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MICAELA WHITE
The Atlantic
|February 2026
By the beginning of 2025, there was a famine in Sudan, which meant that it was only a matter of time before the U.S.government dispatched Micaela White to the scene. She was America's fixer of choice.
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SENIOR HUMANITARIAN ADVISER
UNITED STATES AGENCY FOR INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT 2009-2025
Over her 16 years working for USAID, she was sent to manage the humanitarian response to catastrophes in Libya, Syria, Ukraine, and Gaza. Through street savvy and force of will, she could make the awful a little less so.
This story is from the February 2026 edition of The Atlantic.
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