Lets talk about privilege. How do you succeed in life when you are born female, black and belong to one of the poorest most acutely affected areas by the armed conflict in Colombia?

Yineth Rentería´s life and career will tell you how.  She is no ordinary changemaker.  With only 22 years old, she is a professional accountant and recepient of many national and international awards, like a full scholarship to complete her undergrad and a Martin Luther King Jr. Fellowship.

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In Episode 2 you will listen Yineth’s humble beginnings and hear about the unwavering support of her family to pursue an education.   She surpassed many obstacles and knocked many doors, and failed many times but never stopped pursuing and achieving her dreams. At the time of the recording she was the director of operations of Mentor4U a startup where education, social innovation, entrepreneurship and youth leadership intersects. She is currently the National Leader for Mentoring at ICETEX (The Government of Colombia’s educational credit organization). Her goal is to become Minister of Education. Try stopping her.

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Mentor4U

Icetex

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We open Season 5 with an amazing stubborn optimist. Marcela Fernández and Fito (her companion dog who also joined in) not only dropped out of college and fought family and societal pressures to find what made sense to her. And what worked for her may not work for you but still, its worth a listen how she has so far founded 5 companies, speaks several languages, has travelled to 67 countries (with Fito).

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In Episode 1 you will listen how Marcela became a digital nomad, a Tedex speaker and Flow Consultant- and how she saves glaciers in her downtime.  Learn about her transition from entrepreneur to employer brand Ambassador of Selina- – one of the world’s top startups serving the rapidly growing Digital Nomad Community 

Key links:

Selina

Tedx Marcela Fernandez (en español)

Pazabordo Chiva por la paz

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This week’s guest is Juliana Gutierrez. She has focused her career in international cooperation for the development and sustainability, working, volunteering and leading different social and environmental causes in public, private and academic sector in organizations like UN-Habitat, UNDP, Amnesty International, AIESEC, La Ciudad Verde, among others. In Episode 9 of Season 4 hear about Juliana’s earlier years playing with rural kids while her parents worked in remote areas; being totally lost after high school and applying for everything under the sun.  Learn the fascinating journey of how Juliana has become a nationally and internationally recognized climate change professional and entrepreneur.      

Episode 9 of Season 4 is brought to you by The Rotary Peace Fellowship and the Graduate Program in Conflict Resolution and Coexistence at the Heller School for Social Policy at Brandeis University.

 In this episode we discuss:

• Juliana’s story from when she was 5 year old and how she developed her social awareness
• Juliana reflects on her education (finance and IR background and grad school)
• How working for the city of Medellin alerted her of the environmental gap in the city’s development agenda
• Why this led her to work and go to grad school to gain environmental skills
• For her second masters, she got a scholarship and focused her research on climate change in global southern cities
• How she met a think-do tank La Ciudad Verde (Green city)
• Juliana’s tactical urbanism by painting illegal bike lanes who later became Medellin’s official bike lines we enjoy today
• How she quit her stable job and transition from working on creating awareness to becoming an entrepreneur
• How Low-Carbon City was born in late 2015 and why it focuses on citizen engagement
• The process of applying for the Echoingreen fellowship
• How to get into the environmental scene according to Juliana
• How to connect your skill/professional to an environmental mission
• Key skills for a green career
• Catalina’s (not so good idea) for a campaign to reduce car ridership in Medellin
• Juliana’s real examples of climate change activism campaigns
• Career advice for women in social change from Juliana

Links: 

AISEC 

Graduate School of International Studies, Korea University 

Echoingreen

Join Low Carbon City

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Growing up in a civil war is –unfortunately- no that uncommon for many of us.  But raising someone to break the cycle of vengeance and hate in the midst of war is remarkable.  This was the childhood of today’s guest. Born and raised in the midst of Beirut’s 15-year cruel civil war, Hanadi Mehdi, learned from her parents the value of education and on-the-ground peace and reconciliation.  In Episode 8 of Season 4 hear about her experience in the Graduate Program at the Heller School for Social Policy & Management and what she is doing now to bring about positive social change through her work at the International Committee of the Red Cross.

