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Welcome back to the Lincoln Project. I'm your host, Ray Jalen. Today, I'm joined by political

scientist and humanitarian expert, Alexandra Kay Vysnuska. Alexandra recently completed a one-year

mission in Ukraine with the International Humanitarian Organization, InterSUS, where she served as

the head of mission. In addition to her work in Ukraine, she's also performed work in a number of

countries, including Syria, Yemen, France, and Poland. She is a winner of the Green Hero Award of

the UN Global Compact Network, Poland, and the Green Festival Foundation for steadfastness and

actions for human rights and climate, the Karski 2020 Award for Civil Courage, and the Forbes

Polska 2525 Award in the Social Activity category. Alexandra is a graduate of Oxford University

and the London School of Economics and Political Science, and has recently returned from a trip to

Ukraine. Today, she's coming to us from Warsaw, Poland. Alexandra, welcome to the show.

Thank you very much for having me read. Thank you for having me.

So you are Polish, right? You've spent a lot of time in places away from home, doing humanitarian

kind of work. So you go from Oxford, LSE, as they call it, when in school of economics. So tell us

how you got your start, how you made it from Poland to London, and then how you embarked upon

really a life of service to others in some pretty tough places.

So I'm half Polish of Thai, so my mother's Thai, my father's Polish, I was born in Poland there,

and I have left Poland for the first time when I was about 17 years old on a scholarship

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