{"id":37844,"date":"2024-04-25T14:35:54","date_gmt":"2024-04-25T18:35:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/polisci\/?post_type=cu_people&#038;p=37844"},"modified":"2026-02-18T14:36:00","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T19:36:00","slug":"barbra-chimhandamba","status":"publish","type":"cu_people","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/polisci\/people\/barbra-chimhandamba\/","title":{"rendered":"Barbra Chimhandamba"},"content":{"rendered":"<header class=\"mb-6 cu-pageheader cu-component-updated md:mb-12\">\n    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 pb-5 after:w-10 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px\">\n                    \n             \n                \n            <\/h1>\n\n    \n    <\/header>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"582\" src=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/polisci\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/212\/Barbra.Chimhandamba_original_600x582_Alum.jpg\" alt=\"photo of Barbra Chimhandamba\" class=\"wp-image-37845\" srcset=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/polisci\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/212\/Barbra.Chimhandamba_original_600x582_Alum.jpg 640w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/polisci\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/212\/Barbra.Chimhandamba_original_600x582_Alum-160x146.jpg 160w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/polisci\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/212\/Barbra.Chimhandamba_original_600x582_Alum-240x218.jpg 240w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/polisci\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/212\/Barbra.Chimhandamba_original_600x582_Alum-400x364.jpg 400w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/polisci\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/212\/Barbra.Chimhandamba_original_600x582_Alum-360x327.jpg 360w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 id=\"public-policy-advisor-canadian-foodgrains-bank\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">Public Policy Advisor \u2013 Canadian Foodgrains Bank<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>PhD in Political Science, 2022<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I completed my PhD in Political Science in January 2022 and immediately secured a position as an Alex Trebek postdoctoral fellow at the Centre for International Policy Studies at the University of Ottawa for 14 months. During that time, I co-published a policy brief entitled &#8220;Canada-African Union Relations: Towards A Shared Agenda&#8221; (with R. Abrahamsen), in February 2023. I also co-edited a Special Issue in <em>Global Studies Quarterly<\/em> 3(3) 2023 (with R. Abrahamsen and F. Chipato) and co-authored \u201cIntroduction: The African Union, Pan-Africanism and the Liberal World (Dis)Order\u201d <em>Global Studies Quarterly<\/em> 3(3) 2023 (with R. Abrahamsen and F. Chipato).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In August 2023, I started my current position as a Public Policy Advisor at Canadian Foodgrains Bank, a Christian non-profit organization working to end global hunger. Based in Ottawa, I am part of a project team working to influence public policy changes necessary to end global hunger, with a focus on increasing Canadians&#8217; support for international development assistance and aid for agricultural development in the Global South. My responsibilities also include government relations and advocacy.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"not-prose cu-quote cu-component-spacing\">\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>Apart from the enjoyable and supportive educational experience at Carleton, my professors, staff and my peers provided an amazing network that has opened doors in my career.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"cu_people_first_name":"Barbra","cu_people_last_name":"Chimhandamba","cu_people_initials":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"cu_people_type":[54,99],"cu_people_expertise":[],"class_list":["post-37844","cu_people","type-cu_people","status-publish","hentry","cu_people_type-alumni","cu_people_type-phd"],"acf":{"cu_people_job_title":"","cu_people_degree":"","cu_building":false,"cu_people_office_num":"","cu_people_pronoun":"none","cu_people_designation":"","cu_people_email":"","cu_people_phone":"","cu_people_phone_ext":"","cu_people_linkedin":"","cu_people_bluesky":"","cu_people_twitter":"","cu_people_instagram":"","cu_people_facebook":"","cu_people_website":"","cu_people_orcid":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/polisci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people\/37844","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/polisci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/polisci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/cu_people"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/polisci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/polisci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people\/37844\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37908,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/polisci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people\/37844\/revisions\/37908"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/polisci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"cu_people_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/polisci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people_type?post=37844"},{"taxonomy":"cu_people_expertise","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/polisci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people_expertise?post=37844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}