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Anu Joshi
Director of Outreach
Phone: 202-546-3950 x 102
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Anu Joshi is the Director of Outreach of Citizens for Global Solutions. Anu manages and supports chapter activity and stimulates political will and activism in organization members. In addition, Anu will be managing and supporting the newly created Network for Responsible Global Policy.
Anu is a native Californian and spent 6 years at the University of California, Berkeley earning her undergraduate degree in Political Science and her Masters Degree in Social Welfare. While at Berkeley Anu was active in student government and community organizing. She was the Chair of the "No on Proposition 54" Statewide coalition and served as President of the UC Student Association representing 200,000 students to the Legislature, Governor, media and UC Regents. After receiving her Masters in Social Welfare, Anu worked as a Child Welfare Worker in the San Francisco Bay Area for 2 years. In July of 2008 Anu quit her job, packed up her car and drove from California to rural North Florida to work as a Field Organizer for the Barack Obama Campaign. Anu loves television, is committed to a life of social justice and misses the sandy beaches and warm weather of Southern California.
Recent Blog Posts
On this day 66 years ago (1945) the 5 permanent members of the Security Council and a majority of the 46 member countries voted to establish the United Nations as the method to establish a lasting peace for all mankind. Today we celebrate the 66th Anniversary of the signing of the UN Charter. The role and usefulness of the United Nations will be an issue that has and will continue to be debated ardently (especially in this country, but also around the world). But, on this day I realize that the words that the founders used in drafting the UN Charter still ring true today and can act as the guide in our quest “to maintain international peace and security.”
Last week I attended the Social Good Summit in New York City, hosted by the United Nations Foundation, Mashable and Ericsson. In every panel and key note the underlying theme of the interdependence between individuals and UN Agencies made itself known. In some cases individual countries were instrumental to the success of a program and in some cases technology was, but in every case without the institutional support, expertise and legitimacy of the UN and without the innovation, willingness to risk and passion of the individuals, success was impossible. Nowhere was this partnership highlighted more than on the panel discussing the 46 million displaced people in the world. The moderator put it best when he stated: "Technology must come with a generous helping of hope, because technology alone is not the answer."
For the last two and a half days I have been attending the Social Good Summit at the 92nd Street Y in New York City (on the Upper East Side). The event is a collaboration between the United Nations Foundation, Mashable and Ericsson (the CEO of whom I leave the Summit with a rather large crush on), a unique partnership of a large scale non profit, a social media expert and a ground breaking mobile company. The conference focused on highlighting individual and small group actions that have made significant changes to save the world. I've been live tweeting my experiences and I can barely contain my excitement during some of the panels (i.e.