Diplomacy and the Welfare of Children with Former Ambassador Susan Jacobs

Breaking Boundaries: A podcast from Northwestern University’s Roberta Buffett Institute for Global Affairs

Former Ambassador Susan Jacobs spent much of her career in diplomacy focused on international children's issues, including a position as the United State’s first Special Advisor for International Children's Issues, helping to uphold The Hague Conventions on adoptions and abductions. In this episode, Jabobs joins Annelise Riles to talk about her career in the foreign service, as one of the first married women to become a foreign service officer, and her work as it relates to United Nations Sus...