Events

On April 12, the Young Initiative hosted Professor Lindsay Dolan and Professor Matthew Winters for a timely lecture and discussion on foreign aid and U.S. national interest. The discussion highlighted studies on public opinion in donor and recipient countries. 

On March 6, 2025, the Young Initiative co-sponsored, Dr. Michael Méndez's lecture about Sonoma County wildfires and the effect on migrant workers.

On January 29th, 2025 the Young Initiative at Occidental College hosted a panel webinar titled, “How Cities Can Defend Human Rights in the Face of Mass Deportations.”

On February 4th, 2025, the Young Initiative hosted a talk by Dr. Camilo Umaña Hernández, Colombia's Former Deputy Minister of Justice.

On Thursday, November 21st, 2024, the Young Initiative proudly hosted the director of the documentary Powerlands, Ivey Camille Manybeads Tso, and the producer, Jordan Flaherty, to discuss the filmmaking process and then screen the film itself.

On November 11th, the Young Initiative at Occidental College hosted a talk by Dr. Huss Banai, the Zahedi Fellow at Stanford University and Associate Professor at Indiana University. 

On October 24, Professor Igor Logvinenko moderated a panel about the 2024 United States election that featured Oxy faculty and former California State Assemblymember Mary Chung Hayashi.

On Thursday October 17th, the Young Initiative at Occidental College hosted a talk by Dr. Jenny Guardado, an assistant professor at the Center for Latin American Studies / Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University. 

Professor Igor Logvinenko visited New York City on Friday, September 13, 2024, to meet with some in this year’s cohort of the esteemed Kahane Oxy-at-the-U.N. Program. 

Photo from left to right: Peter Vartanian (DWA’25, Costa Rican Mission), Nathaniel Lundstrom (DWA’25, Costa Rican Mission), Professor Igor Logvinenko (DWA), Matthew Vickers (DWA’25, UN Secretariat Anti-Racism Office), Jacob Whitney...

“Incredible suffering has been enabled by our money. At the end of the day there are human beings who are suffering, and that is where our focus should be.”