It’s been exactly two years since my first day on Wall Street, where I was plucked from the nonprofit world to support the Sanctions and Embargoes program of a large financial firm. On that first morning I was told that …
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Reflections on 2018: the Year of the Multi-hyphen
2018 has gone on for an eternity. It was the year that I was happily pulled in all sort of different directions. It was also the year that creative pursuits officially became part of my definition of “work”, a term …
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Colombia Weighs the Cost of Peace ahead of May Elections
After 52 years of war, the Western hemisphere’s longest running conflict came to an end when Colombia signed its historic Peace Accords in 2016. Now the controversial peace deal between the Colombian government and FARC rebels may be in jeopardy …
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Year in Review: The Best and Worst Gender Stories of 2017
It’s the second week of 2018 and there’s already good news breaking on the gender equality front: the pay gap is now illegal in Iceland, the #MeToo movement has turned into the more actionable #Times Up, and the buzz is …
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Times Talk: Exposing Male Abuse of Power
Last week, I had the pleasure of attending the Exposing Male Abuse of Power Times Talk, hosted by the New York Times here in NYC. The all female panel, three New York Times investigative reporters that broke some of the …
Policy Brief: Food Security in Nigeria
I've recently written a policy brief on market development programs and their impact on food security in Nigeria. This is an overview of what market development programs are, how they work and which major international donors are currently implementing these …
Peacebuilding: The Cyprus Problem
For being a relatively tiny island nation in the Mediterranean, Cyprus and its political woes have been a thorn in the side of the international community by remaining one of the world’s longest running intractable conflicts. Being from the island …
Maria Polychronis 