Adam Isacson

Monday, April 17, 2023

• 12:00-1:00 at Center for American Progress YouTube: Guns Without Borders: Addressing the flow of U.S. firearms to Mexico and Central America (RSVP required).
• 4:00-8:00 at Race and Equality Facebook Live: Nicaragua: 5 años de crímenes de lesa humanidad (RSVP required).

Tuesday, April 18, 2023

• 10:00 in Room 562, Dirksen Senate Office Building: Hearing of the Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee on The FY24 DHS Budget: Resources and Authorities Requested to Protect and Secure the Homeland.
• 10:00 in Room 2359, Rayburn House Office Building: Hearing of the House Appropriations Subcommittee on State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs on Fiscal Year 2024 Request for the United States Agency for International Development.
• 10:00 in Room 2362-A, Rayburn House Office Building: Hearing of the House Appropriations Committee on Fiscal Year 2024 Request for the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency.
• 10:00 in Room 2247, Rayburn House Office Building: Hearing of the House Oversight and Accountability Subcommittee on National Security, the Border, and Foreign Affairs on Oversight of the Office of Refugee Resettlement’s Unaccompanied Alien Children Program.
• 10:00-11:30 at Georgetown University Zoom: “Alone and Exploited”? The Impacts of U.S. Immigration Enforcement on Child Migration and Labor (RSVP required).
• 10:30-12:00 at thedialogue.org: Information About Child Migration (RSVP required).
• 11:00-12:00 at wilsoncenter.org: Electoral Reform in Mexico: A Threat to Democracy (RSVP required).
• 2:30-4:00 at the Wilson Center and wilsoncenter.org: Nicaragua’s Political Crisis and Its Impact on the United States (RSVP required).
• 5:00-7:00 at IPS Zoom: Free the Water Defenders (RSVP required).

Wednesday, April 19, 2023

• 10:00 in Room 138, Dirksen Senate Office Building: Hearing of the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs on A Review of the President’s Fiscal Year 2024 Budget Request for the U.S. Agency for International Development.
• 10:00 in Room 310, Cannon House Office Building: Hearing of the House Homeland Security Committee on The Biden administration’s Fiscal Year 2024 budget proposal for the Department of Homeland Security.
• 10:00 at DeJusticia Zoom and YouTube: Implementación del Acuerdo de Escazú en Colombia (RSVP required).
• 12:30-1:30 at WOLA and wola.org: Women Defending Peace in Colombia–A Gendered, Environmental, and Rural Perspective (RSVP required).
• 1:00-2:00 at U. Oklahoma Center for the Americas Zoom: Migration, Deportation, and their Consequences for Central America (RSVP required).
• 2:00 in Room 2008, Rayburn House Office Building: Hearing of the House Appropriations Committee on Fiscal Year 2024 Request for the U.S. Customs and Border Protection Agency.

Monday, April 10

• 12:00-1:30 at wilsoncenter.org: The Brazil 100 Conference: A Look Into Lula’s First 100 Days (RSVP required).

Tuesday, April 11

• 10:00-11:30 at thedialogue.org: Critical Minerals in LAC: The ‘S’ in ESG (RSVP required).
• 3:30-5:00 at Georgetown University and YouTube: Seeking Truth: The Challenges and Achievements of Colombia’s Truth Commission (RSVP required).
• 6:00-7:30 at George Washington University: Dissent in Nicaragua: A Conversation with Lesther Alemán (RSVP required).

Wednesday, April 12

• 1:00-5:30 at Georgetown University: Overcoming Challenges to Fight Climate Change in Latin America (RSVP required).

Thursday, April 13

• 4:00-5:00 at Georgetown University: Can Argentina Achieve Economic Stability and Inclusive Growth? (RSVP required).

Monday, April 3, 2023

• 1:00-2:00 at the Wilson Center: Corruption, Accountability and Democracy in Brazil: Challenges and Solutions (RSVP required).

Thursday, April 6, 2023

• 11:00-12:30 at George Washington University: Resurgence Of Militarism: Views From The Global South And Implications For The United States (RSVP required).

Monday, March 27, 2023

• 5:00-6:30 at Georgetown University: The García Luna Case: Dirty Money and the War on Drugs (RSVP required).

