eeb29e545ae955623506e20/1614161233003-ZNATWWT2TE6GC9UOZYV0/promo+2+pic.jpg Episodes - Black & Asian Solidarity with Alicia Garza and Shaw San Liu Activists from the Asian diaspora who were inspired by the original Black Panther Party https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eeb29e545ae955623506e20/1614162108380-G6NMCMYPBDSU8LJ61XLJ/Shaw+San.jpg Episodes - Black & Asian Solidarity with Alicia Garza and Shaw San Liu - Shaw San Liu Shaw San Liu is the Executive Director at the Chinese Progressive Association. In her 14 years at CPA, Shaw San led the development of grassroots organizing and leadership development programs with the Tenant Worker Center, which includes services for low-wage Chinese immigrant workers and tenants living in San Francisco’s Chinatown. She also spearheaded campaign and alliance building to advance policy on labor and economic issues in the Bay Area. She co-founded the Progressive Worker Alliance, an alliance of low-wage worker centers in San Francisco and has extensive experience with labor and community organizing. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eeb29e545ae955623506e20/1614162633679-Y23SAMLHR7WY14A1R40L/AliciaGarza_105.jpg Episodes - Black & Asian Solidarity with Alicia Garza and Shaw San Liu - Alicia Garza Alicia believes that Black communities deserve what all communities deserve -- to be powerful in every aspect of their lives. An author, political strategist, organizer, and cheeseburger enthusiast, Alicia founded the Black Futures Lab to make Black communities powerful in politics. In 2018, the Black Futures Lab conducted the Black Census Project -- the largest survey of Black communities in over 150 years. Alicia is the co-creator of #BlackLivesMatter and the Black Lives Matter Global Network, an international organizing project to end state violence and oppression against Black people. The Black Lives Matter Global Network now has 40 chapters in four countries. She also serves as the Strategy & Partnerships Director for the National Domestic Workers Alliance, the nation’s premier voice for millions of domestic workers in the United States. Additionally, Alicia is the co-founder of Supermajority, a new home for women’s activism. https://www.blackdiplomats.net/episodes/building-peace-with-iran monthly 0.5 2022-12-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eeb29e545ae955623506e20/1613851690775-F9TOCGLDR6EVC8Y87A5A/peace+w%3A+iran.jpg Episodes - Building Peace with Iran The Iranian flag flies over Tehran https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eeb29e545ae955623506e20/1613854280665-PV55VW97R8VSS2K1DPBB/michelle+dover.jpg Episodes - Building Peace with Iran - Michelle Dover Michelle is the director of programs at Ploughshares Fund, where she leads the grantmaking team. She provides guidance on grantmaking strategies, performance and direction to the program team and Ploughshares leadership, as well as conducting due diligence on grants. Prior to joining Ploughshares Fund in 2015, Michelle conducted research at the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies on nuclear, chemical, and biological cooperative threat reduction programs. She was previously a Nonproliferation Graduate Fellow at the National Nuclear Security Administration, where she worked on International Atomic Energy Agency safeguards. Michelle holds a master’s degree in conflict resolution from American University and graduated with honors from the University of Denver with a degree in international studies and French. Read selected works written by Dover here. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eeb29e545ae955623506e20/1613854216481-84JEBW78IFMN82A8UXBX/GeranmayehPortrait-reedit.jpg Episodes - Building Peace with Iran - Ellie Geranmayeh Ellie Geranmayeh is a senior policy fellow and deputy head of the Middle East and North Africa programme at the European Council on Foreign Relations. She specializes in European foreign policy in relation to Iran, particularly on the nuclear and regional dossiers and sanctions policy. Geranmayeh advised European governments and companies on the nuclear negotiations between Iran and world powers from 2013-2015 and continues to brief senior policy makers on how to effectively safeguard the implementation of the nuclear agreement. Prior to joining ECFR, Geranmayeh worked at Herbert Smith Freehills law firm. She graduated in Law from the University of Cambridge. Follow her