Episode 8 of Season 4 is brought to you by The Rotary Peace Fellowship and the Graduate Program in Conflict Resolution and Coexistence at the Heller School for Social Policy at Brandeis University.

 In this episode we discuss:

• War as “normalized” day-to-day practices for Hamadi as she grew up 
• Hamadi becomes a teacher and how she dealt with the problems of how to tell “the history of the war”
• While Hamadi’s always wanted to be a humanitarian worker, she studied to have a degree in English Literature and became a teacher.
• How volunteering became her entry point to doing humanitarian work
• How a good mentor was the key for Hamadi’s finding her graduate program (Heller School for Social Policy)
• Hamadi’s take on why to do a graduate degree
• Hamadi’s first job after graduation in South Sudan with ICRC
• Reasons why ICRC didn’t hire Hamadi when she first applied
• From South Sudan, to Iran and back to Beirut with the ICRC
• A day in the work of Hamadi (in Irak and Beirut)
• Growing her family and returning to Beirut
•  Top three things to pursue a career in the humanitarian/social good space
• How Hamadi copes with the stressful nature of her job

Links:  

Heller School for Social Policy

International Committee for the Red Cross

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A kid from the 1980’s who rode his bicycle without a helmet and benefited from an outdoor childhood grew up to develop a very successful career on sustainability as it intersects with business. 

In Episode 7 of Season 4 you will learn how Kevin grew to become one of the world’s pre-eminent business consultants and teachers in the field of sustainability. He is the CEO of Sustainable Business Consulting, a consulting firm focused on demonstrating the bottom-line business benefits of sustainability and then leading companies through successful implementation.

Episode 7 of Season 4 is brought to you by The Rotary Peace Fellowship and the Graduate Program in Conflict Resolution and Coexistence at the Heller School for Social Policy at Brandeis University.

 In this episode we discuss:

• Growing up outdoorsin the 1970s with no helmets (or seatbelts)
• The college backpack trip that started Kevin’s passion for the environment and all things green
• How a kayaking trip prompted Kevin to develop a sense for business as it intersects with green environmental practices
• Academic credentials versus on-the-job skills
• Key skills for a career in sustainability
• As a sustainability consultant how does Kevin’s day look like?
• Kevin’s strategy to narrow your job searchfor a sustainability job
• On dealing with rejection and moving forward
• Who gets jobs, according to Kevin
• Understanding Corporate Sustainabilitythrough the story of Seattle’s professional soccer team becoming carbon neutral
• Corporate Sustainability or Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR)
• If you are NOT making money on your sustainability efforts you are doing it wrong
• 6 steps for a company to start its path on sustainability
• Top 3 things to develop a career of impact and sustainability

Links: 

Books by Kevin:

Kevin’s sustainability consulting firm

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While originally from Medellin, Colombia, Federico has worked all over the world developing partnerships and is an organizational management expert focused on youth and leadership development.  As a child, de wasn’t learning Chinese and practicing for standardized tests, in fact he played a LOT of video games growing up, traded college for adventures with pink dolphins and now co-directs the newly Impact Hubin Medellin.  In Episode 6 of Season 4, he talks about his passion for global youth engagement at the largest scale, the Sustainable Development Goals and how he one of the key figures behind the biggest most interesting social innovation labs in South America.

Episode 6 of Season 4 is brought to you by The Rotary Peace Fellowship and the Graduate Program in Conflict Resolution and Coexistence at the Heller School for Social Policy at Brandeis University.