Tuesday, March 28, 2023

• 9:00 at atlanticcouncil.org: Fostering a fourth democratic wave: A playbook for countering the authoritarian threat (RSVP required).
• 10:00 in House Visitors’ Center 210 and online: Hearing of the House Foreign Affairs Committee: Full Committee Markup of H.R. 314, H.R. 1704, H.R.1690, and H.R. 1684.
• 10:00 in room 216, Hart Senate Office Building and online: Hearing of the Senate Judiciary Committee on Oversight of the Department of Homeland Security.
• 10:00 in room 310, Cannon House Office Building and online: Hearing of the House Homeland Security Subcommittee on Oversight, Investigations, and Accountability: “Biden’s Growing Border Crisis: Death, Drugs, and Disorder on the Northern Border”.
• 10:30 in room 419, Dirksen Senate Office Building and online: Hearing of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on U.S. Support of Democracy and Human Rights.

Wednesday, March 29, 2023

• 1:30 in room 192, Dirksen Senate Office Building and online: Hearing of the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Homeland Security on A Review of the President’s FY 2024 Budget Request for the Department of Homeland Security.

Thursday, March 30, 2023

• 9:30 at the Atlantic Council and online: 2023: A pivotal moment to celebrate 200 years of US-Chile relations (RSVP required).
• 3:00-5:00 at Georgetown University: Forty years after the US invasion of Grenada: lessons for the 21st Century (RSVP required).

Friday, March 31, 2023

• 10:00 at Global Americans Zoom: The Implications of Climate Change for Indigenous and Tribal Peoples in the Caribbean (RSVP required).

Monday, March 20, 2023

• 11:00 at the Atlantic Council and online: Weathering the storms together: Improving US humanitarian efforts (RSVP required).
• 1:00-5:00 at the Wilson Center and online: Forum on Cyber-Harassment (RSVP required).
• 4:00-5:30 at wilsoncenter.org: The Ends of Modernization: Nicaragua and the United States in the Cold War Era (RSVP required).

Tuesday, March 21, 2023

• 9:00-10:00 at wilsoncenter.org: USMCA: Are the Dispute Resolution Mechanisms Functioning as Intended? (RSVP required).
• 4:00 at atlanticcouncil.org: Elevating women, fortifying democracy: What can be the road ahead in Brazil? (RSVP required).
• 4:00 at Ignatian Solidarity Network YouTube: “We Say Welcome: After Three Years of Inclusion” Binational Solidarity Action
• 4:00-5:00 at CSIS and csis.org: Plan B and the Future of Democracy in Mexico (RSVP required).
• 6:00 at Race and Equality Zoom: Reflexiones sobre la población migrante haitiana en México (RSVP required).

Wednesday, March 22, 2023

• 8:30-9:30 at the Wilson Center: U.S.-Brazil Economic Relations: New Opportunities for Trade and Investment (RSVP required).
• 10:00 in 138 Dirksen Senate Office Building and online: Hearing of the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs on Review of the Fiscal Year 2024 Budget Request for the U.S. Department of State.
• 1:30-5:00 at Race and Equality Zoom: Mecanismo sobre Raza en el Sistema Universal de Derechos Humanos: Estrategias y Próximos Pasos en Brasil (RSVP required).
• 2:30 at 419 Dirksen Senate Office Building and online: Hearing of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on American Diplomacy and Global Leadership: Review of the fy24 State Department Budget Request.
• 2:30 at 226 Dirksen Senate Office Building and online: Hearing of the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Immigration, Citizenship, & Border Safety on Living Up to America’s Promise: The Need to Bolster the U.S. Refugee Admissions Program.
• 4:00 at 2200 Rayburn House Office Building and online: Joint subcommittee hearing of the House Foreign Affairs Committee on The Ortega-Murillo Regime’s War Against the Catholic Church and Civil Society in Nicaragua: Bishop Alvarez, Political Prisoners, and Prisoners of Conscience.

Thursday, March 23, 2023

• 9:30 at G50 Dirksen Senate Office Building and online: Hearing of the Senate Armed Services Committee To Receive Testimony on the Posture of United States Northern Command and United States Southern Command in Review of the Defense Authorization Request for Fiscal Year 2024 and the Future Years Defense Program.

• 2:00 at 2359 Rayburn House Office Building and online: Hearing of the House Appropriations Subcommittee on State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs on Fiscal Year 2024 Request for the Department of State.
• 3:00 at LASA YouTube and Facebook: Venezuela in 2023 and Beyond: Charting a New Course.
• 3:00-5:00 at American University Zoom: Political Unrest in Peru (RSVP required).
• 3:30-5:00 at usip.org: Urban Peacebuilding: Lessons from Latin America’s Mayors (RSVP required).

Friday, March 24, 2023

• 9:00-10:00 at the Wilson Center: Crisis in Venezuela: Implications for Democracy, Human Rights, and the Environment (RSVP required).
• 12:00 at Instituto Mora Facebook: Día de la Memoria, la verdad y la justicia en Argentina.