work on Twitter https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eeb29e545ae955623506e20/1613854127403-ZPF632PCOE2BM2PII7NL/Negar_Mortazavi.jpg Episodes - Building Peace with Iran - Negar Mortazavi Negar Mortazavi is an Iranian-American journalist and political analyst based in Washington. She has been covering Iranian affairs and US-Iran relations for over a decade. She is a columnist for The Independent and host of the Iran Podcast. She is a frequent media analyst on Iran and has appeared on CNN, MSNBC, NPR, BBC, France24, Aljazeera, and other media outlets in China, Turkey, and Israel. Negar regularly writes on Iranian politics and US foreign policy towards the middle east. Her pieces have appeared in Foreign Policy, The Intercept, Politico, Huffington Post, and elsewhere. She frequently speaks about Iranian affairs at international institutions including the Atlantic Council, Gulf International Forum, MIT, Johns Hopkins University, and American University among others. Find out more at negarmortazavi.com https://www.blackdiplomats.net/episodes/turning-florida-blue-with-pam-keith monthly 0.5 2022-12-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eeb29e545ae955623506e20/1613555125558-Y1Y8BAI5I4FFZ2R4B5CA/pam%2Bkeith%2Bpic.jpg Episodes - Turning Florida Blue with Pam Keith https://www.blackdiplomats.net/episodes/impeaching-white-supremacy-with-pam-keith monthly 0.5 2022-12-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eeb29e545ae955623506e20/1613262555399-VXSPEWKWKHIILGG5D2C7/pam+keith+pic.jpeg Episodes - Impeaching White Supremacy with Pam Keith https://www.blackdiplomats.net/episodes/rethinking-america-with-malcolm-nance monthly 0.5 2022-12-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eeb29e545ae955623506e20/1612702060887-F2FQES7LPGNDJXB6D0KI/Malcolm+Nance+pic.jpeg Episodes - Rethinking America with Malcolm Nance https://www.blackdiplomats.net/episodes/black-diplomats-on-pod-save-the-world monthly 0.5 2022-12-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eeb29e545ae955623506e20/1612395401302-Q4CBWET9Y1E7RVPPZ3KV/pod-save-the-world-series-hero-desktop.jpg Episodes - Black Diplomats on Pod Save The World https://www.blackdiplomats.net/episodes/black-diplomats-on-press-the-button monthly 0.5 2022-12-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eeb29e545ae955623506e20/1611574747249-Y9I8P4KN0QXOXQCBIVDC/1200x630_press-the-button.png Episodes - Black Diplomats on Press the Button https://www.blackdiplomats.net/episodes/the-white-supremacist-insurrection monthly 0.5 2022-12-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eeb29e545ae955623506e20/1610830993686-TMHZMRMCUQXUPS8FVJX9/image-asset.jpeg Episodes - The White Supremacist Insurrection - Arti Walker-Peddakotla Arti Walker-Peddakotla is an Oak Park Village Trustee, Director of Engineering for a non-profit tech company, a first generation Indian American, U.S. Army veteran, community organizer, law student, and microbiologist. Arti advocates for racial justice and reimagining community safety with Freedom to Thrive Oak Park and Vets for the People, a project of the Working Families Party. In addition to co-founding Freedom to Thrive Oak Park, Arti is the co-founder of Activate Oak Park, a PAC with a mission to elect progressive candidates to local office in Oak Park, IL. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eeb29e545ae955623506e20/1610830236453-PHU2B3205PL103EJJ6DF/white+supremacist+insurrection.jpg Episodes - The White Supremacist Insurrection https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eeb29e545ae955623506e20/1610831038530-YECBA4H2AW6YQ369MP4O/image-asset.jpeg Episodes - The White Supremacist Insurrection - Shaniyat Chowdhury Shaniyat Chowdhury is a former Congressional candidate in NY5. He is an educator, organizer, and marine corps veteran from South Jamaica, Queens. As an international relations graduate student at New York University. Shan is an advocate for immigrant and human rights for the international community. https://www.blackdiplomats.net/episodes/georgia-runoff-with-latosha-brown monthly 0.5 2022-12-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eeb29e545ae955623506e20/1610213865180-6T5SN2XZ41DILALC8TNO/Ms.