As a highschooler, Richard Choularton volunteered for a disaster relief NGO in his hometown, loading medical supplies onto pallets in aircraft to be flown to the site of earthquakes and other rapid-onset disasters.
When Choularton graduated from college, he decided to pursue a career in emergency relief. After discovering that most of the available positions were with the United Nations, and required both a master’s degree and fluency in multiple official U.N. languages, he enrolled in a master’s program in risk, crisis, and disaster management and moved to Cuba to learn Spanish.
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