Monday, March 13, 2023

• 9:10-10:00 in Vienna and online: CND Side Event: Total Peace and a New Paradigm on Drugs.

Wednesday, March 15, 2023

• 10:15 in Pharr, Texas and House Homeland Committee YouTube: Hearing of the House Committee on Homeland Security on “Failure By Design: Examining Secretary Mayorkas’ Border Crisis.”.
• 10:30 in Room 419, Dirksen Senate Office Building and online: Hearing of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on The Future of U.S.-Brazil Relations.
• 12:30-1:30 at wola.org: What Exactly is Colombia’s Total Peace Effort and How is it Advancing? (RSVP required).
• 12:00 at Connectas online: Centroamérica: sin independencia, la justicia se corrompe (RSVP required).
• 2:00-3:00 at atlanticcouncil.org: At what point does social unrest affect investment? Peru in focus (RSVP required).

Thursday, March 16, 2023

• 9:15-10:30 at the Inter-American Dialogue and online: A Conversation with Dante Mossi, Executive President of CABEI (RSVP required).
• 5:00-6:00 at Witness at the Border online: Biden’s Proposed Asylum Ban: a Disaster for Children and Families (RSVP required).

Monday, March 6, 2023

• 10:00-11:30 at gwu.edu: Our Bodies, Our Land: Rural & Indigenous Women’s Path to Sovereignty (RSVP required).
• 5:15-6:30 at IACHR YouTube: Política Fiscal y Garantía de los DESCA en la Región.

Tuesday, May 7, 2023

• 10:00 at Race and Equality WebEx and Facebook Live: The persecution of political prisoners and human rights defenders in Nicaragua: How should the UN Human Rights Council Respond?.
• 12:00-1:20 at Harvard University and Zoom: Migration on the Rise: The Roles of Work, Violence, and Climate Change (RSVP required).
• 1:00 at CIDE Zoom and YouTube: Propuesta feminista y corporaciones policíacas (RSVP required).

Wednesday, March 8, 2023

• 10:00 in Room 2118, Rayburn House Office Building and armedservices.house.gov: Hearing of the House Armed Services Committee on U.S. Military Posture and National Security Challenges in North and South America.
• 10:00 in Room 2247, Rayburn House Office Building and oversight.house.gov: Hearing of the House Oversight Subcommittee on National Security, the Border, and Foreign Affairs on Force Multipliers: Examining the Need for Additional Resources to Disrupt Transnational Crime at the Border and Beyond.
• 10:00 at Global Americans Zoom: Democracy in Latin America and the Caribbean – Unpacking Emerging Trends and the 2022 Economist Intelligence Unit Democracy Index (RSVP required).
• 10:00-11:00 at the Atlantic Council and atlanticcouncil.org: Open for business? Investing in northern Central America (RSVP required).

Thursday, May 9, 2023

• 8:30-5:00 at Johns Hopkins SAIS and online: 5th Annual Forum on Security Challenges in Latin America (RSVP required).
• 9:30-11:00 at stimson.org: The Biden Administration’s New US Conventional Arms Transfer Policy (RSVP required).
• 11:00 at migrationpolicy.org: Migration in the Caribbean: Challenges and Opportunities for a Changing Region (RSVP required).

Friday, March 10, 2023

• 2:00-3:30 at American University: Book Talk: The Foreign Policy of The Latin American States – Approaches, Methodologies and Cases (RSVP required).

Monday, February 27, 2023

• 1:00-1:45 at atlanticcouncil.org: Climate-proofing the Caribbean: A partnership for the future (RSVP required).
• 2:00 at Provea Zoom: Los laberintos de la Verdad (RSVP required).
• 4:00-5:00 at Georgetown University: Democracies Need Robust Evidence: The Mexican Evaluation System (RSVP required).

Tuesday, February 28, 2023

• 9:00-10:30 at Georgetown University: Indigenous Communities, Intergenerational Knowledge, and Climate Change in Mesoamerica (RSVP required).
• 10:00 at 310 Cannon House Office Building and at homeland.house.gov: Hearing of the House Homeland Security Committee on Every State is a Border State: Examining Secretary Mayorkas’ Border Crisis.
• 12:00-1:20 at drclas.harvard.edu: Intentional Polarization: Why do populist presidents in Latin America often turn to extremist public policies? (RSVP required).
• 2:00-3:30 at thedialogue.org: Social Protection And Disability (RSVP required).
• 6:00 at UNAM YouTube: Violencias que impiden la integración de la infancia y juventud migrante en la sociedad: xenofobia, racismo y discriminación.
• 6:00-8:00 at George Washington University: U.S. – Latin American Relations with Assistant Secretary for Western Hemisphere Affairs (RSVP required).