+LaTosha+Brown+2.jpeg Episodes - Georgia Runoff with LaTosha Brown - Ms. LaTosha Brown LaTosha Brown is an award-winning organizer, philanthropic consultant, political strategist and jazz singer with over twenty years of experience working in the non-profit and philanthropy sectors on a wide variety of issues related to political empowerment, social justice, economic development, leadership development, wealth creation and civil rights. She is the co-founder of Black Voters Matter Fund, a power building southern based civic engagement organization that played an instrumental role in the 2017 Alabama U.S. Senate race. Ms. Brown is principal owner of TruthSpeaks Consulting, Inc., a philanthropy advisory consulting firm in Atlanta, GA. For more than 25 years, she has served as a consultant and advisor for individual donors, government, public foundations and private donors. Throughout her career, Ms. Brown has distinguished herself as a trusted expert and resource in political strategy, rural development and special programming for a number of national and regional philanthropies. She is the founding project director of Grantmakers for Southern Progress. Follow her on Twitter to keep up with her busy life. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eeb29e545ae955623506e20/1610213162118-OSM7CL53BLPWA0K4KLM4/Ms.+LaTosha+Brown.jpeg Episodes - Georgia Runoff with LaTosha Brown Ms. LaTosha Brown fires up the crowd https://www.blackdiplomats.net/episodes/black-diplomats-news-show-with-asha-castleberry-hernandez-and-lovely-umayam monthly 0.5 2022-12-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eeb29e545ae955623506e20/1609716322597-OFFWRL25CZWYUMZ0TV6A/lovely-umayam.png Episodes - Black Diplomats News Show with Asha Castleberry-Hernandez and Lovely Umayam - Lovely Umayam Lovely is the founder of Bombshelltoe (www.bombshelltoe.com), a creative incubator linking artists, community organizers, and nuclear experts together to present nuclear policy in a compelling and impactful way to the greater public. Bombshelltoe was the winner of the inaugural US Department of State’s Innovation in Arms Control Challenge. Currently in development at Bombshelltoe is Ways of Knowing, a multimedia project in partnership with Navajo community members that showcases hope and resilience after decades of uranium mining in the American Southwest. Bombshelltoe recently completed the DC installation of The Color Curtain Project, an art book and culinary experience that examines the origins of the Non-Aligned Movement and the interplay between colonialism, racism, and nuclear weapons. Lovely is also a Non-Resident Fellow at the Stimson Center in Washington DC, where she is the lead researcher exploring potential applications of breakthrough technologies (blockchain) to improve nuclear security. Lovely’s policy research and creative work have been featured in Fast Company, SXSW, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, The Atlantic, Vice, PopTech, The New Republic, MoMA PS1, the Associated Press, among others. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eeb29e545ae955623506e20/1609716187252-87KQR3TLBUNZ3XPOUAR4/Asha+Castleberry-Hernandez+pic.jpeg Episodes - Black Diplomats News Show with Asha Castleberry-Hernandez and Lovely Umayam - Asha Castleberry-Hernandez Asha Castleberry is a professor, military advisor and officer in the U.S. Army Reserve. Asha currently serves on the Board of Advisors of Women of Color Advancing Peace & Security, is a 2018 recipient of the Robert Myers Carnegie Council of Ethics and International Affairs Fellows Fund researching populism in the defense community. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eeb29e545ae955623506e20/1609715212525-WJW3SU8CKF98PYSHHAVM/Firework.jpg Episodes - Black Diplomats News Show with Asha Castleberry-Hernandez and Lovely Umayam Black Diplomats is back for 2021! https://www.blackdiplomats.net/episodes/reimagining-safety monthly 0.5 2022-12-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eeb29e545ae955623506e20/1607493395413-IEENXMLS70MXC5JKGNU5/Pam+Campos-Palma.jpeg Episodes - Reimagining Safety - Pam Campos-Palma Pam Campos-Palma is an impactful political strategist and movement builder focused on peace and security, equity engineering, and movement building at home and across borders. She is an often consulted and trusted adviser to national-level leaders, organizations, think tanks, and campaigns, expertly bridging the gap between grassroots movement and grasstops policy worlds to win lasting change. At the core of all her work is the democratization of foreign/defense/security policy through the leadership development, coalition building, and political organizing of war-affected peoples, namely the vets/military community. She is also engaged in transatlantic work around populism and defeating rising global ethno-nationalism and autocratic powers. Pam served in the U.S. Air Force for over a decade as an operations and anti-terrorism intelligence analyst working in Germany, Kyrgyzstan, Iraq and Afghanistan. She began her career in the immigrant rights movement, served as a gubernatorial appointee for the state of Oregon, and as a consultant to international NGO’s and social impact ventures. For more information go to her website. