Career Connections Program Set for October in NYC

I presented at the LA Career Connections Seminar. It’s designed to support State Department (and Peace Corps) program alum seeking careers! I highly recommend it. Career Connections seminars bring together U.S. alumni of U.S. government-sponsored exchange programs with expert career coaches, professionals from diverse fields, and international leaders. Whether you’re changing careers, looking to advance, orContinueContinue reading “Career Connections Program Set for October in NYC”

The Peace Journalist, Call for Submissions, Deadline 9/5/19

You are invited to submit an article for the October, 2019 edition of the Peace Journalist magazine. We are seeking articles of 500-1500 words about peace and media projects, workshops, seminars, courses, and so on. Our magazine is journalism and media focused, so we do not seek articles about peace projects that do not relateContinueContinue reading “The Peace Journalist, Call for Submissions, Deadline 9/5/19”

Community Colleges and the Challenge of Violent Extremism

Originally posted on David J. Smith Consulting, LLC:
By: David J. Smith, May 1, 2015 Consider these three recent events. In the first case, a self-proclaimed neo-Nazi kills his college work-study supervisor. The killer claims to hate gays, and killed his boss because he was gay. In the second case, two brothers of Muslim Chechen…