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CNS launches Machiavelli in the Ivory Tower, a videocast that aims to bring arms control, nonproliferation, and international security issues to a broader audience.
Marianna Guedez Forgiarini TLM ’22 has published Desde el Exilio, a collection of poems in Spanish and English about her experiences as a Venezuelan who fled her country in 2014 in the face of political and economic turmoil.
| by Jessie Raymond
Inspired by a 2021 J-term class, two Institute students have established a nonprofit that connects volunteers with seniors needing Spanish and Chinese translation services.
Winding down his tenure as the first head of New York City Cyber Command, Geoff Brown has taken a two-year part-time teaching position at the Institute.
At the Human Rights Forum held at the Institute in October, language studies students, speaking in their nonnative languages, presented their research on current human rights issues, while teams of student interpreters relayed the presentations into multiple languages.
Luz Vazquez-Ramos MPAIEM ’17 turned her fifth-semester practicum—a Mexican study-abroad opportunity for DACA recipients—into an established educational program that gives undocumented individuals the chance to legally visit, and return from, the country they haven’t seen since childhood.
From poetry on climate change to translations to the future of the global nuclear order, see what members of the Institute community have recently published.
Maureen Sweeney MPA ’94, deputy chief of the interpreting staff for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, developed a remote interpreting program to expand language services at the Games while giving MIIS students and recent graduates a chance to test their skills in a high-profile, real-world setting.
Professor Moyara Ruehsen, head of the Institute’s Financial Crime Management program, shares how she became an expert on money laundering, how it’s evolving, and how careers in money laundering investigation are fighting it.
Dean of the Institute Jeff Dayton-Johnson gave a virtual talk on the concept of freedom in the U.S. and how it can—and can’t—be measured by traditional economic indicators.
