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Her outfit of a warm, light blue knitted sweater, khaki pants, and comfortable shoes is completed by a pair of virtual reality glasses, put on with great care to avoid messing up her white hair. Instantly, she’s transported from the nursing home in Palaia Fokaia, Attica, to an exhibition at the Museum of Cycladic Art in Athens.

Highways and rural roads. Hard, winding roads. Dirt roads and steep alleyways. Sea routes among far-flung islands, driving winds, and massive waves. In the seven years since their first mission, the Mobile Medical Units (MMUs) of the nonprofit Regeneration & Progress have traveled many different roads, on land and sea, but they have all led to the same place: helping people.

Democracies, fears Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF) Agora Institute Senior Fellow Anne Applebaum, are showing “a lack of coherence, a lack of a sense of who we are and what our values are.”

United States Congressman Jamie Raskin, chair of the House Subcommittee on Civil Rights and Civil Liberties, will join Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF) Agora Institute inaugural director Hahrie Han for a conversation on Making Your Voice Count: Activism, Voting, and the Democratic Ideal.

Hahrie Han, inaugural director of the Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF) Agora Institute at Johns Hopkins University, has been recognized with a Schwab Foundation Social Innovation Thought Leader Award announced as part of the World Economic Forum Davos Agenda.

Now settled into its new home on campus, the Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF) Center for the Study of Hellenic Culture at the University of California, Los Angeles has a full schedule of public events this winter, covering broad ground from the history of everybody’s favorite Greek biscuits to storied ceramics caught up in war.