Wednesday, March 1, 2023

• 8:30-9:30 at stimson.org: Rethinking Accountability in the US Security Sector (RSVP required).
• 9:00 at 2141 Rayburn House Office Building and at judiciary.house.gov: Hearing of the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime and Federal Government Surveillance: The Fentanyl Crisis in America: Inaction is No Longer an Option.
• 11:00 at CMS Zoom: Beyond Title 42: Further Restrictions on the Right to Asylum in the United States (RSVP required).
• 2:00-3:30 at Georgetown University: Do You See Me? How to Support Children Separated from their Families (RSVP required).
• 3:00 at American University: Report Launch: Climate Change, Migration, and Indigenous and Tribal Peoples (RSVP required).

Thursday, March 2, 2023

• 9:00-10:45 at the Inter-American Dialogue and at thedialogue.org: Central America Forward: A Conversation with Emily Mendrala (RSVP required).

Friday, March 3, 2023

• 1:45-3:00 at wilsoncenter.org: Strengthening U.S. Cooperation on Marine Protection in Latin America (RSVP required).

Tuesday, February 21, 2023

• 10:00-11:00 at the Wilson Center and wilsoncenter.org: Putting Peru Back Together (RSVP required).
• 2:00-4:10 at stimson.org: Forum on the Arms Trade Annual Conference (RSVP required).
• 3:00-4:30 at INCAE Zoom: Experiencias exitosas en gobierno digital y auditoría social (RSVP required).
• 6:00-7:30 at csis.org: Turning up the Heat on Geothermal Energy in Latin America (RSVP required).

Wednesday, February 22, 2023

• 9:00-10:30 at wilsoncenter.org: Greening BRI Governance in Southeast Asia, Latin America and Beyond (RSVP required).
• 9:30-11:30 at csis.org: Promise and Peril: Migration Management Technologies in West Africa and Central America (RSVP required).
• 11:00-12:30 at FIU Washington DC and Zoom: A Look Inside Venezuela with Julio Borges and Paola de Alemán (RSVP required).
• 12:30-2:00 at wola.org: Reckoning with Indigenous and Afro Descendant Truth: the Ethnic Chapter of Colombia’s Truth Commission Report Webinar (RSVP required).
• 6:00-7:30 at George Washington University: Assessing the U.S. – Mexico Security Cooperation (RSVP required).

Thursday, February 23, 2023

• 12:00 at globalinitiative.net: Gobernanza punitiva y derechos humanos en Centroamérica (RSVP required).
• 4:00-5:00 at Georgetown University: Peaceful Borders and Illicit Transnational Flows: The Case of the Americas (RSVP required).
• 5:00-7:00 at George Washington University: A Conversation with Ambassador Juan Jose Gomez Camacho (RSVP required).

Saturday, February 25, 2023

• 5:00-7:00 at Busboys and Poets 14th Street: Indigenous Cinematic Resistance in the Amazon (RSVP required).

Tuesday, February 14, 2023

• 10:00-11:00 at Georgetown University Zoom: A Conversation with Robert W. Thomas, Chargé d’Affaires of the United States Embassy in Santo Domingo (RSVP required).
• 3:00-4:00 at the Wilson Center: Reflections on President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva’s Visit to Washington (RSVP required).

Wednesday, February 15, 2023

• 10:30am at foreign.senate.gov and 419 Dirksen Senate Office Building: Hearing of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Countering Illicit Fentanyl Trafficking.
• 11:00-12:30 at George Washington University Zoom: Multidimensional Quality of Employment in Latin America (RSVP required).
• 12:30-6:00 at George Washington University: Peru in Flames: Discussing Ways Forward with Former President of Peru Francisco Sagasti (RSVP required).
• 3:00-5:00 at American University: A Conversation with the Author of Unintended Consequences of Peace: Peaceful Borders and Illicit Transnational Flows** (RSVP required).
• 7:00 at energycommerce.house.gov: Hearing of the House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations and Subcommittee on Health about President Biden’s Border Crisis is a Public Health Crisis.

Thursday, February 16, 2023

• 1:00-2:00 at the Wilson Center: A Conversation with Inter-American Development Bank President Ilan Goldfajn (RSVP required).
• 5:00-6:15 at Witness at the Border mobilize.us: Journey for Justice: Reporting Back (RSVP required).

