BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//NextToU//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ebd5bc09-0388-4a2d-98ea-3547f0273ed8@nexttoyou DTSTAMP:20261106T170857Z DTSTART:20261113T160000Z DTEND:20261113T170000Z SUMMARY:2026 Ramsey Lecture LOCATION:Richard B. Russell Special Collections Libraries\, Auditorium (27 1) DESCRIPTION:Join us for the 2026 Ramsey Lecture\, entitled “Health as a Hu man Right: The Carter Center’s Long Road to Creating Change” presented by Paige Carmichael\, Chief Executive Office\, The Carter Center.\n\nA lunc h reception will immediately follow.\n\n---\n\nPaige Alexander serves as chief executive officer of The Carter Center\, a nonprofit organization f ounded in 1982 by former U.S. President Jimmy Carter and former First Lad y Rosalynn Carter to advance peace and health worldwide. Alexander has st rengthened the Center’s core peace and health programs and led the organi zation in new directions\, including adding programs to address: the glob al mental health crisis\; political polarization in the US\; and the impa ct of climate change on global peace and public health. Previously\, Alex ander worked at the United States Agency for International Development\, IREX\, the European Cooperative for Rural Development\, Project Liberty a t Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government\, and was a c onsultant to institutions including the C.S. Mott Foundation\, the Rockef eller Brothers Fund\, and the Open Society Institute in Prague.\n\nThe Ra msey Lecture Series honors the University of Georgia’s most generous indi vidual benefactor\, the late Bernard B. Ramsey (BS ’37)\, long-time chair man of the board of Merrill Lynch. His lifetime gifts totaled more than $ 44 million and included more than $23 million to fund the Foundation Fell owship program\, the University’s most prestigious scholarship\, in addit ion \n\nhttp://next-to-u.app/events/ebd5bc09-0388-4a2d-98ea-3547f0273ed8 URL:http://next-to-u.app/events/ebd5bc09-0388-4a2d-98ea-3547f0273ed8 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR