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Alongside her interdisciplinary team and students, Mandy Rispoli actively adapts interventions that facilitate a two-way exchange of knowledge and practices between the US and Kenya.

This month, more than 40 prominent democracy activists from around the world met at UVA under the banner of the “People Power Academy.”

Professor of Slavic Languages & Literatures Edith Clowes speaks about the Black Sea Symposium, her own research in the Black Sea region, and about re-envisioning its productive futures.

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Belarusian human rights activist Volya Vysotskaia, Karsh Institute Practitioner Fellow and Serbian political activist Srdja Popovic, and UVA English professor and activist Steve Parks discuss their work.

UVA PhD student Yafrainy Familia discusses her work on and with contemporary Caribbean artists.

UVA PhD student Beatriz Silva Da Costa talks about procurements and corruption in Brazil.

UVA Music PhD student Molly Joyce chats with us about her multimedia project "Left and Right: exploring myths of the left side through dance, music, and disability" and her plans for the future.

UVA Psychology Professor Hudson Golino discusses his recent collaborative project with Professor Mariana Teles "New Tools to Study and Prevent Online Mass Manipulation."

Phoebe Crisman, Professor in the School of Architecture and Director of the Global Studies program, speaks about a longstanding collaboration between UVA and the Lake Traverse Reservation in South Dakota.