 In this episode we discuss:

• Born in 1989 in Envigado, Colombia. Learned English, geography and history while watching video games
• Webinar in the AM and swimming with pink dolphins in the afternoon: Federico’s college experience
• How he started travelling with the organization AIESECand connecting the dots for his passion on engaging youth and the SDGs
• Up until 2015 Federico was focus on a career in corporate and even applied for a job in Nintendo… but then the SDGs happened and also the birth of his niece
• Federico’s aha! moment in the airplane: Youth 4 Global Goals(YFGG) was created
• 600 million people reached with YFGG, UN, ADB and more than 5,000 projects and 200,000 youth engaged in those projects
• The Young Persons Guideline to Changing the World
• Why Federico returned to Colombia after a successful career abroad
• Impact Hub and the creation of an global impact community in Medellin
• Diversity as a MUST in the ecosystem of impact entrepreneurs
• Key skills for the future of impact work
• Life wisdom and avocado truth from Federico

Links: 

AISEC

Youth 4 Global Goals

Asian Development Bank

The Young Persons Guideline to Changing the World

Impact Hub Medellin

Bandeja Paisa (photo)

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You made it in life when it is impossible to fit your accomplishments in one go.  But when you remain a good human, it's even better.  It is a tremendous honor to have as a guest Dr. Mary Fitzduff who is one of the leading academics of contemporary conflict resolution and coexistence policy. Irish-born activist, educator, writer and academic, and more importantly, a very good human being.  In Episode 5 of Season 4 you will hear from D. Fitzduff earlier years, her involvement in conflict and post-conflict Northern Irish policy development; her tenure at the Heller School for Social Policy and interests in Neuroscience; Followership and her most recent book on Donald Trump.

Episode 5 of Season 4 is brought to you by The Rotary Peace Fellowship and the

Graduate Program in Conflict Resolution and Coexistence at the Heller School for Social Policy at Brandeis University. 

In this episode we discuss:

• Fitzduff most formative years in the University and how she met her husband in 1969
• Fitzduff and her husband two-year honeymoon travelling throughout South America, Africa and Asia
• Fitzduff settled with her family in Northern Ireland in area known as the “killing fields”
• The morning she found her vocation
• How Dr. Fitzduff founded “Mediation Northern Ireland” while she was doing her Ph.D
• When the government asked her to write a paper on how what they could do in Northern Ireland after the military and economic approach failed
• The government offered to set up an organization to facilitate Conflict Resolution at every level in Northern Ireland in the 1990s “Community Relations Council”
• In the 1970s she Dr. Fitzduff never heard of Conflict Resolution
• How Dr. Christopher Mitchell helped Mary at the beginning of the field as she was developing her organization
• How Dr. Fitz developed a training Manual “Community Conflict Skills” on group dialogue on difficult issues translated on 6 different languages
• How her career blended her academic interests (behavioral change); her managerial skills (organizational psychology) and her systemic mediation work
• It was only when Dr. Fitzduff was 40 that she started the Community Relations Council
• How Conflict Resolution is about combining different degrees into one
• How the Brandeis program got set up
• A bit about the origins of the conflict terminology
• The evolution of Conflict Resolution
• Fitzduff key and essential skills
• What employers look for when hiring
• Why a Ph.D is NOT for everyone
• What to do if you want to get into the Conflict Resolution
• Why global southern students get jobs faster than the students from the Global North
• On working domestically in Conflict Resolution
• Why undergraduate degrees in Conflict Resolution are NOT very useful
• On being humble about working in the field and not feeling “morally superior”
• How evaluation has developed in the CR field
• Is this about been a goody-goody or about a profession?
• Fitzbuff next book is a text book on neuro-psychology
• On the topic of Followership and entrepreneurship
• Fitzduff reflection on acceptance (or not) of peace processes and stories of reconciliation and change
• Fitzduff reflections on what she does to decompress and how does she prevents burn-out

Links: 

Community Relations Council

Brandeis University Heller School for Social Policy and Management

Uppsala University

Mari’s latest book

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Like the series Friends, the days of having “Northern Experts” working in the Global South are so 1990s.  Now, not only do we have Netflix but also it is possible to find a Congolese peace activist and researcher that live and work in Bogotá, Colombia.  Yes. This episode is dedicated to exploring the life and career of Christian Cito Cirhigiri. With eight years experience supporting youth participation in peace building processes in Eastern Congo, Rwanda, Burundi and Colombia.  Christian is the founder of Peacemaker 360, a global campaign that connects young peace building professionals through storytelling.  He currently is leading a countrywide study funded by the Dag Hammarskjöld Foundation.  In Episode 4 of Season 4 you will hear how Christian Cito is NOT afraid of using his passport and changing the world.  Today in Bogotá…. And next? Stay tuned.