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eeb29e545ae955623506e20/1607492609377-C3A9XPM2OH138QKYH7FJ/Melissa+Bryant+%26+Father.jpeg Episodes - Reimagining Safety - Melissa Bryant and her father, two members of a multi-generational military family. Melissa is a noted veterans and military advocate and thought leader with 20 years of combined experience in federal government management, nonprofit advocacy, and nonprofit executive leadership. She was most recently the National Legislative Director for The American Legion, and previously served as the Chief Policy Officer for Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America (IAVA). A former Army Captain and Operation Iraqi Freedom veteran, Melissa's extensive record of public service includes critical roles in both military and civil service as a senior intelligence officer. As a Department of Defense and Intelligence Community plans, policy, and operations managing expert, she served in key leadership positions with the Defense Intelligence Agency, the Joint Staff, the United States Military Academy, and Army Intelligence. She was successful in building “coalitions of the willing” to advance operational and strategic objectives while developing and implementing plans and policy for the defense and intelligence communities. Follow Melissa on Twitter to keep up with her new work. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eeb29e545ae955623506e20/1607489847083-RUB45MTXUWX5235U9H3N/david-vine-us-military-bases-2015.jpg Episodes - Reimagining Safety A map of US military bases around the world https://www.blackdiplomats.net/episodes/former-black-american-cia-operative-analyses-americas-fractured-democracy monthly 0.5 2022-12-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eeb29e545ae955623506e20/1605999716061-9S7O75NX78MJGIGNI1UX/pic+of+Jerwayne+Cook.png Episodes - Former Black American CIA Operative Analyses America's Fractured Democracy - Former CIA operative Jerwayne Cook After nearly 13 years in the CIA during the height of the War on Terror, Jerwayne Cook has a remarkable resumé that is very light on detail. Since leaving the Agency in 2016 he has been in great demand as an intelligence specialist and operations consultant for clients he lists as “confidential”. Describing his time in the CIA as “a season in life”, Cook has an expansive mind and keen insight that he’s using to help demystify American foreign policy for the rest of us. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eeb29e545ae955623506e20/1605998900715-VV10B4WHNSQDEOGZA9P4/cia+logo.png Episodes - Former Black American CIA Operative Analyses America's Fractured Democracy https://www.blackdiplomats.net/episodes/what-do-democrats-owe-black-voters monthly 0.5 2022-12-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eeb29e545ae955623506e20/1605344867624-VCI5QISR0H1UJGV27GQK/stacey+abrams+team.jpeg Episodes - What do Democrats owe Black voters? Stacey Abrams and her team came through BIG for Democrats in Georgia https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eeb29e545ae955623506e20/1605345763767-LMF7HSE47903Q2KKV99D/color_0009_Anoa-Changa.png Episodes - What do Democrats owe Black voters? - Anoa Changa An organizer by nature and a lawyer by trade, Anoa has a deep history of working within the realms of advocacy and justice. Her passion lies in building collaborative political spaces that fundamentally change the way communities and grassroots organizations engage with the social and political systems around us. Expanding on her experience as an attorney, Anoa has been a grassroots digital organizer and strategic advisor to several organizations. Follow her on Twitter to keep up with her day-to-day. