Episode 16: A Conversation with David Evangelista, Regional President & Managing Director, Europe Eurasia, Special Olympics

06/12/24 • 50 min

I am very pleased that today I get to share an inciteful and though-provoking conversation with a very special person – David Evangelista, Regional President & Managing Director of Europe Eurasia for Special Olympics.

This conversation is one of those rare occurrences where one’s perspective is forever changed. At least it was for me...and I’ll wager that it will be for you too.

This recording was made in March of 2023 for a Global Washington profile article on David, as interviewed by one of our long-time writers, Amber Cortes.

I really want to describe what’s in this interview, but I think it will be a much better journey for our listeners to simply let David’s surprising insights and perspectives unfold and reveal themselves without preamble. They’re timeless and applicable on so many levels.

Hit play, sit back, and enjoy!

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This conversation is one of those rare occurrences where one’s perspective is forever changed. At least it was for me...and I’ll wager that it will be for you too.

This recording was made in March of 2023 for a Global Washington profile article on David, as interviewed by one of our long-time writers, Amber Cortes.

Hit play, sit back, and enjoy!

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Episode 15: A Conversation with Kathleen Morris, Executive Director, IRC, Washington

Today we are excited to share with you a conversation with Kathleen Morris, the newly elected executive director of International Rescue Committee, Washington. Kristen Dailey, executive director of GlobalWA, and Kathleen had a wonderful and revealing conversation about the refugee crisis facing us today, the path to settlement in Washington State, the refugee experience, including the inspiring resilience and resourcefulness of refugees, and so much more. Special thanks to the Seattle Foundation who supplied us a room for this conversation.

Formed in 1933, IRC helps people affected by humanitarian crises—including the climate crisis—to survive, recover, and rebuild their lives. IRC is an incredible organization with very impressive results. In 2022 alone, the IRC and their partners reached over 32.9 million people in countries affected by crises.

Here are a few stats from 2022:

They’ve supported 3,137 health facilities
Provided 8,013,515 primary health care consultations
Treated 222,278 children under 5 for severe acute malnutrition
Admitted 453,344 children and 106,722 pregnant and lactating women to nutrition programs
Built or rehabilitated water supplies serving 3,490,159 people
Reached 1,421,270 people with cash assistance

And the list goes on. I encourage you to visit their website at www.rescue.org to find out more.

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Episode 18: A Conversation with Operation Snow Leopard

This is a very special episode of Goalmakers – well, all episodes of Goalmakers are special, of course, because of the incredible people we get to interview – yet this one stands apart.

Let me explain. This session chronicles a very important chapter in our history books because it narrates the heroic efforts of a team of passionate individuals that came together to conquer a huge challenge – how to get key persons out of Afghanistan after the fall of Kabul to the Taliban in the summer of 2021.

For this episode, I was privileged to be able to sit with the founders of Operation Snow Leopard, and an organizational consultant and veteran who are also part of the OSL team.

This is a story of David and Goliath, goliath being the incredible challenge of how to extricate persons from the grips of the Taliban state.

Data, paperwork, physical extraction routes, safehouses, secrecy, resettlement, more data, more paperwork, more challenges of where to settle persons...

This is a story of passion and perseverance. This is a story about the love of freedom and doing what’s right.

This is also a narrative of how myriads of disparate data needs were centralized and a professional-grade manifest database was created by Salesforce and Google to set a new standard that can be used for future evacuation efforts for a variety of situations.

And OSL’s mission is not complete, and they need more partnerships and support.

And I was very happy to hear how their membership with Global Washington helped facilitate several important connections and collaborations.

I hope you enjoy hearing about Operation Snow Leopard as much as I enjoyed interviewing this diverse, warm, smart, and welcoming group.

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