For over 35 years, John Prendergast has worked as a human rights and anti-corruption activist to create and sustain peace in Africa. He served as the Director of African Affairs on the National Security Council under the Clinton Administration, and has founded and worked for a variety of humanitarian organizations.

Prendergast is the founding director of the Enough Project, an organization aimed at countering genocide and crimes against humanity, and co-founder of The Sentry, an investigative initiative chasing the assets of African war criminals and their international collaborators.

John Prendergast was recently at the University of Chicago to speak with Obama Scholars in the Harris School’s Masters of Arts in International Development and Policy (MAIDP).

Lauren Manning (Harris MPP ’20), a Fellow with the Pearson Institute for the Study and Resolution of Global Conflict, sat down with John Prendergast to discuss his work as a human rights activist, recent trends in Africa, and advice for future aspiring humanitarian activists.

Credits:
Lauren Manning (MPP '20), interviewer
Haz Yano (MPP '20), producer, engineer, and editor

Special thanks to the Obama Scholars program for bringing Mr. Prendergast to the University of Chicago.