The Right Memorial For Ken Bacon

I admit to cringing when I get an email invitation to participate in a meeting in the Sergio Vieira de Mello Conference Room at UNHCR. Or when I sit in a meeting in the Julia Taft Conference Room at Interaction. Certainly, Sergio and Julia participated in their share of meetings in their time --- how could they not have? But fundamentally they were humanitarians who imposed their wills on the world to make it a better place. Their legacies and conference rooms don’t mix.

From Ken's Predecessor

Almost a decade ago, Ken Bacon picked up the Refugees International reins from me.  My objective, drawing on RI's experience with Indochinese refugees, had been to take our early warning voice  worldwide.

But it was under Ken's leadership, that RI's voice in the media and via the RI website resounded, becoming the leading voice for displaced people around the world.  And it was Ken who built RI into a  wider-stanced, more durable organization.

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