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Today's Newsletter
- Early Webinars: Young Leaders Perspectives
- Interview With Cindy Carcamo, Young Leader '13
- Headlines
- VP Nominee: Kamala Harris
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Early Webinars: Young Leaders Perspectives |
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We created the French-American Foundation webinar series to engage our wider community in consistent transatlantic dialogue during the COVID-19 crisis. Beginning in March, the initiative has since grown to over 20 webinars with 40 different speakers on topics from public policy and leadership to literature and the arts.
This week, we’re highlighting our Young Leaders Perspectives webinars - a joint effort between the French-American Foundations in the US and France that draws from the expertise of our global community to offer Young Leader-led discussions on topics of mutual interest for both countries. Below, you'll find a selection of these virtual events, spanning late April through early July.
- Chloe Demrovsky (President & CEO of Disaster Recovery Institute International ) and Renaud Guidée (Chief Risk Officer at AXA) discussed the impact of the pandemic thus far, with a focus on government and industry. Watch the webinar.
- Bhama Ramkhelawon (Assistant Professor & Director of the Vascular Research Program at NYU Langone Medical Center) and Adrien de Chaisemartin (Director of Strategy & Performance at Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance) examined vaccine development from a scientific and political perspective. Watch the webinar.
- Siddhartha Shukla (Chief Brand Officer at Theory) and Leslie Serrero (General Manager at Fendi - France & Monaco) explained the effects of COVID-19 on the fashion industry and their respective companies. Watch the webinar.
- Jason El Koubi (Executive VP of the Virginia Economic Development Partnership) and David Vaillant (Global Head of Finance, Strategy, and Participations at BNP Paribas Asset Management) addressed the economic fallout from the pandemic and potential solutions moving forward. Watch the webinar.
As we take a momentary pause on digital events to revamp our online programming for the fall, we’re delighted to share these discussions from the last five months. Click HERE to see the full list of available webinars. |
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Interview With Cindy Carcamo, Young Leader '13 |
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Cindy Carcamo covers immigration issues for the Los Angeles Times. Previously, she was Arizona bureau chief and a national correspondent for The Times, focusing on border and immigration issues in the Southwest.
Q. You’re an award-winning journalist reporting on immigration issues for the Los Angeles Times. From what you’ve seen so far, what have been the largest impacts of COVID-19 on US immigration policy?
- "The Trump administration has used the COVID-19 pandemic to advance a host of stringent immigration policies, particularly with asylum. Using the cover of the coronavirus, Trump has sealed the border to an unprecedented extent and turned away thousands of people seeking asylum, including hundreds of children traveling by themselves to the US southern border. Two years after taking migrant children from their parents blew up into a humanitarian crisis, the Trump administration is still engaging in family separation but under the guise of the coronavirus... At the same time, this administration is rushing the deportation of migrant children and has contributed to the worldwide spread of COVID-19 by deporting immigrants with coronavirus to their home countries, despite pleas from experts and government officials to halt deportations."
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"As decision-makers weigh whether to reopen U.S. schools this fall, they face a daunting reality: COVID-19 appears to have surged among American kids this summer. (...)"
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"Hopes that talks on a huge COVID-19 relief deal would generate an agreement soon are fizzling, with both the Trump administration negotiating team and top congressional Democrats adopting hard lines and testy attitudes. (...)"
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"Postmaster General Louis DeJoy's plans to shake up the agency are gathering opposition from some of its workers. The U.S. Postal Service has had financial problems for years. It lost $9 billion last year. It's not supported by tax dollars; it's funded by postage and services. (...)"
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"Depuis la fin du mois de juillet, des arrêtés municipaux ou préfectoraux ont été pris dans des centaines de villes, petites ou grandes, pour imposer le port du masque à l’extérieur. (...)"
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Follow Updates
- "As the search for survivors continues, aid groups have mobilized to help the thousands of people wounded by the blast, and the hundreds of thousands of others who have been made homeless. (...)"
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- "A former rival for the Democratic presidential nomination, she will be the first woman of color to be nominated for national office by a major political party. (...)"
- "Kamala Harris has spent the better part of two decades in public life notching up a long list of things she was the first to achieve: the first Black woman to be elected district attorney in California history, first woman to be California's attorney general, first Indian American senator, and now, the first Black woman and first Asian American to be picked as a vice presidential running mate on a major-party ticket. (...)"
- "But it is possible for the progress and the backlash to arrive at the same time. Harris, as she campaigns, will be supporting a straight, white, septuagenarian man as he campaigns against another straight, white, septuagenarian man. She will be discussed, in the media, in terms of the American public’s ability to 'tolerate' her, to 'be comfortable' with her... She will navigate a culture that even in its moments of wildest creativity—even when it uses the freedoms of fiction to imagine new and different worlds—too often fails to see beyond the world that has already been. (...)"
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