Ages 18

PRFDHR Seminar: Promoting maternal mental health and early childhood development in communities exposed to violence and forced displacement in Colombia, Professor Andrés Moya

By the end of 2020, 1 out of every 6 children was living in a region affected by violence and armed conflict. Repeated and traumatic exposure violence at an early age can severely affect children’s mental health and can therefore hinder healthy development and derail their life trajectories. In this paper Professor Moya and his co-authors report the results from a cluster-based randomized trial of Semillas de Apego, a community-based psychosocial model for mothers of young children affected by violence and forced displacement.

PRFDHR Seminar: Market Structure and Extortion: Evidence from 50,000 Extortion Payments in El Salvador, Professor María Micaela Sviatschi

How do gangs compete for extortion? Using detailed data on individual extortion payments to gangs and sales from a leading wholesale distributor of consumer goods and pharmaceuticals in El Salvador, Professor Sviatschi and her co-authors document evidence on the determinants of extortion payments and the effects of extortion on firms and consumers. They exploit a 2016 non-aggression pact between gangs to examine how collusion affects extortion in areas where gangs previously competed.

Leaders Forum: "Making Mistakes, and What I Learned From Them:" Lessons in Leadership through Adversity- A Conversation with Jorge Lemann

Save the Date for our first Leaders Forum this semester on November 9 with Jorge Lemann who will talk about leadership through adversity and the mistakes he made, and learned from as he built his enterprise.
Jorge Paulo Lemann is a Swiss-Brazilian entrepreneur and the founder and chairman of the board of the Lemann Foundation. He believes that people are the most important asset for either a company or a society and has brought this philosophy to life in all his business and philanthropic endeavors.

Debates históricos en torno al aborto legal: Chile, Argentina y Mexico / Historical Debates on Legal Abortion: Chile, Argentina, and Mexico

Please join us for the last event in our special webinar series held on the last Friday of every month. Led by Professor Moira Fradinger, this series is a part of a collaborative effort with CLAIS, Latin American Interdisciplinary Gender Network, and The National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) to highlight gender studies and gender issues in Latin America.

VIRTUAL: Resistance & Resilience: Responses to the Climate Crisis from Cuba & Puerto Rico

Join us for the fourth session of this virtual conference series, Resistance & Resilience: Responses to the Climate Crisis from Cuba & Puerto Rico.
In this session, we will hear from civil society voices about how communities are innovating decentralized, clean energy systems and the role of local and national governments:
Ruth Santiago, Lawyer for community & environmental groups, Puerto Rico
Arturo A. Massol-Deyá, Casa Pueblo, Puerto Rico
Madelaine Vazquez, Cubasolar, Cuba
Alois Arencibia, Cubasolar
Moderated by Agustín F. Carbó,

Las luchas por el aborto legal en América Latina / The Struggle for Legal Abortion in Latin America

Join us for a special webinar series slated to be held on the last Friday of every month as part of a collaborative effort with CLAIS, Latin American Interdisciplinary Gender Network, and The National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) to highlight gender studies and gender issues in Latin America.

The event on February 26 will feature scholars and practitioners discussing the struggles related to legalizing abortion in Latin America.
This event will be in Spanish with simultaneous English translation.

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