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Scholar Voices Global Leadership Vision Op-Ed | Vulnerability as Power in Global Leadership By Gun Yi Park | October 2025 I am from South Korea, and I grew up without telling other people my struggles. When I moved from Korea to Indonesia at 15, I believed the best way to adapt was to stay silent about […]

Scholar Voices Global Leadership Vision Op-Ed | The Collector’s Mindset By Maya Olcer | November 2025 When I was ten, I lined my shelves with snow globes I collected across my multicultural upbringing; tiny worlds of glass and glitter frozen in time, each one a landmark of belonging. Every globe felt like a promise that […]

Scholar Voices Global Leadership Vision Op-Ed | PsychoHairapy: Re-braiding strands of life through Community By Grace Mensah-Fosu | November 2025 On May 18, 2023, the New York Times published an article titled “Black Men Don’t Do Therapy. Or so I thought,” which made me think a lot about Western conceptions of therapy and, more broadly, what it […]

Scholar Voices Global Leadership Vision Op-Ed | Lemons, Politicians, and the Need for Courage By Federico Marri | November 2025 When my friend entered politics at eighteen, she carried the kind of idealism every democracy dreams of: sharp mind, strong competence, genuine care for her community. She spent five years organizing events, paying campaign costs from […]

Scholar Voices Global Leadership Vision Op-Ed | A Billion Whys: How Generative AI May Give Voice to the Unheard By Carlos Lopez de la Cerda | October 2025 In a mountain village with no library and no teachers in any subject, a child slips on a small wearable, and for the first time, a patient tutor […]

Scholar Voices Global Leadership Vision Op-Ed | Change the Package, Keep the Core: Strategic Adaptation By Heeyeon Kim | October 2025 I was walking home after a long day in the lab, exhausted and ready to shut off my brain. As I passed the parking lot, a familiar beat drifted out of a neighbor’s car window. […]