Women in international leadership positions will discuss cross-cultural challenges during a forum Tuesday, Oct. 12, at the 海角直播.<\/p>\n
Organized by the UCF Global Perspectives Office in a partnership with Lt. Gen. (Ret.) Jay Garner, the forum will take place in the Pegasus Ballroom of the Student Union from 3 to 5 p.m. The event, which is free and open to the public, is part of the office\u2019s annual focus on \u201cWomen and Leadership: A Global Perspective.\u201d<\/p>\n
Presentations will be given by actress Sarah Culberson, the Kurdistan Regional Government\u2019s Zhala Sabir and the U.S. Institute of Peace\u2019s Jacqueline H. Wilson. The forum will be moderated by Ambassador Harriet Elam-Thomas, director of UCF\u2019s Diplomacy Program.<\/p>\n
Culberson appeared in television shows such as \u201cStrong Medicine,\u201d \u201cAll of Us,\u201d \u201cBoston Legal\u201d and \u201cThe Secret Life of the American Teenager\u201d and in the film \u201cAmerican Dreamz.\u201d She learned later in life that she was from a royal family in Sierra Leone. After learning of the difficulties a brutal 11-year civil war inflicted on Sierra Leone\u2019s people, she co-founded the Los Angeles-based Kposowa Foundation to help educate young people in Sierra Leone.<\/p>\n
Sabir serves as the director of congressional and academic affairs for the Kurdistan Regional Government\u2019s office in the United States. She oversees the office\u2019s congressional and think tank outreach, following legislation, polices and reports relevant to Iraq and the Kurdistan Region.\u00a0 She is also the office\u2019s point person on strengthening relations with U.S.-based research and academic institutions. Sabir previously worked for the Department of Foreign Relations of the Kurdistan Regional Government in its capital, Erbil. She also has served as a member of Iraq\u2019s foreign service, with assignments in Baghdad and Ottawa, Canada.<\/p>\n
Wilson is a senior program officer at the United States Institute of Peace\u2019s Education and Training Center\/International. Previously, she spent more than 20 years in the U.S. Air Force and Air Force Reserves. Her military career included assignments in analysis, training and counterterrorism. She served overseas in the Middle East and Africa, and she was a Middle East foreign area officer. After Sept. 11, 2001, she was assigned to the U.S. embassy in Nairobi, Kenya, serving in the defense attach\u00e9 and Kenya-U.S. liaison offices. She hosted Sudanese peace talks and was an international observer for Kenya\u2019s elections in 2002.<\/p>\n
In addition to the Global Perspectives Office and Gen. Garner, sponsors of this forum include Lawrence J. Chastang and the Chastang Foundation, the UCF Diplomacy Program, the Sibille H. Pritchard Global Peace Fellowship program, the UCF Global Peace and Security Studies Program, UCF LIFE, the UCF Political Science Department, the UCF Women’s Research Center, the UCF Women’s Studies Program and the Global Connections Foundation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Women in international leadership positions will discuss cross-cultural challenges during a forum Tuesday, Oct. 12, at the 海角直播. Organized by the UCF Global Perspectives Office in a partnership with Lt. Gen. (Ret.) Jay Garner, the forum will take place in the Pegasus Ballroom of the Student Union from 3 to 5 p.m. The event, which is free…","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":16702,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"template-twocol.php","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"lazy_load_responsive_images_disabled":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":"","_wp_rev_ctl_limit":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[2091,4142,4888],"tu_author":[],"class_list":["post-16700","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community","tag-harriet-elam-thomas","tag-sarah-culberson","tag-ucf-global-perspectives"],"yoast_head":"\n