Aitana Guia, Ph.D.
Aitana Guia is a social and political historian of Modern Europe. Her areas of expertise are nationalism, migrants, and minorities in post-war Europe. Before becoming a CSUF faculty member, Dr. Guia researched nativism as a Max Weber Postdoctoral Fellow at the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies, European University Institute in Florence, Italy. She has also worked as Assistant Protection Officer for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees in Caracas, Venezuela, and as interpreter and translator for immigrants and refugees in Canada.
Aitana Guia is a social and political historian of Modern Europe. Her areas of expertise are nationalism, migrants, and minorities in post-war Europe. Before becoming a CSUF faculty member, Dr. Guia researched nativism as a Max Weber Postdoctoral Fellow at the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies, European University Institute in Florence, Italy. She has also worked as Assistant Protection Officer for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees in Caracas, Venezuela, and as interpreter and translator for immigrants and refugees in Canada.
James Wurst
James Wurst is well-known among UN journalists as an analyst specializing in international security issues. Based at the UN since 1987, James has been a reporter for the National Journal Group, Inter Press Service, The InterDependent, and LGMA.TV, and an editor for Disarmament Times (New York) and Disarmament Campaigns (The Hague). His work has been published in anthologies, and he has held numerous positions in the United Nations Correspondents' Association (UNCA), including President (2005).
James Wurst is well-known among UN journalists as an analyst specializing in international security issues. Based at the UN since 1987, James has been a reporter for the National Journal Group, Inter Press Service, The InterDependent, and LGMA.TV, and an editor for Disarmament Times (New York) and Disarmament Campaigns (The Hague). His work has been published in anthologies, and he has held numerous positions in the United Nations Correspondents' Association (UNCA), including President (2005).
Dulcie Leimbach
Dulcie Leimbach is a fellow of the Ralph Bunche Institute for International Studies at the Graduate Center of CUNY. She is the founder of PassBlue, for which she edits and writes, covering primarily the United Nations, West Africa, peacekeeping operations and women's issues. For PassBlue and other publications, she has reported from New York and overseas in West Africa (Burkina Faso, Mali and Senegal) as well as from Europe (Scotland, Vienna, Budapest and The Hague).
Dulcie Leimbach is a fellow of the Ralph Bunche Institute for International Studies at the Graduate Center of CUNY. She is the founder of PassBlue, for which she edits and writes, covering primarily the United Nations, West Africa, peacekeeping operations and women's issues. For PassBlue and other publications, she has reported from New York and overseas in West Africa (Burkina Faso, Mali and Senegal) as well as from Europe (Scotland, Vienna, Budapest and The Hague).
Ed Elmendorf
Ed Elmendorf most recently served as President and Chief Executive of the United Nations Association of the United States of America (UNA-USA), he served in that position until the end of February 2011 during UNA-USA's strategic alliance with the United Nations Foundation. Elmendorf started his international career in the U.S. Foreign Service at the U.S. Mission to the UN under Adlai Stevenson, and has been deeply engaged with international institutions since. After working at the U.S. Mission, he became a staff member at the UN, and followed that with a 30-year career at the World Bank.
Ed Elmendorf most recently served as President and Chief Executive of the United Nations Association of the United States of America (UNA-USA), he served in that position until the end of February 2011 during UNA-USA's strategic alliance with the United Nations Foundation. Elmendorf started his international career in the U.S. Foreign Service at the U.S. Mission to the UN under Adlai Stevenson, and has been deeply engaged with international institutions since. After working at the U.S. Mission, he became a staff member at the UN, and followed that with a 30-year career at the World Bank.