The Social Change Career Podcast

This is a must-hear episode for everyone interested in peacebuilding. Originally from Egypt, and originally trained as a lawyer, Dr. Amr Abdalla has built an extraordinary career as a researcher, academic, teacher, trainer, story-teller and overall good human.   In Episode 14 of Season 7 Dr. Amr Abdalla walks us through his journey in Egypt as a young lawyer and his move to the U.S.  A remarkable, humble, grounded and very wise account of how he became a globally respected scholar for peace and conflict resolution.   Dr. Abdalla is Professor Emeritus at the United Nations-mandated University for Peace (UPEACE).  He is also the Senior Advisor on Conflict Resolution at the Washington-based organization KARAMAH (Muslim Women Lawyers for Human Rights).   What is perhaps most interesting is Dr. Abdalla’s YouTube channel of Peace Stories.   Check out previous seasons & episodes of our Award-Winning Social Change Career Podcast. *Episode recorded on October 19th , 2020   Key Links: In Peace, Amr University of Peace Amr’s LinkedIn     Related Topics ***COVID-19*** PCDN.global wants to be there for our community in these trying times.  Please join for free EVERY THURSDAY at noon EST PCDN Impact Career Chats.  Learn from some of the world leader innovators about advancing your career of impact.  Connect with other professionals.   PCDN Coaching Services. We love to help you because of your commitment to change. Helping the world is a tough business.  So let us help you so you continue your mission. Book a 15 minute free consult.   Need career advice? Need it now? Join PCDN Career Helping Line. Go ask your questions, help answer others and participate in fruitful discussion to advance your social change career.   Almost 20k individuals and organizations already receive this amazing resource to keep them up to date and ready to put their passion into action. Subscribe to new and improved Daily or Weekly Newsletter   This episode was brought to you thanks to the Rotary Peace Fellowship: Are you an existing or emerging peace leader looking to take your career to the next level? You might be eligible to receive full funding to pursue a MA or professional certificate in peace & conflict studies. Learn more about Rotary Peace Fellowships at www.rotary.org/peace-fellowships              

Do you know that you can use design methods to solve social problems? Do you wonder how to become a designer focused on bringing positive social change?  In Episode 13 of Season 7 Sara Cantor, one of the world’s leading voices in human-centered design, walk us through her journey from the corporate world to co-founding Greater Good Studio which focuses on inserting design methods to resolve systemic problems.  Sara Cantor is co-founder and executive director of Greater Good Studio. Sara holds a master’s in design planning from the Institute of Design at IIT and a bachelor’s in mechanical engineering from Northwestern University. Check out previous seasons & episodes of our Award-Winning Social Change Career Podcast. *Episode recorded on October 15th , 2020   Key Links: Greater Good Studio Sara Cantor’s Linkedin The Art of Innovation Book   Related Topics ***COVID-19*** PCDN.global wants to be there for our community in these trying times.  Please join for free EVERY THURSDAY at noon EST PCDN Impact Career Chats.  Learn from some of the world leader innovators about advancing your career of impact.  Connect with other professionals. PCDN Coaching Services. We love to help you because of your commitment to change. Helping the world is a tough business.  So let us help you so you continue your mission. Book a 15 minute free consult. Need career advice? Need it now? Join PCDN Career Helping Line. Go ask your questions, help answer others and participate in fruitful discussion to advance your social change career. Almost 20k individuals and organizations already receive this amazing resource to keep them up to date and ready to put their passion into action. Subscribe to new and improved Daily or Weekly Newsletter   This episode was brought to you thanks to the Rotary Peace Fellowship: Are you an existing or emerging peace leader looking to take your career to the next level? You might be eligible to receive full funding to pursue a MA or professional certificate in peace & conflict studies. Learn more about Rotary Peace Fellowships at www.rotary.org/peace-fellowships          