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eeb29e545ae955623506e20/1605345597730-PL02YA59V20ES9MSALEE/melina.png Episodes - What do Democrats owe Black voters? - Dr. Melina Abdullah Dr. Melina Abdullah is a recognized expert on race, gender, class, and social movements. She was among the original group of organizers that convened to form Black Lives Matter and continues to serve as a Los Angeles chapter leader. She is also Professor and former Chair of Pan-African Studies at California State University, Los Angeles. Dr. Abdullah earned her Ph.D. from the University of Southern California in Political Science and her B.A. from Howard University in African American Studies. Follow her on Twitter for more information. https://www.blackdiplomats.net/episodes/election-analysis-with-in-the-thick monthly 0.5 2022-12-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eeb29e545ae955623506e20/1604704864104-W07J19WTYGFV0HYXTM1I/in+the+thick+logo.png Episodes - Election Analysis with In The Thick https://www.blackdiplomats.net/episodes/the-anatomy-of-a-kleptocracy-according-to-gaslit-nation monthly 0.5 2022-12-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eeb29e545ae955623506e20/1604091507367-YH1FJL74SOUIR7XUJM2U/Screen+Shot+2020-10-30+at+1.49.05+PM.png Episodes - The Anatomy of a Kleptocracy, According to Gaslit Nation Sarah Kendzior & Andrea Chalupa are the hosts of the podcast Gaslit Nation https://www.blackdiplomats.net/episodes/the-war-for-nagorno-karabakh monthly 0.5 2022-12-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eeb29e545ae955623506e20/1603738549482-PQAF6HK4UZEZ7Y46BTD8/Lika+Zakaryan.jpeg Episodes - The War for Nagorno-Karabakh Lika Zakaryan is a journalist who grew up in Artsakh, the local name for Nagorno-Karabakh. https://www.blackdiplomats.net/episodes/trumps-foreign-policy monthly 0.5 2022-12-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eeb29e545ae955623506e20/1603569737783-4R5MGKXFVGY73C5DKYOS/Desiree+Cormier+Photo+2.jpg Episodes - Trump’s White Supremacist Foreign Policy - Desiree Cormier Smith Desiree Cormier Smith is the Senior Policy Advisor for Africa, Europe, and Eurasia for the Open Society Foundations. Previously, she was a Senior Director of the Africa practice at Albright Stonebridge Group, a strategic advisory firm. Prior to that, she was a Foreign Service Officer with assignments in Ethiopia, Mexico, South Africa, and Washington, DC. She was named a 2020 Black American National Security and Foreign Policy Next Generation Leader by New America. Ms. Cormier serves on the Advisory Council of Global Kids, a non-profit aimed to inspire underserved youth to pursue careers in policy and global affairs, and on the Advisory Board of Shea Yeleen, a social enterprise dedicated to empowering women in West Africa and the U.S. She is a Term Member of the Council on Foreign Relations. Ms. Cormier earned a B.A. from Stanford University and a M.A. in Public Policy from the Harvard Kennedy School. Follow Desiree on Twitter to keep up with her. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eeb29e545ae955623506e20/1603568981667-SLK94FPP409GWEDBQB8X/Vladimir_Putin_and_Donald_Trump_at_the_2017_G-20_Hamburg_Summit_%282%29.jpg Episodes - Trump’s White Supremacist Foreign Policy One of these men is trained in psy-ops. The other is a mark. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eeb29e545ae955623506e20/1603569892251-RYYK7DIA5QAQ1GOHLLQD/Alternate+Headshot+-+TA.png Episodes - Trump’s White Supremacist Foreign Policy - Travis L. Adkins Mr. Travis L. Adkins is a Lecturer of African and Security Studies at the Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University. As an international development leader, he has two decades of experience working in governance, civil society and refugee and migration affairs in over 50 nations throughout Africa and the Middle East. This includes serving as Staff Director of the House Subcommittee on Africa, working with leading international NGOs and think tanks, as well as within several branches of the United Nations system. Travis is an alumnus of the International Affairs Fellowship at the Council on Foreign Relations, and a recipient of academic appointments from Carnegie Mellon and New York Universities. Mr. Adkins has served in numerous international election observation missions in Africa and the Middle East with the National Democratic Institute; is a contributor to Foreign Policy, The Grio, BBC and Al Jazeera on African affairs; and is the creator and host of the “On Africa” podcast, which engages diverse thought leaders in