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Keisha Effiom sat at her dining room table in Rwanda, read the email about USAID’s final mission, and started writing. The result is a memoir — and this conversation. Keisha, former USAID Mission Director for Rwanda and Burundi, joins Global Development Interrupted to trace her journey from Howard University graduate to one of USAID’s top leaders and what she chose to do when it all came crashing down. She talks candidly about the human cost of USAID’s closure, why dismissing public servants with “just get over it” is not only wrong but cruel, and how she led her team through crisis without letting her heart go hard. She also shares the story behind her memoir, I Said My Peace With Peace:…