All Aboard the Compassion Bus

With Jen Murtazashvili!

This week we welcome Jennifer Murtazashvili, the Founding Director of the Center for Governance and Markets and a Professor at the University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public and International Affairs. We talk about an interfaith initiative she co-founded with a Muslim colleague, what it was like living as a Jewish woman in Afghanistan and Uzbekistan, and the differences she notices between American and foreign college students.

We discuss:

• Jen and a Muslim professor bring peace to the University of Pittsburgh campus

• The best compliment to get from a student

• Activism requires certainty

• Common heroes

• International students vs. American students

• In this house we believe in yard signs

• Living in Uzbekistan and Afghanistan

• Fact checking Borat

• Real quick - Ukraine!

• Reverse Birthright trip