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Five for Friday
A Weekly Digest from the Bush Center

June 26, 2020

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Finding Hope and Availability

Bestselling author Bob Goff, whose latest book Dream Big is out this week, has crossed the globe to spend his favorite currency: kindness. But in the latest issue of the Bush Institute’s The Catalyst , he explains how you can spread hope in your own neighborhood.
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In Focus


ECONOMIC GROWTH | Central America Prosperity Project
This week, Bush Institute-SMU Economic Growth Initiative Managing Director Matthew Rooney led two conversations regarding the urgent need for continued U.S. support in Central America, and for the region to promote broader use of mobile technologies to remove obstacles and create more robust economic growth. The conversations highlighted a new Bush Institute-SMU Economic Growth Initiative report.
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AFGHANISTAN | Q&A With WE Lead Scholar Homa Usmany
WE Lead Scholar Homa Usmany shares updates from Afghanistan and the ways she is helping empower women in her community during COVID-19.
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WOMEN'S INITIATIVE | Human Rights and Gender Equality
Kim Jong-un’s sister, Kim Yo-jong, has recently received international attention. In an op-ed for Inside Sources <[link removed]>, Natalie Gonnella-Platts, Director of the Bush Institute’s Women’s Initiative, and Chris Walsh, Senior Program Manager in that initiative, argue that women in power who do not exemplify principled leadership — like Kim Yo-jong — further fortify the barriers facing women at all levels of society.
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GLOBAL LEADERSHIP | Updates on Russia
Lindsay Lloyd, the Bush Institute’s Bradford M. Freeman Director of Human Freedom Initiative, talks with David Kramer, a member of the initiative's advisory council, about current affairs in Russia and why we should be paying attention.
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