Episode 4 of Season 4 is brought to you by The Rotary Peace Fellowship and the Graduate Program in Conflict Resolution and Coexistence at the Heller School for Social Policy at Brandeis University.

 In this episode we discuss:

• Christian Cito earlier years from Eastern Congo. He is a twin.  Cito means: “second born”. He comes from a family of 11.  Growing up, born in 1987 he enjoyed his childhood.
• His experience with peace-related topics began in 1994 with the Rwanda genocide as refugees arrived. Christian was shocked to see the refugees speaking a foreign language.
• How young Christian made friends with Remi, a Rwandan refugee taught him how to ride a bike.
• A rebellion in DRC to overthrown Mobutu’s dictatorship prompted Christian to become a refugee himself.
• At a very early age, it was clear that Christian was curious and eager to learn more about his surroundings (the conflict, the refugees)
• How Christian got his scholarship to study in Kenya his undergraduate in Community Development
• Christian returns in 2010 to DRC to work for a Dutch-based organization for 2 years where he started focusing on his work on youth and peacebuilding
• In 2012 he started his own non –profit that engages young people in arts and communication
• He was then selected to be a part of this Obama’s Initiative Young African Leadership Initiative.
• How he met President Obama in 2014 with other 500 African leaders
• At the same time, he was preparing his application to Notre Dame for the MA in International Peace from 2014-2016
• Founded two non–profits already: Bukabu Youth Action Center and Peace360
• Christian reflects on his trajectory: on mentors and compassion
• How did Christian landed his first job with the Dutch-based organization
• Christian’s volunteering experience as a way to deal with un-employment
• Christian reflects on his Masters experience at the Kroc Institute
• Why did Christian developed his interest in communication and peacebuilding and how he developed Peace360 in 2016 covering 4000 activists stories in 45 countries and working on a group that will be launched at the end of June 2019
• Christian’s work in Colombia
• Similarities and differences between Colombia and Congo according to Christian
• What Christian likes and what drives him crazy in Colombia
• Why Christian’s field experience and knowledge gave him an edge and got his Colombian jobs
• How south-to-south relations as a way to enter into the peacebuilding field
• Christian’s take on going to grad school
• Grad school as a way to prevent burn-out from really protracted and stressful environments
• What does it mean to travel with a DRC passport? The realities of south-to-south travelling with certain passports
• Key skills for the future of Peacebuilding and Development
• On the importance of developing original thinking
• Top three things that folks should do to develop a career of impact

Links:

• Young African Leadership Initiative
• Bukabu Youth Action Center
• Peace360
• Notre Dame Kroc Institute
• ACDI-Voca
• Dak Hammarskjöld Foundation
• Christian’s Cito Linkedin

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PCDN contributor and career advisory council member as well as PCDN friend, Bri Reggio, is an NCDA certified Career Advisor with years of experience advising hundreds of students from top universities in social change careers.  In Episode 3 of Season 4 you will learn why certifications work great; the in and out of Fellowships and tips for winning resumes.  No social change professional can’t miss this episode.

Episode 3 of Season 4 is brought to you by The Rotary Peace Fellowship and the Graduate Program in Conflict Resolution and Coexistence at the Heller School for Social Policy at Brandeis University.

