Tue, May 23
|Athenaeum
Caltech Y Presents: Jane Olson, "Being a World Citizen"
Please join us for an intimate discussion with Jane Olson as she talks about her global humanitarian efforts and new book, "World Citizen: Journeys of a Humanitarian."
Time & Location
May 23, 2023, 6:00 PM – 9:00 PM
Athenaeum, 551 S Hill Ave, Pasadena, CA 91106, USA
About The Event
Jane Olson has worked as a volunteer for decades to promote peace and justice through international human rights and humanitarian organizations. She chaired the International Board of Trustees of Human Rights Watch from 2004 to 2010 and served as co-chair of the Women’s Refugee Commission. As founding board chair of Landmine Survivors Network (LSN)/Survivor Corps, she served as a leader for 12 years.
Jane traveled extensively with these and other humanitarian organizations to Nicaragua and El Salvador during the Contra Wars and to the former Soviet Union beginning with trips to Ukraine in 1989 and 1990, a time of revolution. As the former USSR fell apart and wars broke out, she participated in investigative trips to the former Yugoslavia during “ethnic cleansing” of Bosnia, and to the Caucasus countries of Azerbaijan and Armenia.
Additional missions to many countries in Africa, the Middle East, Asia, and Latin America focused on human…
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