SmartPower and USGLC with Carey Campbell & Global Health and USAID with David Stanton Ep 38

Originally recorded: Sep 12, 2019 In this episode we will bring you conversations on an organization promoting “Smartpower” and an organization promoting development and humanitarian aid. The USGLC works in our nation’s capital and across the country to strengthen America’s civilian-led tools — development and diplomacy — alongside defense. By advocating for a strong international affairs budget, the USGLC is working to make America’s international affairs programs a keystone of U.S. foreign policy. They’re all about “Smartpower.” We’re going to learn more about USGLC from their national outreach coordinator Carey Campbell. Carey comes to the USGLC from her previous position as Chief of Staff to the South Carolina House of Representatives Deputy Minority Leader James Smith, where she oversaw all political and legislative priorities. Her previous experience includes serving as South Carolina Deputy Political Director for the Hillary for President campaign during the 2008 primaries and a former lobbyist for a South Carolina education organization. Carey has worked on numerous political campaigns at the local, state, and presidential level overseeing field, fundraising, and policy development. She graduated with honors from the University of South Carolina, where she focused on political science. She is a native of native of Decatur, Alabama and spent several years in Nashville. Carey was in Nashville recently along with Jeremy Tolbert, the Outreach Coordinator for the Southeast. They organized a community event featuring David Stanton from USAID. USAID leads international development and humanitarian efforts to save lives, reduce poverty, strengthen democratic governance and help people progress beyond assistance. It was created by President John F. Kennedy in 1961 to lead the us government’s international development and humanitarian efforts. More on the agency at: usaid.gov David Stanton is a public health leader and the former Director of the U.S. Agency for International Development’s (USAID’s) office of HIV/Aids. He has 19 years of experience working with USAID’s HIV/Aids program and over 30 years of experience in public health, including working on sexually transmitted infections, HIV and aids treatment, and clinical epidemiology. David has 4 years of overseas experience in West Africa. Additionally, he served on the transition team that established the office of the U.S. Global Aids Coordinator at the U.S. Department of State. We thank Carey and Jeremy for bringing David Stanton to Nashville and we thank Carey and David for taking time to talk with Global Tennessee.