In this episode we discuss: 

• Parents divorced when Bri was 6 learned to be very sensitive and empathetic at a very early age.
• During her high school years, age 15, she developed an eating disorder that took her to the edge.  
• Her parents are both highly educated psychologists which both allowed her to read people very well and also to value education which both shaped her vocation as a career counselor.
• Bri’s reflection on Grad School- what she knows now and why it’s healthy to be skeptical about it.
• Why she went to Grad School to work on International Relations and why she pivoted to succeeded in career advising
• How the absence of a career center sparked her passion for advising others in career advising
• Upon graduation she landed her first job in the newly created career center at American University
• How, instead of furthering her formal education she nailed it with a number of key certifications
• Why she chose NCDA certification,
  • global career development certification- international recognized
  • CCSP – career services provide NCDA’s specific certification
• Bri’s recommendation: do you need to invest 2-3 years and all that money or are there skilled-based certifications to be successful and employable?
• Key skills for the future of the work according to Bri. Of all the “soft” skills, Bri delves of the topic of flexibility.
• Why being humble is key to your success in your career
• Bri answers how can a Fellowship advance your career
  • What is a Fellowship and what is NOT
  • Different types of fellowships
  • Fellowships for mid-career professionals
  • Fellowship and Scholarships, are they the same?
• Best Fellowship Resources for Bri
• Opportunities for international students and professionals
• A winner resume according to Bri
• The idea of a master resume by Bri
• Statement of Qualification, yey or hey
• More resume advice from Bri

Links:

National Career Development Association

 AU Fellowships Website

Columbia University Fellowships

UC Berkeley Fellowships

UCLA Fellowships

Institute for International Education

IREX

World Learning

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After spending 10 years in refugee camps in Central Africa, Christopher Zambakari and his family arrived to the U.S. No war or any other obstacle -like not getting a job immediately after graduation- stopped him to becoming a successful academic, practitioner and business owner with degrees in Law, MBA and a PhD. Learn about “The Lit Review Method” for changing the world and becoming a successful social change professional in Episode 2 of Season 4.

Episode 2 of Season 4 is brought to you by The Rotary Peace Fellowship and the Graduate Program in Conflict Resolution and Coexistence at the Heller School for Social Policy at Brandeis University.

 In this episode we discuss:

• On how the Sudanese civil war, influenced Dr. Zambakari
• Born in South Sudan (before partition) first he was IDP (internally displaced) to Central Africa Republic spent over a decade in refugee camps
• Most of what he does professionally is informed by his experience as a refugee and address the issues and causes of conflict.
• On how Dr. Zambakari’s support system (two sisters and a mum) was key to propel his career forward
• On how mum made sure they had a good support system, she arranged teachers and bartered mid-wife services in exchange for education
• By the time they arrived to Phoenix, the children spoke Arabic, French and English, all thanks to mum
• Mum worked 16 hours a day and two jobs and strongly pushed the kids to get an education
• How the outside (was chaos, wars) but the household was stable and produced an environment that encouraged education
• On how he funded his education and college and attended Grand Canyon University and how he transferred to ASU and he graduated with a BS in Psychology
• Zambakari’s grad school experience
• On being multi-lingual and his passion for Spanish and Spanish Literature
• How has he integrated his career while making a living
• Zambakari’s “why” and how we transformed his upbringing (in a conflict zone) and propelled him to a successful career
• On why he took student loans
• What happened to him after two years of trying and NOT finding a job
• Zambakari’s Darfur advocacy work
• The many organizations that Dr. Zambakari helped initiated and what lessons he got from there and how he propelled his career from here on now
• Zambakari’s experience advising students on their careers and his personal career tips
• Differentiate between your talent and your calling
• How he started a business in assisting living that allowed him to fund his non-profit ventures
• Zambakari’s Rotary Peace Fellowship and how he started his own global consulting firm afterwards
• How he build Zambakari’s Advisory (ZA) and how his research got ranked one of the most influential in the world.
• How he plans on training the next generation of researchers FROM Africa
• How to get in touch with the ZACF (as an intern, fellow)
• How to publish your research at ZACF
• Zambakari’s top skill for a social change professional to succeed
• Journals or Blogs? What is best for a social change career?
• Zambakari’s lesson’s for those that have to start their own business
• Final words for life and career from Dr. Zambakari

Links:

Arizona State University

University Community Partnership for Action Research

The Nile Institute for Peace and Development

Zambakari’s Advisory

Social Science Research Network

Dr. Zambakari’s email

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