Rethinking humanitarian aid: Why survival isn't enough (Prosper Global CEO Tjada McKenna)
About Tjada
- CEO of Prosper Global, leading 4,300+ humanitarians across 40+ countries
- Former COO of CARE and Habitat for Humanity
- 10+ years fighting global hunger at Gates Foundation and U.S. govt
- Obama-era Deputy Coordinator of Development for Feed the Future
- Led Mercy Corps rebrand to Prosper Global amid global aid upheaval
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Tjada McKenna, CEO of Prosper Global — the organization long known as Mercy Corps — joins Rapid Response during UN General Assembly week to share what she’s seeing firsthand from Syria to Sudan to Ukraine to Gaza, and why she rebranded a 40-year-old institution in the middle of a funding crisis rather than in spite of one. She explains how the Strait of Hormuz conflict is quietly writing next year’s food shortages into fragile countries right now, why Russia’s playbook of attacking civilian infrastructure has spread to conflicts around the world, and what she’s asking AI companies to do that no one has figured out yet.
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