This summer, a team from the Humanitarian Collaborative’s Summer Cohort—comprising Alumni Practitioner Fellows Madison Cohen, Baillie McNitt, and Anna Grace Calhoun, as well as students Chiara Purificato (MPP),

By Gabriella Bartlett, Lucy Bassett, Charles Bradley, and Grace Shawah University of Virginia Humanitarian Collaborative As we mark World Refugee Day in 2025–at a time when over 123 million people are

To mark this year’s World Refugee Day, the Humanitarian Collaborative co-published a blog with Amna, a refugee-founded and refugee-led organization. With escalating conflicts, climate crises, and economic instability amid

For World Refugee Day, the Humanitarian Collaborative published a blog with the Moving Minds Alliance, a multi-stakeholder alliance focused on early childhood development in crisis response. The blog shares insights

As part of the Humanitarian Collaborative’s Summer Cohort, Practitioner Fellow Kate Katch led an interactive workshop focused on using storytelling to influence decision-makers. The session emphasized the strategic value

In response to the rapidly shifting humanitarian landscape—marked by declining donor contributions, disrupted U.S. foreign assistance, and widespread job losses across the sector—the Humanitarian Collaborative launched a

Humanitarian Collaborative’s Co-Director and Professor of Practice Lucy Bassett presented at a conference in Istanbul, Turkey, “The Developmental and Healing Role of Play,” hosted by Uskudar University. Her talk,

Sanny Yang served as the Operations Intern at the Humanitarian Collaborative during the 2024-2025 academic year while pursuing her Masters of Public Policy at the UVA Frank Batten School of

Jeanne Ward, Practitioner Fellow at the Humanitarian Collaborative, reflected on her 25-year career addressing violence against women (VAW) as part of the monthly “Batesvillians – in their own words” series. Drawing