Foreign Affairs Symposium: Erlendy Cuero Bravo

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Erlendy Cuero Bravo will visit Johns Hopkins University as part of the annual Foreign Affairs Symposium. Bravo is vice president of the National Association of Displaced Afro-Colombians (AFRODES) and a legal representative for victims of violence and torture. Bravo is the winner of the symposium's annual Smedinghoff Award, created in honor of Johns Hopkins graduate and former symposium co-chair Anne Smedinghoff who was killed in 2013 by a suicide bomber in Afghanistan.

Founded in 1997, the annual Foreign Affairs Symposium is run by students and sponsored by the university's Office of Student Development and Programming.