Friday, February 17, 2023

• 12:00-1:30 at George Washington University: Making Sense of Immigration Data: A Conversation With TRAC (RSVP required).

Monday, February 6, 2023

• 10:30-11:15 at csis.org: Press Briefing: Previewing President Biden’s Meeting with President Lula of Brazil (RSVP required).
• 4:00-5:00 at Georgetown University: Spotlight on the Americas: World Economic Outlook 2023 (RSVP required).

Tuesday, February 7, 2023

• 10:00 AM at oversight.house.gov: Hearing of the House Oversight and Accountability Committee On The Front Lines of the Border Crisis: A Hearing with Chief Patrol Agents.

Thursday, February 9, 2023

• 9:30-10:15 at the Wilson Center: Our Ocean Countdown: Panama 2023, the Great Blue Connection (RSVP required).
• 11:30-12:30 in Room HVC-215, Capitol Visitors Center: Missing in Brooks County: screening of clips from the documentary and presentation.

Friday, February 10, 2023

• 4:15-6:00 at the Inter-American Dialogue and thedialogue.org: Between Radicalization and Prospects for Change in Nicaragua (RSVP required).

Monday, January 30, 2023

• 4:00-5:00 at Georgetown University and YouTube: Latin America and the Caribbean in 2023: What to Expect? (RSVP required).

Wednesday, February 1, 2023

• 8:00 at amchamcolombia.co: Bases de la política de reindustrialización del Gobierno Petro (RSVP required).
• 10:00 at 2141 Rayburn House Office Building: Hearing of the House Judiciary Committee on “The Biden Border Crisis: Part I.”

Thursday, February 2, 2023

• 12:00 at Johns Hopkins Zoom: Peru’s Crisis in the Latin American Context (RSVP required).

Wednesday, January 25, 2023

• 10:00-11:00 at csis.org: Mining, Climate Risks, and the Western Hemisphere (RSVP required).
• 12:30-1:30 at wilsoncenter.org: Venezuela in 2023 and Beyond: Charting a New Course (RSVP required).
• 3:00 at ABA Zoom: Electronic Monitoring of Migrants: Alternative to Detention or Just Another Form of Punitive Custody? (RSVP required).
• 4:00-5:00 at Georgetown University Intercultural Center: Paraguay’s Future in a Turbulent Continent (RSVP required).

Thursday, January 26, 2023

• 11:00-12:30 at thdialogue.org: The Future of Women in STEM – Challenges and Opportunities in LAC (RSVP required).
• 6:00-8:00 at Busboys and Poets 14th and V NW: “After Ayotzinapa”: The Case of the 43 Disappeared Students in Mexico (RSVP required).

Friday, January 27, 2023

• 6:00-7:30 at American University Spring Valley Building: A Look Inside Venezuela: An Expert Conversation With Author William Neuman (RSVP required).

Tuesday, January 17

• 9:45-4:00 at juridicas.unam.mx: Seminario “Desmilitarizar a México: ¿dónde estamos y hacia dónde vamos?” (RSVP required).

Wednesday, January 18

• 10:00 at Global Americans Zoom: Climate Finance and the Caribbean (RSVP required).
• 11:00-3:00 at juridicas.unam.mx: Seminario “Desmilitarizar a México: ¿dónde estamos y hacia dónde vamos?” (RSVP required).
• 2:00 at LASA YouTube and Facebook: Rutas Marítimas: Migración Indocumentada en el Caribe.

Thursday, January 19

• 11:00-3:15 at juridicas.unam.mx: Seminario “Desmilitarizar a México: ¿dónde estamos y hacia dónde vamos?” (RSVP required).
• 12:30-1:30 at atlanticcouncil.org: A conversation with General Laura J. Richardson on security across the Americas (RSVP required).

Monday, December 12

• 3:00-4:30 at csis.org: Defending Transparency and Advancing Anticorruption in the Western Hemisphere (RSVP required).

Tuesday, December 13

• 10:00AM at homeland.house.gov: Hearing of the House Homeland Security Subcommittee on Intelligence & Counterterrorism on Examining the Operations of the Office of Intelligence and Analysis.
• 4:00-4:45 at heritage.org: The Illegal Immigration Industrial Complex: How Nonprofits and Corporations Are Facilitating the Border Crisis (RSVP required).

Wednesday, December 14

• 1:30-3:00 at wilsoncenter.org: 200 Years of U.S.-Mexico Bilateral Relations: An Ambassadorial Perspective (RSVP required).

Thursday, December 15

• 1:00-2:00 at atlanticcouncil.org: US-Mexico ties at the bicentennial and weeks from NALS (RSVP required).