What happens when you bring a journalist to the show? The guest doesn’t only want to answer questions, she interviewed me [show host] as well. Welcome to a special episode of The Social Change Career Podcast with Kara Andrade and Catalina Rojas. In Episode 12 of Season 7 Kara Andrade tells the story of how her family immigrated from Guatemala to the U.S; growing up in the U.S; becoming a journalist and now juggling work while finishing a PhD. Kara Andrade has more than 15 years of experience working in the United States and Latin America as a bilingual journalist, entrepreneur and multimedia producer for a variety of leading media organizations including Al Jazeera America, Americas Quarterly, Associated Press, Christian Science Monitor, CNN, France 24, Global Post, The Huffington Post, National Public Radio, The New York Times and others. She consulted as a trainer and coordinator for the Astraea Foundation, the U.S. Institute of Peace, U.S. State Department, the World Bank and others.  Kara is an Ashoka Fellow and currently is the Program Director at the International Center for Journalists.  Don’t miss the episode of the two Latinas talking about the challenges of being a women in academia; what it means to be a journalist and social change maker these days.    Check out previous seasons & episodes of our Award-Winning Social Change Career Podcast.  *Episode recorded on October 24th , 2020 ** While in the recording it says Episode 11 its actually Episode 12.  Oops. Key Links: Kara Andrade’s Linkedin Kara Andrade’s website Ashoka   Related Topics ***COVID-19*** PCDN.global wants to be there for our community in these trying times.  Please join for free EVERY THURSDAY at noon EST PCDN Impact Career Chats.  Learn from some of the world leader innovators about advancing your career of impact.  Connect with other professionals.   PCDN Coaching Services. We love to help you because of your commitment to change. Helping the world is a tough business.  So let us help you so you continue your mission. Book a 15 minute free consult.   Need career advice? Need it now? Join PCDN Career Helping Line. Go ask your questions, help answer others and participate in fruitful discussion to advance your social change career.   Almost 20k individuals and organizations already receive this amazing resource to keep them up to date and ready to put their passion into action. Subscribe to new and improved Daily or Weekly Newsletter   This episode was brought to you thanks to the Rotary Peace Fellowship: Are you an existing or emerging peace leader looking to take your career to the next level? You might be eligible to receive full funding to pursue a MA or professional certificate in peace & conflict studies. Learn more about Rotary Peace Fellowships at www.rotary.org/peace-fellowships        

Fiona Macaulay works at the intersection of innovation, leadership and global development. She’s a serial social entrepreneur, educator and field-builder.    In Episode 11* of Season 7, Fiona shares how her leadership experience initiated in her involvement in student-led business.  Fiona talks about her “fateful coffee” that changed the course of her life that took her to South Africa for two years.  This experience led her to create Making Cents which she co-founded and led for 20 years.  She is currently involved in her second enterprise, the WILD network or the Women Innovators and Leaders Development Network- to support women social innovators to scale their impact, and thrive personally. Fiona is currently leading the movement of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion with her WILD Network in the Global Development space.  She shares about WILD's upcoming annual forum; their most recent impact review and what are the top skills to navigate the fields of Global Development and Social Entrepreneurship.   Check out previous seasons & episodes of our Award-Winning Social Change Career Podcast.  *Episode recorded on September 23rd , 2020 ** Originally this was episode 12 but for technical reasons it was aired as Episode 11th   Key Links: WILD Annual Forum Oct 26-28, 2020 WILD Network WILD’s effectiveness report Fiona’s Failure Video   Related Topics ***COVID-19*** PCDN.global wants to be there for our community in these trying times.  Please join for free EVERY THURSDAY at noon EST PCDN Impact Career Chats.  Learn from some of the world leader innovators about advancing your career of impact.  Connect with other professionals. PCDN Coaching Services. We love to help you because of your commitment to change. Helping the world is a tough business.  So let us help you so you continue your mission. Book a 15 minute free consult. Need career advice? Need it now? Join PCDN Career Helping Line. Go ask your questions, help answer others and participate in fruitful discussion to advance your social change career.   Almost 20k individuals and organizations already receive this amazing resource to keep them up to date and ready to put their passion into action. Subscribe to new and improved Daily or Weekly Newsletter   This episode was brought to you thanks to the Rotary Peace Fellowship:   Are you an existing or emerging peace leader looking to take your career to the next level? You might be eligible to receive full funding to pursue a MA or professional certificate in peace & conflict studies. Learn more about Rotary Peace Fellowships at www.rotary.org/peace-fellowships              

