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Longtime U.S. Border Patrol official Christopher Kuhn is becoming an expert on national security issues involving an increasingly important and active region of the globe, the Arctic. That knowledge took him all the way to Midtown Manhattan in New York City during the confluence of the United Nations General Assembly and his participation on an inter-agency Arctic panel last year.

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Los Angeles, CA, firefighter paramedic Sevan Gerard has a true global view on a range of climate change impact issues from disaster medicine and public health to ecological damage mitigation and renewable energy.

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U.S. Citizenship & Immigration Services Refugee International Operations (RIO) Adjudication Officer Katelin Wright couldn’t possibly have imagined where her interest in climate change would take her. Just a few years after completing her CHDS Master’s thesis, Wright has become a leading expert on climate security issues at the Center, working on various initiatives as a kind of second career.

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Los Angeles, CA, Police Department Sgt. Elijah Lim has seen first-hand the effects of homelessness on his city and its residents as a police officer, as a lawyer, and as a social worker. That experience was a main motivating factor in deciding to make the issue the topic of his master’s thesis as his city prepares to host the 2028 Summer Olympics.

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