Mark your calendars for a career talk with Karen Sugar, department alum and instructor for a zoom conversation on career possibilities after graduate study in political science!
“In a moment of brilliance or insanity, I founded Women's Global Empowerment Fund (WGEF), an international NGO, in a country I had never been to, recovering from a long and brutal civil insurgency. It is understanding the need for political agency, and working with poverty issues most of my life, that lead me to create Women’s Global Empowerment Fund.
I created the organization based on the belief that poverty is the result of inequality in many spheres, and meaningful interventions must include a political dimension that enables addressing systemic inequality thru participation and advocacy.
Women’s Global Credit Plus program combines microcredit services with three areas of focus: literacy, leadership development and health initiatives into a single service reaching under-resourced women. What makes the Credit Plus intervention unique is the inclusion of a political dimension. Women are natural leaders and when offered meaningful opportunities are able to rise above abject poverty with dignity, while advancing self-determination”.
Who: PSCI graduate students (undergraduates considering graduate study also welcome!)
When: April 17, 2025 at 6 pm
Where: Zoom: https://ucdenver.zoom.us/j/99677413472