Kerstin Tebbe is the networking whisperer. An international development/humanitarian response professional interested in non-traditional approaches to change across all sectors.   If you think networking is just to there to help you get jobs, you are in for a huge surprise.  Networking is skill, a strategy to advance your career and also a tool to affect positive social change.  If you want to hear from a truly network expert, someone building networking as a field of knowledge, you need to listen to this episode. In Episode 10 of Season 7, you hear about how, during Kerstin’s earlier work years, she discovered the need for capacity building in networks (for impact professionals in general).  Kerstin shares her career as an independent consultant and ultimately the process of founding her own organization Collective Minds, dedicated to changing the world through networks. Listen to a wonderful, real and informative conversation with Kerstin Tebbe. Check out previous seasons & episodes of our Award-Winning Social Change Career Podcast.  *Episode recorded on August 21st , 2020   Key Links: Collective Mind Inter-agency Network for Education Emergencies Kerstin Tebbe’s Linkedin   Related Topics ***COVID-19*** PCDN.global wants to be there for our community in these trying times.  Please join for free EVERY THURSDAY at noon EST PCDN Impact Career Chats.  Learn from some of the world leader innovators about advancing your career of impact.  Connect with other professionals.   PCDN Coaching Services. We love to help you because of your commitment to change. Helping the world is a tough business.  So let us help you so you continue your mission. Book a 15 minute free consult.   Need career advice? Need it now? Join PCDN Career Helping Line. Go ask your questions, help answer others and participate in fruitful discussion to advance your social change career.   Almost 20k individuals and organizations already receive this amazing resource to keep them up to date and ready to put their passion into action. Subscribe to new and improved Daily or Weekly Newsletter   This episode was brought to you thanks to the Rotary Peace Fellowship: Are you an existing or emerging peace leader looking to take your career to the next level? You might be eligible to receive full funding to pursue a MA or professional certificate in peace & conflict studies. Learn more about Rotary Peace Fellowships at www.rotary.org/peace-fellowships              

If you ever wondered what is an academic entrepreneur, this is your episode.  Dr. Patricia Marquez, serves in a dual role at the University of San Diego as the Associate Provost for Academic Planning and Innovation and as Dean of the Joan B. Kroc School of Peace Studies. Getting into and completing a PhD is hard. Finding tenure work as an academic is even harder, try being a woman, an immigrant, and imagine becoming Dean and Associate Provost of a top US School.  In Episode 9 of Season 7, you hear her growing up in her native Caracas; the remarkable influence of women in her life to instill a love for learning and a constant and lifelong state of curiosity.  Dean Patricia is very clear on her why and that has marked who and how she works.  Listen how she has successfully built successful academic careers in higher education settings in both Venezuela and the U.S.  Listen to her career tips; her view on the future of higher education and how to bring, positivism, grit and tenacity to your life and work. Check out previous seasons & episodes of our Award-Winning Social Change Career Podcast.   *Episode recorded on August 14th , 2020   Key Links:   Joan B. Kroc School of Peace Studies 2020 Fowler Global Social Innovation Award Patricia’s Ted Talk IESA     Related Topics   ***COVID-19*** PCDN.global wants to be there for our community in these trying times.  Please join for free EVERY THURSDAY at noon EST PCDN Impact Career Chats.  Learn from some of the world leader innovators about advancing your career of impact.  Connect with other professionals.   PCDN Coaching Services. We love to help you because of your commitment to change. Helping the world is a tough business.  So let us help you so you continue your mission. Book a 15 minute free consult.   Need career advice? Need it now? Join PCDN Career Helping Line. Go ask your questions, help answer others and participate in fruitful discussion to advance your social change career.   Almost 20k individuals and organizations already receive this amazing resource to keep them up to date and ready to put their passion into action. Subscribe to new and improved Daily or Weekly Newsletter   This episode was brought to you thanks to the Rotary Peace Fellowship: Are you an existing or emerging peace leader looking to take your career to the next level? You might be eligible to receive full funding to pursue a MA or professional certificate in peace & conflict studies. Learn more about Rotary Peace Fellowships at www.rotary.org/peace-fellowships              

