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A Day in the Life of a Volunteer Activist in New York City
The war in Ukraine brought me to the halls of Congress and out into the streets for the first time
I grew up as a pragmatic Gen Xer in a relatively peaceful world in the 1970s and 1980s. In the 1990s, as I started early adulthood, peace, economic stability, and growth were almost guaranteed. The Iron Curtain had been broken and the Soviet Union had dissolved. For better or for worse there was one superpower patrolling the seas.
While the persistence of global terrorism, and the U.S.’s failed objective to remake the Middle East made the 2000s somewhat more turbulent, there was always a sense of security at home.
While I was interested in politics, I was not politically active beyond exercising my right as an American to vote. When I wasn't working, I was busy building my career in management consulting and traveling the world for work or pleasure.
With the rise of the economies of the BRICS nations of Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa, tensions worldwide increased. Those developing nations have been using their newfound wealth…
