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Video Interviews: FPD World Views: Interview on Haiti with Monika Kalra Varma

Foreign Policy Digest is pleased to present the following interview with Monika Kalra Varma, the Director of the Robert F. Kennedy Center for Justice and Human Rights. Ms. Varma sat down with Adam Benz, Foreign Policy Digest’s Editor-in-Chief, to discuss ways in which the U.S. and international community can best assist Haiti with the country’s current humanitarian crisis and in its long-term goals of building a better future for the Haitian people.

The interview marks the most recent installment of Foreign Policy Digest “World Views”, a series of interviews on contemporary foreign affairs topics conducted by the staff of Foreign Policy Digest with diplomats and foreign policy-makers, available on the Foreign Policy Digest website and the Foreign Policy Digest channel on YouTube.

Adam Benz is the former Editor-in-Chief of Foreign Policy Digest.

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About the Author

Adam Benz

Mr. Benz obtained his undergraduate degree from Princeton University, where he majored in Politics, earning a Certificate in Latin American Studies. Mr. Benz completed his graduate education at the George Washington University, where he received a Juris Doctorate degree from the law school along with a Master’s degree in International Affairs with a double concentration in International Law and International Economics at the Elliott School of International Affairs. As an undergraduate, Mr. Benz worked firsthand alongside indigenous communities in rural Honduras and Belize on economic development projects, in addition to assisting in establishing the first academic exchange between Princeton University and the University of Havana. Since then, Mr. Benz has worked and volunteered as a writer and researcher with a number of organizations on topics relating to international law, comparative law, and international affairs, including the United Nations Consultation on Women and the Right to Housing, the Inter-American Dialogue, and the Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Center for Human Rights. Most recently, Mr. Benz worked as an associate at a DC-based law firm specializing in tribal law, federal lobbying, and tribal-state intergovernmental relations. Mr. Benz is a member of the California Bar.

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