All members of the campus community are invited to join the Global Engagement Program for United Nation Semester class briefings, every Friday morning from Feb. 12 – April 23, 2021.
Meeting Link: https://newpaltz.webex.com/newpaltz/j.php?MTID=m5221cbf27954abffb5fd1142ec7690c1
Meeting number: 178 588 0757
Password: UN2021
(February 12)
10-11:00 Marta Pedrejas Previously Sustainable Development Policy Specialist with the Regional Bureau for Latin America and the Caribbean. UN Development Programme
11:15-12:15 Masooma Rahmaty, Program Officer, Sustainable Development Goals International Peace Institute, New Paltz alumnus
(February 19)
10:00-11:00 Bruce Knotts Director Unitarian Universalist Association Office at the UN
11:15-12-15 Sylvia Paola Mendoza, Second Secretary in charge of SDGs, and Tonie Jáquez Huacuja, First Secretary in charge of Political Affairs, Permanent Mission of Mexico to the UN
(February 26)
10-11 UNEP, Satwant Kaur, Communications Officer, UN Environment Program Asia Pacific Office
11:15 Agnes Harm, Deputy Permanent Representative of Permanent Mission of Fiji to the United Nations (on: Climate Change)
(March 5)
10:00-11:00 Human Rights Nenad Vasic, UN Assistant Secretary-General for Human Rights
11:15-12:15 Amnesty International UN Office Representative Renzo Pomi
(March 12)
10-11:00 ICJ/Legal Affairs Francesco Messineo, Legal Officer at the UN Office of Legal Affairs
11:15-12:15 EU MISSION
(March 19)
10:00-11:00 UN Women Gabriella Brovsky, Knowledge Management & Capacity Development Specialist at UN Women
11:15-12:15 World Food Program, Shada Moghraby, Communications Officer
(March 26)
10:00-11:00 Office of the Coordination for Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), Charistian Clark, Chief, Public Advocacy & Campaigns Section, United Nations OCHA
11:15-12:15 UNHCR Fyras Kayal, Senior Policy Advisor United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
(April 9)
10:00-11:00 Peacekeeping Lonjezo Hamisi, Associate Information Officer, Yearbook of the United Nations, Outreach Division, United Nations
11:15-12:15 Selected PKO Mission
(April 16)
10:00-11:00 Selected PKO Mission
11:15-12:15 Pierre-David JEAN, First Secretary (Political) Permanent Mission of Canada to the UN (Focus:Peacekeeping)
April 23
10:00- 11:00 Terrorism or RTP – TBD
11:15-12:15 Us Mission to the UN, Ahmad Shama Political Officer Security Council and First Committee (New Paltz Alumnus) and Margaret McElligott
