Students enrolled in Professor Jeff Colgan’s course “Geopolitics of Oil and Energy” debated and wrestled with ideas to tackle climate change’s myriad challenges. Richard Holbrooke Associate Professor of Political Science and International and Public Affairs Jeff Colgan, who is director of the Climate Solutions Lab and director of Security Studies, introduced the seminar during the 2019-2020 academic year.

Liz Garbus, a 1992 graduate of Brown University, initially saw herself pursuing a career in law. But as a semiotics and history student at Brown, she had long studied the ability of images to impart social, political, and emotional messages. So, inspired by the scenes she encountered working on a voter registration drive soon after graduation, she began pursuing filmmaking.

Toran Labhaya Seth is a Singapore Economic Development Board (EDB) Scholar. The EDB Scholarship program sponsors undergraduate and graduate education to prepare Scholars to be leading thinkers to advance Singapore’s economy.

Catherine Tonsberg ’19 MPA discusses her experience in the Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs MPA program and how it prepared her for her position as a Policy Analyst in Regional and Community Outreach at the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston.