BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Drupal: Date iCal//NONSGML kigkonsult.se iCalcreator 2.16.12// METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME;VALUE=TEXT:Ical BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20191103T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20200308T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:calendar.1222786.field_date.0@carrcenter.hks.harvard.edu DTSTAMP:20210301T011001Z DESCRIPTION:\n The Carr Center’s Human Rights in Hard Places talk series off ers unparalleled insights and analysis from the frontlines by human rights practitioners\, policy makers\, and innovators. Moderated by Sushma Raman \, the series highlights current day human rights and humanitarian concern s such as human rights in North Korea\, migration on the US-Mexico border\ , and the dismantling of democracy.\n\n\n\n Joseph Kim\, North Korean defec tor\, and Lindsay Lloyd\, Director of the Human Freedom Initiative at the George W. Bush Institute will give a talk titled\, ' \;North Korea - P erspectives from a Defector and Policymaker'\n\n\n\n Speakers:\n\n\n\n \n\n \n\n  \;Joseph Kim is the assistant to Human Freedom Initiative at the George W. Bush Institute. He was born in 1990 and grew up during the famin e in North Korea. After his father died of starvation\, he got separated f rom his mother and sister. Becoming homeless\, he lived on the streets and began begging to survive in black markets of North Korea. He eventually e scaped to China\, where he connected with an international NGO called Libe rty in North Korea\, who helped him on his journey to freedom\, resettling in the United States in 2007 as a refugee.In 2013\, he spoke about the im portance of hope at TED\, and published a memoir titled “Under the Same Sk y”. Joseph interned at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) Korea Chair as a research assistant. He completed a B.A. in politic al studies from Bard College\, and published a thesis titled\, “Marketizat ion in North Korea is Corrupting the Corrupted”.\n\n\n\n\n Lindsay Lloyd is the Bradford M. Freeman Director of the Human Freedom Initiative at the G eorge W. Bush Institute where he manages original research and programmati c efforts to advance freedom and democracy in the world. Lindsay currently leads the Bush Institute’s Freedom in North Korea project\, which raises awareness of human rights violations in North Korea\, proposes new policy solutions\, and engages leaders to help improve the lives of the North Kor ean people. Lindsay is also responsible for managing the Freedom Collectio n\, a multimedia archive that documents the stories of nonviolent freedom advocates from around the world. Prior to joining the Bush Institute\, Lin dsay served for 16 years at the International Republican Institute (IRI)\, most recently as senior advisor for policy. Previously\, he was IRI’s reg ional director for Europe and co-director of the regional program for Cent ral and Eastern Europe\, which was based in Slovakia. At IRI\, Lindsay wor ked with candidates\, elected officials\, political parties\, and civil so ciety activists to develop lasting democratic institutions.\n\n \;\n\n \n  \;\n\n DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190924T114500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190924T130000 LAST-MODIFIED:20200211T173434Z LOCATION:Wexner 102 SUMMARY:Human Rights in Hard Places Speaker Series: North Korea - Perspecti ves from a Defector and Policymaker URL;TYPE=URI:https://carrcenter.hks.harvard.edu/event/human-rights-hard-pla ces-speaker-series-north-korea-perspectives-defector-and-policymaker END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR