Contents: TransAfrica Forum Launches New Policy Institute • New Members Join TransAfrica Forum Board of Directors • Coca Cola Foundation Awards Grant to the International Careers Program • Calendar of Events • With a grant from the Carnegie Corporation of New York, TransAfrica Forum began the TransAfrica Forum Policy Institute. The institute will apply rigorous scholarly research to develop innovative foreign policies, based on the principle that U.S. foreign policy should create conditions that will serve the interests of the people of both the African world and the U.S. It has two primary audiences: the African-American community (especially leaders in the public and private sector)...
Contents: TransAfrica Forum Launches New Policy Institute • New Members Join TransAfrica Forum Board of Directors • Coca Cola Foundation Awards Grant to the International Careers Program • Calendar of Events • With a grant from the Carnegie Corporation of New York, TransAfrica Forum began the TransAfrica Forum Policy Institute. The institute will apply rigorous scholarly research to develop innovative foreign policies, based on the principle that U.S. foreign policy should create conditions that will serve the interests of the people of both the African world and the U.S. It has two primary audiences: the African-American community (especially leaders in the public and private sector) and the broader community interested in foreign policy, both inside and outside government. The policy institute will be managed by Dr. Cherri Waters, former director of the research and evaluation program of the African Development Foundation and the new Executive Director of TransAfrica Forum. Robert S. Browne will be an Adjunct Fellow. Browne is a distinguished economist who served as Staff Director for the Subcommittee on International Development, Finance, Trade, and Monetary Policy of the House Banking Committee and as U.S. Executive Director to the African Development Fund in Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire. On November 2, 1995, a lecture on "A New Agenda for U.5.-Caribbean Relationships" by the Right Honorable Michael Manley, former Prime Minister of Jamaica, will formally launch the institute. In June, TransAfrica Forum elected three new board members: Peter C.B. Bynoe, Rudnick and Wolfe; The Honorable A. Leon Higginbotham, Jr., Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton and Garrison; and James A. Joseph, President and CEO, Council on Foundations, Washington, D.C. A grant from the Coca Cola Foundation will fund continue TransAfrica Forum's Education for Careers in International Affairs Program. Other TransAfrica Forum Board members are Edward Lewis, Essence Communications, Emelda Cathcart, Dr. Locksley Edmondson, Donna Brown Guillaume, Dr. Sylvia Hill, Dr. Edmond J. Keller, Bertram Lee, Harriet Michel, Charles Ogletree, and Randall Robinson, Upcoming events will feature Marita Golden, Reed Kramer of AfricaNews, Bertie Howard, and Abdias do Nascimento and Elisa Larkin Nascimento from Brazil.
