The war in Ukraine has had ripple effects across the globe. Our first source can answer questions about nuclear disarmament and our second can talk about the privileged and marginalized communities in Central and Southeast Europe.

Togzhan Kassenova is a senior fellow with the Project on International Security, Commerce, and Economic Statecraft (PISCES) at the Center for Policy Research at The State University of New York, Albany, and a nonresident fellow with the nuclear policy program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. 
 
She is an expert on nuclear politics, nonproliferation of weapons of mass destruction, and financial crime prevention. She is a Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialist (CAMS) and works on issues related to restricting countries from accessing international financial institutions to fund weapons of mass destruction. The United Nations’ Office on Drugs and Crime consults her to train governments and financial institutions how to track the illicit funding of WMDs.

Sunnie Rucker-Chang will join the Slavic and East European languages and cultures and African and African American studies departments at the Ohio State University as an associate professor. She works, writes and teaches primarily on the social construction of race and culture as it relates to privileged and marginalized communities in Central and Southeast Europe.
 
In her research, Rucker-Chang studies how literature and film contribute to culture and nationalist identities, especially in the creation of minority and majority groups. Her other research interests include émigré and exile literature and the application of post-colonial thought to post-socialist contexts. 

Other sources of interest this week.

There's a monkeypox outbreak in the U.K. and Europe. You probably have questions.

Dr. Seema Yasmin is director of the Stanford Health Communication Initiative, a clinical assistant professor in Stanford University’s department of medicine. A journalist and expert in epidemiology, she has served as a disease detective at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Sources of the Week on the news

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• Tracy Hadden Loh says the shift away from downtown being a central business district was a trend that began before the pandemic. Now many metropolitan areas are trying to reinvent themselves.
• Jessica Lavariega Monforti talked to The New York Times about the history of Cinco de Mayo.
• Erika Zavaleta spoke to The Washington Post about the importance of maintaining the biodiversity of our planet by assisting our ecosystems’ resilience to climate change. 
• Vox consulted Khiara Bridges, asking her what Biden could potential do to save abortion rights. 
• What is the most important factor in your child’s development? The Atlantic cited Raj Chetty’s study of American neighborhoods and metropolitan areas.
• TED Radio Hour Comics illustrated Sean Sherman’s work to bring back Indigenous cuisine.
• Dr. Oni Blackstock wrote in The Nation, about the devastating consequences of Congress’s failure to act on COVID. 
• What is it actually like to work for Elon Musk in one of his Chinese factories? In The Guardian, Wilfred Chan wrote about the labor rights and safety violations faced by workers.

Watch:

• On PBS NewsHour, Michelle Sugihara talked about the power of seeing AAPI representation on screens. 
• Tiana Epps-Johnson spoke about the need to overhaul the election infrastructure in the United States at TED.
• Sean Sherman shared about his efforts to preserve Native American cuisine through his restaurant on PBS NewsHour.
• Victoria DeFrancesco Soto spoke to MSNBC’s 11th Hour about Senate Democrats desperate attempt to pass a law protecting abortion rights.

Listen:

• Ana Gonzalez-Barrera spoke to WBEZ Chicago about the discrimination that Afro-Latinos face in the United States. 
• On Consider This, Nita Farahany weighed the consequences of growing genetic testing technology.
• Adolphus Belk Jr. discusses on Morning Edition whether the Buffalo shooter can be prosecuted under The Emmett Till Antilynching Act.