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Jessica Alexander

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Over the past 12 years, Jessica Alexander has worked in humanitarian operations for the United Nations and various NGOs. She has responded to crises in Rwanda, Darfur, Sri Lanka, Indonesia, Myanmar, South Sudan, Pakistan, Haiti and the Horn of Africa. Alexander is a Fulbright Scholar who received the award to research child soldiers in Sierra Leone in 2006. Her research there was used as expert evidence in the case against Charles Taylor, former President of Libera.

Alexander is an Adjunct Professor at Columbia's Mailman School of Public Health, New York University’s Wagner School of Public Service, and the Institute of International Humanitarian Affairs at Fordham University. She received a Masters of Public Health and Master of Internatio ...more

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Chasing Chaos: My Decade In and Out of Humanitarian Aid

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“Doing good aid required a time commitment—not a week, not a month, but years.”
― Jessica Alexander, Chasing Chaos: My Decade In and Out of Humanitarian Aid

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