conversation on the continent's politics, history and culture. Follow Travis on Twitter and listen to his podcast On Africa to find out more. https://www.blackdiplomats.net/episodes/no-more-nukes monthly 0.5 2022-12-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eeb29e545ae955623506e20/1602322628513-LZ523ZXKCR7IS788BYMX/no+nukes.jpg Episodes - No More Nukes! The fight against nuclear weapons has been going on for as long as they’ve been around. https://www.blackdiplomats.net/episodes/revolution-in-belarus-special-series monthly 0.5 2022-12-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eeb29e545ae955623506e20/1602096759259-K3O642BBIVM4L9DZNJE2/Katsiaryna+Shmatsina.jpeg Episodes - Revolution in Belarus - Special Series Katsiaryna Shmatsina is one of many Belarussians who’ve been forced to leave the country for their own safety https://www.blackdiplomats.net/episodes/a-look-at-america-from-ukraine monthly 0.5 2022-12-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eeb29e545ae955623506e20/1601709741435-TLLY4S51FR5RZSWOJVXL/Volodymyr+Dubovyk.jpg Episodes - A Look at America from Ukraine Volodymyr Dubovyk is the foremost Americanist in Ukraine https://www.blackdiplomats.net/episodes/mike-espy-for-us-senate monthly 0.5 2022-12-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eeb29e545ae955623506e20/1601102463080-W88ML5MA978SBXR7J11X/MikeEpsy-2020-1200x630.jpg Episodes - Mike Espy for U.S. Senate Mike Espy is running for U.S. Senate in his home state of Mississippi https://www.blackdiplomats.net/episodes/trans-black-women-talk-global-liberation monthly 0.5 2022-12-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eeb29e545ae955623506e20/1600513614219-90IL6EKN2FG9SSV912KR/Miss+Ricki.jpg Episodes - Transgender Black Women Talk Global Liberation - Ricki Kgositau I am an openly identified transwoman from Botswana (though my family is originally from the North-West province in South Africa) and I live in Cape Town - South Africa. I am an Executive Director to an International NGO known as Accountability International, which has a global team in Belgium, Kenya, Sweden (where it was founded and registered) and South Africa (where I am based in the Cape Town office). I am trans person of faith who is busy with a journey of answering to a call in ministry and denominationally identify as Methodist, where I am a part of the Presiding Bishop's LGBTIQ+ Task Team mandated to action a resolution of Conference 2019 looking at integration of LGBTI persons meaningfully into church life, settling the theological debate on the solemnisation of same sex/same gender marriages and queer clergy. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eeb29e545ae955623506e20/1600513436364-06D458Y02BJI6F8PMERM/diamond+style..jpg Episodes - Transgender Black Women Talk Global Liberation - Diamond Stylz I am the Executive Director of Black Trans Women Inc, a national non-profit that is led by Black trans women focused on social advocacy, positive visibility and building strong leadership among Black trans advocates, activists, and our allies. We host an annual empowerment conference with trans specific programming that draws from the U.S. and beyond. I am the producer and creator of Marsha’s Plate podcast. It’s a podcast that knows that everybody can’t come to the cookout. It is hosted by three trans people of color exploring pop culture current events and our problematic nemesis from a black trans feminist lens. it is the only podcast of its kind. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eeb29e545ae955623506e20/1600513296613-3T49864RZPYXDJJI3SGR/Miss+Ricki.jpg Episodes - Transgender Black Women Talk Global Liberation Miss Ricki looking fly for the afternoon https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eeb29e545ae955623506e20/1600513537579-VSXVDHNQ9L6MQ0VAUJN7/audrey+mbugua.jpg Episodes - Transgender Black Women Talk Global Liberation - Audrey Mbugua Audrey Mbugua is a Kenyan activist who heads Transgender Education and Advocacy (TEA), an organization that defends the rights of transgender individuals in Kenya. In 2014, Mbugua won a landmark case, wherein the Kenya National Examinations Council was ordered to legally change Mbugua’s name and remove the existing gender designation on her academic certificates. Mbugua has also advocated for permission of sex reassignment therapy in Kenya by challenging the 2016 Health Bill. 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