More Interviews from Kyiv: “They Give Us Corruption, We Give Them Revolution” — Enraged by the beating of peacefully assembled protesters the previous day, an estimated one million Ukrainians fill the streets of Kyiv on December 1 (2013). The Trade Union and Kyiv City State Administration buildings are occupied to create an opposition-led Headquarters of National Resistance. An attempt is made to storm…

More Interviews from Kyiv: The Origins of Kyivan Rus — In 2019, Adam Monier Edwards asked the question: what makes for effective citizen engagement? How do people overcome seemingly insurmountable odds to change the world? We decided to find out. With money crowdfunded on Kickstarter, I traveled to four continents to scenes of important protests and social movements of the…

A Conversation with Afghan Public Health Executive Dr. Saber Perdes — I watched with varying sentiments of horror and surprise as the Taliban, seemingly rejected by the Afghan people for two decades, swept into power during two tumultuous weeks last August. Dr. Saber Perdes is a unique voice in the growing Afghan diaspora. After leaving the country for Canada as the…

My Kyiv Interviews from “Surmountable” — In 2019, Adam Monier Edwards asked the question: what makes for effective citizen engagement? How do people overcome seemingly insurmountable odds to change the world? We decided to find out. With money crowdfunded on Kickstarter, I traveled to four continents to scenes of important protests and social movements of the…

Excerpts from the Surmountable Interview at Columbia — I was greatly saddened to read of Todd Gitlin’s recent passing. I interviewed Dr. Gitlin in his Columbia University office for Surmountable, co-authored with Adam Monier Edwards, in 2019. …