Forbes30under30, Ashoka Fellow, CEO and co-founder of a social enterprise, brilliant engineer from Carnegie Mellon University, Pablo Santaeufemia is by all measures a bright impact professional. Beyond degrees, languages spoken and accomplishments, Pablo is very intentional of how he wants to expand the space of entrepreneurship for all.    In Episode 8 of Season 7, you hear how his social enterprise, Bridge for Billions, is breaking the inequality gap in the eco-system.  Also, Pablo shares his earlier years and how his humble origins inspire what he does. With great humility he walks us through his brilliant career as an engineer working globally and how he ultimately pivoted and co-founded his ever-expanding social enterprise, Bridge for Billions.   Check out previous seasons & episodes of our Award-Winning Social Change Career Podcast.   *Episode recorded on August 7th , 2020   Key Links:   Bridge for Billions Innovate with Purpose Podcast United World College     Related Topics   ***COVID-19*** PCDN.global wants to be there for our community in these trying times.  Please join for free EVERY THURSDAY at noon EST PCDN Impact Career Chats.  Learn from some of the world leader innovators about advancing your career of impact.  Connect with other professionals.   PCDN Coaching Services. We love to help you because of your commitment to change. Helping the world is a tough business.  So let us help you so you continue your mission. Book a 15 minute free consult.   Need career advice? Need it now? Join PCDN Career Helping Line. Go ask your questions, help answer others and participate in fruitful discussion to advance your social change career.   Almost 20k individuals and organizations already receive this amazing resource to keep them up to date and ready to put their passion into action. Subscribe to new and improved Daily or Weekly Newsletter   This episode was brought to you thanks to the Rotary Peace Fellowship: Are you an existing or emerging peace leader looking to take your career to the next level? You might be eligible to receive full funding to pursue a MA or professional certificate in peace & conflict studies. Learn more about Rotary Peace Fellowships at www.rotary.org/peace-fellowships

A career in the arts is hard enough, a career in the arts as a tool for positive social change is even harder.  If you are passionate about how to build a successful career integrating the arts into social change, you need to listen to Sara Lahayne's story. A life-long dancer who channeled her love for the arts and created an incredible organization, Move This World, an award winning ed-tech company that delivers social and emotional learning tools directly to students. In Episode 7 of Season 7, Sara tells us her aha! moment during her Fullbright days in Bogotá that led to the creation of Move this World.  Sara’s career, together with all her (too many to list) accolades is an inspiration to all of us who want to create change through the combination of arts and technology. Check out previous seasons & episodes of our Award-Winning Social Change Career Podcast. *Episode recorded on July 28th , 2020   Key Links:    Move This World Sara’s site Free resources for mental health during Covid-19     Related Topics ***COVID-19*** PCDN.global wants to be there for our community in these trying times.  Please join for free EVERY THURSDAY at noon EST PCDN Impact Career Chats.  Learn from some of the world leader innovators about advancing your career of impact.  Connect with other professionals.   PCDN Coaching Services. We love to help you because of your commitment to change. Helping the world is a tough business.  So let us help you so you continue your mission. Book a 15 minute free consult. Need career advice? Need it now? Join PCDN Career Helping Line. Go ask your questions, help answer others and participate in fruitful discussion to advance your social change career. Almost 20k individuals and organizations already receive this amazing resource to keep them up to date and ready to put their passion into action. Subscribe to new and improved Daily or Weekly Newsletter   This episode was brought to you thanks to the Rotary Peace Fellowship: Are you an existing or emerging peace leader looking to take your career to the next level? You might be eligible to receive full funding to pursue a MA or professional certificate in peace & conflict studies. Learn more about Rotary Peace Fellowships at www.rotary.org/peace-fellowships              

