In this episode, I speak with Robinson Cook. Robinson and I were classmates on the Fletcher’s School Global Master of Arts Programme in International Affairs. When we met, he was running the Bogota Employment Project that he’d launched, helping Colombian women stay in employment with wage subsidies with painstaking field world, one person at a time. In this conversation, we talk about racial justice, growing up in Minnesota and being on the receiving end of heavy-handed policing targeting African Americans. We talk about how he set up the Bogota Employment project, having to pivot as the regulation made his work more difficult, until he eventually had to close shop and decided to work for USAID.
Recorded on 14 December 2021.
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