In this interview, associate director Carrie Preston, research associate Rana Hussein and student research fellow Janki Bhatt are joined by Naween Mangi, founder of the Ali Hasan Memorial Trust, to discuss the impacts of the 2022 Pakistan floods on communities in rural Sindh.

For more information on Naween Mangi's work, check out her website here.

In this episode we sit down with Selma Hedlund, a CFD postdoc, to discuss her journey into the field of forced displacement, both as a researcher and community organizer, and what it means to have an impact in the field.

For more information on research and CFD events, check out our website: ⁠https://www.bu.edu/cfd/ 

In this episode CFD Events and Communications Specialist Baiden Wright sits down with students from the Interdisciplinary Summer School on Forced Displacement held in Belgrade, Serbia to reflect on the experience.

To learn about the upcoming 2024 program click here.

For more information on research and CFD events, check out our website: ⁠https://www.bu.edu/cfd/

Today Shandra is joined with Rachel Nolan, an assistant professor of international relations at Boston University, to discuss her experience working with language barriers while doing research in Guatemala.

In this episode, Shandra is joined with fellow participants of the Border Studies Program. The BSP is a collaboration with the CFD, the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley and many local non-profit organizations. The students reflect on the preparation course, the spring break trip to the Rio Grande Valley of Texas and projects/opportunities that were born from the experience.

Click here for more information on the Border Studies Program.

For more information on research and CFD events, check out our website: https://www.bu.edu/cfd/

In this episode, Shandra is joined with Kaitlin Roberson, CEO of Cacti Therapeutics. Together they sit down to discuss secondary trauma as well as how to recognize and approach it.

Check out Kaitlins talk from our March Sawyer Seminar hosted with The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley here: https://open.spotify.com/episode/1x1Ml7aG96Tchs6XK2dRBJ

In the first episode of the CFD Conversations podcast, director of the Boston University Center on Forced Displacement, Professor Muhammed Zaman and assistant director Professor Carrie Preston sit down with host Shandra Back to chat about the CFD's creation and why bringing together brains from a variety of disciplinary and sectoral perspectives is essential to tackling the rising global crisis of forced displacement.

For more information on research and CFD events, check out our website: https://www.bu.edu/cfd/