Sally Mahé

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Senior Advisor

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Sally Mahé, Senior Advisor and founding staff person of URI, has held senior staff positions for over 20 years. Sally formerly served as URI Director of Organizational Development and Director of Global Programs, working primarily with regional staff across the world. As Senior Advisor, Sally supports the Communications Team, is on-call for consultation, and makes core URI values, practices, and organizational wisdom available to the URI global community.

Sally co-authored The Birth of a Global Community in 2003 and A Greater Democracy Day by Day. Sally holds Master's degrees from Harvard and the General Episcopal Seminary, New York. She lives in the Bay Area with her children and grandchildren nearby.

Sally maintains several recurring blog series on the URI website.

URI Stories of Impact

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Building Bridges – Nothing Else Will Do

One of my favorite bridge-building moments was with a woman selling flowers on a street in St. Petersburg.

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Palaces – Then and Now

Behold, alongside palaces from imperial Russia, fast food joints receive royal treatment.

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“It Was a Cruel Time”

“The only enemy is the one whose story you have not heard.”

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Help Each Other Hear Ourselves From the Inside

Christina, a single mother of an 8-year-old girl, runs her own “Women’s Entrepreneur Society” in Novosibirsk, the capital of Siberia.

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Sombreros in Siberia?

If our governments persist in pointing fingers of blame, escalating misinformation, and the threat of war, the people of USA and Russia must not follow along.

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Moscow’s Metro – Culture on the Move

It’s difficult to fathom the impact that this kind of grandiose propaganda had upon the generations of Russians who took these subways every day. Today, Moscow’s primarily younger generation stream past me glued to their phones.

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Buildup of Nuclear Arms Race – Cold War II

This morning, we met with Dr. Vladimir Kozin, Chief Adviser and Head of Group of Advisers to the Director at the Russian Institute for Strategic Studies of the Presidential Administration.

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KAK – HOW?

At this precarious moment, now is not the time to ask, "Can this kind of dramatic positive change happen," but to ask, "HOW to make it happen?"

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Russia Today - Building Bridges - Blog Series

URI Senior Consultant Sally Mahé shares thoughts from Russia, as she examines the actions of ordinary citizens meeting and building bridges of understanding together.

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Inheritance

At breakfast, a kundalini yoga instructor suggested I take the “Forest Trail.” She said, “it’s magical.”