Violence against women and girls in Central America and Afghanistan has a direct relationship to migration issues in our own country. Read two recent reports by Bush Institute experts on these important issues.

• No Justice: Gender-Based Violence and Migration in Central America

• As an International Community, We Cannot Turn Our Backs on the Women and Children of Afghanistan

The Education Reform Initiative team released The Texas Story, a four-part series produced by The 74 and the Bush Institute. The reports examine how well Texas students are being prepared for the workforce as the country recovers from the pandemic.

The Bush Institute hosted a conference on workforce development in North America in December that brought together representatives of the governments of Canada, Mexico, and the United States as well as business and education leaders engaged in workforce development.

We selected our seventh cohort of 60 PLS Scholars (Class of 2022), who met virtually for the first time in January. PLS alumni are continuing to have impact in their fields:

• Chequan Lewis (Class of 2017) was named Chief Operations Officer at Pizza Hut.

• Roya Mahboob (Class of 2019) joined the Laura Bush Book Club for a timely and thought-provoking conversation on Afghanistan.