Global Development Interrupted
Global Development Interrupted, Gretchen De Silva, Tim PrewittGlobal Development Interrupted shares the stories of people whose work and lives were upended by changes to U.S. foreign assistance and why their stories still matter today, for the U.S. and the world.
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A Kid from Queens
When Jen Erie published her memoir, she expected her global development colleagues to connect with it. She didn’t expect older white men to message her saying they saw their own lives in hers.
Jen Erie grew up the daughter of Haitian immig...
Building Systems Meant to Last
When USAID closed out programs in 2025, many of us working in global health found ourselves asking the same question: what happens to all the systems we spent decades building?
For me, that question felt deeply personal.
I’ve spent more t...
The Name That Got It Killed
A scholarship program training the next generation of democratic leaders was named “Diversity and Inclusion” specifically to hide it from a military dictatorship. On day nine of the Trump presidency, that name got it canceled.
Matt Pietz s...
USAID Was a Fruit Salad. And That Was the Point
When I arrived in Dhaka for my first USAID assignment as a Foreign Service Contracting Officer (FSCO), I did not know what to expect. Even though I had previously lived overseas as a Peace Corps Volunteer, I knew serving as an FSCO would be...
We Are the Work
Keisha Effiom sat at her dining room table in Rwanda, read the email about USAID’s final mission, and started writing. The result is a memoir — and this conversation.
Keisha, former USAID Mission Director for Rwanda and Burundi, joins Glob...
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Documenting the human stories and institutional memory of global development to carry its values forward and help shape what comes next in public service.
I worked at USAID for over 6 years before I was dismissed from my position due to the administration's foreign assistance stop work order. Now I'm working to distill news and information and help everyone understand the foreign aid space.
Global development leader and former CEO of The Hunger Project and iDE, reaching tens of millions across Africa, Asia, and Latin America. Advisor to philanthropists and foundations through Kairos. Boards: One World Surgery, Pyxera Global.
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