I arrived in India on February 1, 2020 to begin the final steps of my daughter’s adoption proceedings. While COVID was not yet making front page headlines anywhere in the world, I was already seeing Hindi-language public health posters when I landed in Patna airport, the capital of Bihar. By early March, the country had…
Authors: Veronica Dickson La Rotta & Izabela Chmielewska Never waste a good crisis: a maxim bolstered by a year of a global pandemic and advocacy for racial equity. Moments of political upheaval and societal distress, destabilizing though they may be, have historically been the key to opening windows of opportunity for civil society reformers to…
It would be wrong to say I was pleased when I first came across Isabel Wilkerson’s book Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents. In the bestseller published late last year, Wilkerson uses, quite radically, caste as a framework to analyse the reality of racial discrimination in the US. There cannot be anything pleasing about something…
Click here to listen to the interview Transcript Ambika: Welcome to the third edition of our podcast series for Outside/In: international perspectives on governance challenges in the United States. Today, I’ll be speaking to Marc-André Boisvert, research manager at Global Integrity and my co-French wine drinker. He was a correspondent for AP for two…
Political identity is a divisive topic, even when it’s not election season. Today, the word “polarization” is nearly synonymous with politics in the United States, with a recessive trend of closing civic spaces and restrictive conservatism growing globally. A few relevant questions from our Open Gov Hub community came up during our live discussion…
Click here to listen to the interview Transcript Ambika: Welcome to our second podcast for the Global Integrity series, Outside/In. Today I’ll be speaking to Smriti Lakhey, the Director of Operations and Programs at Global Integrity, and also my fellow mom of two at work. She was born and raised in Nepal before making…