# Jodidi Lecture with Tjada D'Oyen McKenna ## October 24, 2024 **This event is open to the public. See** [**event listing**](https://wcfia.harvard.edu/event/jodidi-2024-mckenna) **for more details.** ## “Cope, Adapt, Thrive: Ensuring Our Shared Future on a Hot and Hostile Planet” ### Speaker **Tjada D'Oyen McKenna**, CEO of Mercy Corps. ### Moderator **Melani Cammett**, Director, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Chair, Weatherhead Research Cluster on Identity Politics; Clarence Dillon Professor of International Affairs, Department of Government, Harvard University. ### Speaker Bio Tjada D’Oyen McKenna is the chief executive officer of Mercy Corps, where she leads a global team of over 5,600 humanitarians, who provide immediate relief to save lives and livelihoods and work to create transformational change reaching thirty-seven million people in more than forty countries. Previously, she served as chief operating officer of CARE, where she oversaw the organization’s programming and global operations. She has also served as chief operating officer at Habitat for Humanity. Ms. D’Oyen spent more than a decade working to end world hunger in roles with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the US government. During the Obama administration, Ms. D’Oyen served as the deputy coordinator of development for Feed the Future, the US government’s global hunger and food security initiative, and the assistant to the administrator of the US Agency for International Development’s Bureau for Food Security in Washington, DC. Ms. D’Oyen also brings a passion for innovation to her work, developed early in her career, through various roles at McKinsey & Company, American Express, and General Electric. ### About the Jodidi Lecture The [Jodidi Lecture](https://wcfia.harvard.edu/lectureships/jodidi) is among the most prominent lecture series of the Weatherhead Center and is one of the most distinguished at the University. Established in 1955, the lecture series provides for the “delivery of lectures by eminent and well-qualified persons…for the promotion of tolerance, understanding and good will among nations, and the peace of the world.” ## Contact **Sarah Banse** *Events Manager.* 1737 Cambridge Street, Room K217 Cambridge, MA 02138 \[ [Map](http://goo.gl/maps/GxyRd) \] p: (617) 495-9006 f: (617) 495-8292 ## Valuing Accessibility The Weatherhead Center for International Affairs welcomes individuals with disabilities to participate in its programs and activities. If you would like to request accommodations or have questions about the access provided, please get in touch with the person listed as the contact on the individual event listing in advance of your participation or visit. Requests for Sign Language interpreters and/or CART providers should be made at least two weeks in advance, if possible. Please note that the Weatherhead Center will make every effort to secure services, but that services are subject to availability. See also:- [ Conferences ](/content-types/conferences) - [ 2024 ](/content-types/2024)