"Madeleine Albright, Trailblazing Secretary of State, Dies"
Read the TIME Magazine magazine obituary for Madeleine Albright, featuring remarks from Our Secure Future’s Jolynn Shoemaker on her impact on women’s leadership.
“From the perspective of women’s leadership, it was obviously a huge shift in terms of showing that a woman could be a successful Secretary of State, and I think the optics of that were not lost on an entire generation or more of women.”
“She’s had a very significant imprint on how we think about the world and how we think about U.S. contributions and influence in the world,” says Jolynn Shoemaker, a professor of national security and a fellow at Our Secure Future, where she focuses on women’s leadership in foreign policy.
Yudian (Rainbow) Tao recently completed the PPNT Boot Camp, where she explored nuclear challenges from both technical and policy angles. The programme fostered cross-disciplinary learning, expert mentorship and a shared commitment to nuclear risk reduction.
At the ICAN Academy 2025, Olamide Samuel urged young changemakers to rethink security beyond deterrence—highlighting finance and narrative as powerful tools to dismantle nuclear danger.
