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Interview with Catherine Cousar

Catherine Cousar holds a master’s degree in global policy studies from the University of Texas and a bachelor’s degree in English...

Interview with Chelsea Cornwell

Chelsea Cornwell holds a Master’s degree in Social Work from the University of Connecticut and a Master’s in Disaster Resilience...

Interview with Ernest Ogbozor

Ernest N. Ogbozor is the newest member of the Forage Center board of directors. He is a scholar-practitioner of conflict resolution,...

Interview with Natalie Costa

Natalie Costa, often referred to as 'Talie', is in her junior year of her undergraduate degree. She is studying communication, with the...

Interview with Sarah Gresham

Sarah Gresham interned with the Forage Center this summer. She worked with Jess Bonnan-White, Director of Education and Training, to...

Interview with Lena Choudhary

Lena Choudhary, JD, MS, RN is an associate professor of nursing at Montgomery College. She has been teaching for over 8 years. Her...

Interview with Logan Varker

Logan Varker is currently an International and Global Studies major and Spanish minor at UNC-Greensboro and he participated in the...

Interview with Christy McGuire

Christy participated in the May 2018 training at LaRoche College, then returned in November 2018 as a role player and member of the...

Interview with Kathryn Rzeszut

Kathryn Rzeszut one of two new members of the Forage Center Board of Directors. On April 29th, she and Matt Collette were both approved...

Interview with William Muehl

Will Mueh first participated in Coastal Promise in Spring 2014 and returned in Spring 2017, Spring 2018 and Fall 2018 as a...

Interview with Ninette Irabaruta

Ninette Irabaruta was a participant in the Forage Center's Coastal Promise exercise in September 2018. She fled violence and political...

Coastal Promise Comes to La Roche College

A lone female border agent sits behind a plain folding table, an impatient expression plastered over an otherwise unwelcoming face. She...

Testimonial: Heather Payne

Heather was a participant in the Forage Center's Atlantic Promise in March 2016. Since then, Heather has worked with the Institute for...

Letters from Afghanistan

A number of years have passed since I last landed at Kabul International Airport. Not much has changed. Only half of the gate docking piers

Four Days in a Warehouse in Florida

Last March, I served as Assistant Director for Coastal Promise 2018, a crisis simulation put on by the Forage Center. We spent four days...

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