CARE’s CEO Michelle Nunn spoke at a Devex event during this year’s UN General Assembly (UNGA80). She reflected on this moment in history, and shared her thoughts on how people in the aid sector speak about the work they do, on the need to move away from technical language and to connect to a wider audience.
“Somebody from the administration said to a group of us, ‘If you can’t explain what you’re doing to my mother and her Sunday school class, then you know, you have a problem,’” she said. “And I think we have to take that seriously, and I think we have an obligation to invite the American public in and to broaden the constituency of people who care about global development.”
“I think most people think that we have actually increased the number of people that are living in poverty around the world over the last decades,” she said. “They don’t recognize that we’ve decreased maternal mortality, child mortality, that there have been a host of real, important points of progress.”
Listen to the full conversation below or on YouTube: