Professor Naomi Roht-Arriaza is a professor at the UC Hastings School of Law and an author. Her work focuses on state and corporate accountability for human rights violations as well as criminal law and topics on global environment. Among many other works, Professor Roht-Arriaza has authored The Pinochet Effect: Transnational Justice in the Age of Human Rights and Impunity and Human Rights in International Law and Practice ..read more

Professor Andaya has maintained an esteemed academic career focusing on medical and gender anthropology, with research examining reproductive health care, gender, and health policy in the United States and Cuba. She previously served on the Research Development Committee for the American Anthropological Association and her book, “Conceiving Cuba: Reproduction, Women, and the State in the Post-Soviet Era” explores how the collapse of the Soviet Union affected families, gender, and reproduction in Cuba. Professor Andaya is currently working on a second book examining the effects of service secto ..read more

Drs. Tucker and Pop-Eleches recently co-authored a book, Communism’s Shadow: Historical Legacies and Contemporary Political Attitudes, which looks at the political, economic, and social views of post-Communist citizens. Dr. Tucker is currently a professor of politics as well as an affiliated professor of Russian and Slavic studies and data science at New York University. Most of Professor Tucker’s work and research has looked at comparative politics, with a particular emphasis on Eastern Europe and what was formerly the Soviet Union. In addition to Communism’s Shadow, he has also written the b ..read more

We welcome retired Brigadier General and Wilson Center Global Fellow, Peter Zwack, as our first guest on the Global Visions podcast. General Zwack has maintained a distinguished career of military, policy, and academic service, with a focus on Russian and Eurasian security affairs. He served as a Military Intelligence and Eurasian Foreign Area Officer for 34 years in such diverse locations as West Germany, South Korea, Kosovo, Afghanistan, and Russia. General Zwack has also served as the U.S. Senior Defense Official and Attache to the Russian Federation from 2012-2014. Most recently, he has jo ..read more

Professor Graeme Gill has maintained an acclaimed career of academic roles, focusing on political transformations and post-Soviet authoritarianism. He has been a member of the University of Sydney faculty since 1981 and also holds several visiting positions across the world. Professor Gill was also the President of the International Council for Central and East European Studies from 2010 to 2015. Over his career, Professor Gill has also published multiple books, most recently being Collective Leadership in Soviet Politics and Building on Authoritarian Polity. More recently, he has been researc ..read more

Dr. Jennifer Tsai is an emergency medicine physician resident at Yale University and is a huge advocate for health and climate equity. She has focused her work on race-based medicine and the intersectionality of race, health, and society. Lastly, Dr. Tsai encourages conversations on critical race theory and the impacts of racism on community and individual health ..read more

Vanessa Suarez is a senior policy advisor for the climate focused non-profit organization, Carbon 180. Her main focus is on federal policy on carbon removal with an emphasis on environmental justice ..read more

Dr. Jacob George is the director of the Utah NeuroRobotics lab and a professor of neuroengineering at the University of Utah, where he conducts research on bionic prosthetics. Dr. George’s lab is currently looking at expanding and commercializing prosthetics that connect the machine with the patient’s nervous system, giving them greater sensory capacities ..read more

Dr. Megan Ranney has maintained a distinguished career of academic roles, with a focus on the impacts of gun violence on health and healthcare systems in the US. In addition to serving as the Academic Dean for the School of Public Health at Brown University, she is also a practicing emergency physician and Director of the Brown-Lifespan Center for Digital Health. Dr. Ranney’s research mainly focuses on violence prevention, with a particular emphasis on firearm injury, as well as the use of technology to facilitate behavioral health ..read more

Justin Ahn is a high school sophomore at Deerfield Academy who is passionate about political science and international relations. He previously hosted Election Day, a monologue podcast discussing the 2020 election and its aftermath, and he currently hosts Between the Headlines, an interview podcast that deconstructs important dynamics in American democracy and society. His research adopts a breadth-first approach, taking theories from various disciplines and applying them to cross-national sets of empirical data ..read more