Maine Chapter Event - Will Democracies in the United States and Europe Survive? - May 12 2023
Channel: Fulbright Association
Date: 2023-06-12

Moderator:

Anna Welch, Moderator, is a Professor and Co-Director of the University of Maine School of Law’s Cumberland Legal Aid Clinic and the Founding Director of the Refugee and Human Rights Clinic. Prior to joining Maine Law’s faculty, she taught within Stanford Law School’s Immigrants’ Rights Clinic. Before joining academia, she served as the Director of Immigration at the law firm Verrill Dana and as a refugee protection attorney in Nairobi, Kenya.

Panelists:

Jason Beaubien, Panelist, is an award-winning reporter with National Public Radio. His work focuses primarily on global affairs in lower income nations. He’s filed stories from more than 60 countries. Beaubien currently is based out of NPR’s Washington D.C. headquarters. Previously he served as the network’s chief correspondent in Mexico City and before that was stationed in Johannesburg. He graduated from San Francisco State University with a bachelor’s degree in English. And he grew up in Garland, Maine.

Seth Singleton, Panelist, teaches international relations in the School of Policy and International Affairs at the University of Maine. He studied Russian history and literature at Harvard and international relations, with emphasis on Africa, at Yale. He has worked in universities in Tanzania, Canada, Russia, Ecuador, Vietnam, and Mongolia and has served as academic dean in universities in the US and overseas. He was the first Fulbright Senior Scholar at Hue University, Vietnam, in 1999-2000 and a Fulbright senior specialist in Bolivia, 2006. His research for many years was in Soviet and Russian foreign policy in Africa and Asia.

Jennifer Yoder, Panelist, is the Robert E. Diamond Professor of Government and Global Studies at Colby College. She teaches courses on European political systems, the European Union, post-communist politics and the politics of memory and identity in Europe. She is the author of three books on topics ranging from German unification, to regionalization in former communist countries, to the politicization of the past at commemorations of World War II in Europe and Russia.