Project Simplify

Project Simplify’s goal is to take complex, politicized topics and sum them up in under ten minutes. My name’s Neha and I’m currently a Junior at CU Boulder studying International Affairs with a certificate in Peace, Conflict and Security Studies! While I started this as a fun hobby, I really found a passion in learning and being able to educate people on what can sometimes be confusing topics.

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Episodes

The Taliban Takeover

This episode was made as a final project for one of my classes! Here I go into detail on how the Taliban managed to take over Afghanistan in just one summer.

Dec 14, 2021•9 min•Transcript available on Metacast

Dissecting the Middle East: Afghanistan

This episode focuses on the Soviet-Afghan war and the US Invasion of Afghanistan.

Aug 14, 2020•7 min•Transcript available on Metacast

Dissecting the Middle East: Iraq

Here I’ll be going over Saddam Hussein, the Iran-Iraq War, the Invasion of Iraq and the Civil War tgat followed.

Aug 07, 2020•9 min•Transcript available on Metacast

Dissecting the Middle East: Iran

This episode explains the CIA Operation Ajax, the Iranian Revolution, and the Iran-Iraq war.

Aug 04, 2020•10 min•Transcript available on Metacast

Yemen Explained

This episode goes into detail about the current humanitarian crisis in Yemen and explains how it all came to be.

Jul 10, 2020•9 min•Transcript available on Metacast

The War on Drugs

This episode goes into how the War on Drugs has lead to one of the worst problems for POC: mass incarceration.

Jul 05, 2020•9 min•Transcript available on Metacast

The Race Against HIV

HIV disproportionately affects African Americans over any other race. This episode delves into some of the reasons behind this disparity, such as mass incarceration, social networks and social stigmas, which in the end can all be put to institutional racism. Initially, this episode was made for a final project for one of my classes.

Jul 04, 2020•8 min•Ep 1•Transcript available on Metacast