ONWARDS

Meetup with Binalakshmi Nepram

On March 13, 2025, Carly O’Connell of IIE-SRF moderated an informal conversation with Indigenous scholar and peacebuilder Binalakshmi “Bina” Nepram. The session was not recorded to protect the privacy of those who attended. Nepram’s work focuses on deepening democracy and championing women-led peace, security, and disarmament in Manipur, India, and in seven socio Indigenous regions […]

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Meetup with Rania Mamoun

On February 13, 2025, Rania Mamoun talked about her life as a displaced Sudanese activist and writer of poetry, fiction, and nonfiction with scholar Nevine Abraham. Their conversation was in Arabic and was not recorded to protect the privacy of those who attended. Rania completed Something Evergreen Called Life, a poetry manuscript written during COVID-19 quarantine,

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Meetup with Funmilola Ayeni

This informal conversation on January 9, 2025 featured Dr. Funmilola Ayeni, a microbiologist who was an IIE Scholar Rescue Fund fellow at Vassar College in 2019–2021 and is now a tenure-track professor. Carly O’Connell of the Scholar Rescue Fund was the host. Dr. Ayeni pursued her undergraduate education at Federal University of Technology in Akure, Nigeria,

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Building an academic portfolio

In this interactive workshop, participants learned how to develop an academic portfolio that showcased their qualifications, research, and teaching experience. The focus was on the essentials—crafting CVs, writing research statements, articulating teaching philosophies, and selecting publications—while aligning their portfolio with hiring committee expectations. To protect participants’ privacy, the workshop was not recorded. A slide deck

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