Deep Dive into Africa, Trans, and USAID with Chloe Schwenke

Chloe Schwenke

Chloe Schwenke is a teaching professor at the McCourt School of Public Policy of Georgetown University, and has keen observations about the incredible damage, destruction, and death being visited upon Africa and many other areas by the Trump administration's reckless attack on US Agency for International Development, USAID. And the reason Chloe knows so intimately about their work is due to the 15 or so years she spent working in various countries in Africa, first as an architect, and then transitioning to work in international affairs, focusing along the way on gender equality, social inclusion, governance, peace-building and human rights. In 2012 she was appointed by the Obama administration as Senior Advisor on Human Rights at the Africa Bureau of the USAID. Mix in her transition to female in 2006, and you'll find a vibrant and compelling journey informing Chloe's very passionate reaction to the current assault on USAID. Find more about Chloe on her LinkedIn page, by reading her books, Self-ish: A Transgender Journey toward Wholeness, and Reclaiming Value in International Development, or by listening to her Thee Quaker Podcast interview.

Past/present religious/spiritual influences: Episcopal, Quaker

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SIA-000795

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Deep Dive into Africa, Trans, and USAID with Chloe Schwenke

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Chloe Schwenke

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Thank you for your brilliant work, Chloe! I am sharing it with other international human rights activists. May truth and justice prevail!

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