Letter from the Young Ambassadors Program Leadership Dear Reader, The WCAPS Young Ambassadors Board presents to you the premiere version of the Young Ambassadors Journal of Global Affairs. The culmination of these five policy recommendations written by women of color covers a variety of issue areas that are relevant and researched and most importantly the passion areas for our members. These women are emerging experts and professionals in their fields of international development, national security, peace, and technology. Their contributions are representative of the areas of the world they want to improve and fortify the skills to do just that. We hope you will find the topics to be timely and thought-provoking and will support the distribution of this publication as a way to amplify these first-time publishers. We are thankful to the Women of Color Advancing Peace Security and Conflict Transformation organization for welcoming the thoughts and ideas of first-time publishers. In addition to the editorial team for volunteering their time to help shape our writer’s pieces. Special thanks to continued support from the WCAPS team, Executive Director, Shalonda Spencer, and Kynnedi Taylor-Henry, Foreign Policy and Programs Lead. Without their leadership, this publication would not be possible. Our mission is to increase the dialogue of young women of color to transform the representation of women of color in peace and security conversations happening on a global scale. We look forward to continuing to build the Young Ambassador Program for those who follow.
Young Ambassadors Leadership Co-Chair, Mansi Thakar Foreign Policy & Research Director, Alexi Santiago
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