Person Type: World Fellow
Roz Savage encourages Yale students to be courageous
Yale News published a profile on World Fellow Roz Savage (Class of 2012), who is back at Yale this semester as a Senior Fellow at the Jackson Institute for Global Affairs. The March 1 story, “Noted sea adventurer hopes to inspire courageous students,” was part of the Yale People series. The profile offers a glimpse into Savage’s seminar course on courage. An excerpt appears below. Read the full version on Yale News In a recent seminar in Luce Hall, a group of Yale undergraduates described how they had stepped out of their comfort zones since they last met together in the classroom. One said she had composed an apologetic email to a…
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Yale co-hosts Conversations Without Borders event in Madrid
We have to be more courageous. That was one of the challenges issued by a panelist during the March 3 “Conversations Without Borders” on Europe’s migrant crisis. Four Yale World Fellows gathered at the headquarters of Banco Santander in Madrid, Spain, to lead a discussion on the challenges and impact of the massive wave of migrants pouring into Europe from the Middle East each day. Panelists included Mina Al-Oraibi YWF ’15, an Iraqi-British journalist who has covered the conflict for many years, Mohamed Baba YWF ’06, political secretary for the ruling part in Amsterdam, Mohamed Elfayoumy YWF ’13, an Egyptian diplomat and political advisor to the UN Special Envoy to Syria, and Martina Larkin YWF ’11 of the…
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