Frustrated by the field experience requirement? Curious how to get your first field work assignment? You need to sit down and listen to Hana’ Abdullah Raja Jum’ah who has accrued over 113 months in humanitarian, fragile and development contexts including Iraq, Yemen, Syria, Jordan, Lebanon, Algeria and Tunisia. In Episode 6 of Season 7, you listen how Hana, while studying Geology, developed a taste for volunteering and has one of the most remarkable stories of volunteerism in peace & social change; her tenure at Generations for Peace; and ultimately developing a wide range of skills and field work experience leading her to work with OIM, Mercy Corps, FHI360, Queen Rania Foundation, Oxfam and others. Hana reflects on the future of field work in the covid-19 reality; how it is to be a field worker as a woman and her tips for starting a career in the field.  Check out previous seasons & episodes of our Award-Winning Social Change Career Podcast.   *Episode recorded on July 20th , 2020   Key Links:   Generations for Peace   Hana’s LinkedIn   Related Topics   ***COVID-19*** PCDN.global wants to be there for our community in these trying times.  Please join for free EVERY THURSDAY at noon EST PCDN Impact Career Chats.  Learn from some of the world leader innovators about advancing your career of impact.  Connect with other professionals.   PCDN Coaching Services. We love to help you because of your commitment to change. Helping the world is a tough business.  So let us help you so you continue your mission. Book a 15 minute free consult.   Need career advice? Need it now? Join PCDN Career Helping Line. Go ask your questions, help answer others and participate in fruitful discussion to advance your social change career.   Almost 20k individuals and organizations already receive this amazing resource to keep them up to date and ready to put their passion into action. Subscribe to new and improved Daily or Weekly Newsletter   This episode was brought to you thanks to the Rotary Peace Fellowship:   Are you an existing or emerging peace leader looking to take your career to the next level? You might be eligible to receive full funding to pursue a MA or professional certificate in peace & conflict studies. Learn more about Rotary Peace Fellowships at www.rotary.org/peace-fellowships        

What do bagels, podcasts and law have in common? Ken Frankel is the right answer.  Fellow podcaster, with an impressive career as a lawyer, 5 years as the OAS (Organization of Americas States) legal counsel, law professor at Belgian and American Universities. Currently the President of the Canadian Council for the Americas, Kenneth N. Frankel “Ken” is equal parts as impressive, as he is grounded and very, very witty. In Episode 5 of Season 7, Ken shares how his upbringing in northern New Jersey shaped his career to a great extent.  From his experience as a lawyer working in Miami during the “Miami Vice” years; to how he jumped into the private sector; to his tenure with the OAS, this is a great episode for those wondering how do you change the world as a lawyer. Most importantly, learn all about Ken’s life-long passion for all things Latin American and his unwavering support for New York Bagels. Check out previous seasons & episodes of our Award-Winning Social Change Career Podcast. *Episode recorded on July 14th , 2020 Key Links: Canadian Council for the Americas Two Gringos with Questions Podcast Organization of Americas States Related Topics PCDN Coaching Services. We love to help you because of your commitment to change. Helping the world is a tough business.  So let us help you so you continue your mission. Book a 15 minute free consult. Become a member of the PCDN Career Campus to get daily access (to job opportunities) community (network with other impact professionals); learning with sector-experts and receive guidance from PCDN Career Coaches.   This episode was brought to you thanks to the Rotary Peace Fellowship: Are you an existing or emerging peace leader looking to take your career to the next level? You might be eligible to receive full funding to pursue a MA or professional certificate in peace & conflict studies. Learn more about Rotary Peace Fellowships at www.rotary.org/peace-fellowships