Alum Meets Secretary of State During USAID Tour

Jean-Marc Gorelick, ESIA MA ’09, a USAID Foreign Service Officer, is currently serving as a senior elections advisor in Afghanistan, where presidential and provincial elections are slated to occur on Apr. 5, 2014. “Inclusive, credible and transparent elections are critical to securing Afghanistan’s democratic future,” Gorelick said in an email. Gorelick recently met Secretary of […]

5 Questions: Alum Author Shares Afghanistan Experience

As we recently shared, Carlos Terrones, CCAS BA ’98, published the book, The Other Front in Afghanistan: Stories of Maiwand Building Governance & Development.  Terrones, an international development practitioner, has worked on international development projects related to good governance and civil society in Eastern Europe, the Middle East, Asia, and Latin America.   We caught up […]

Alumna Named Deputy Director of Fellowship Affairs at Council on Foreign Relations

Victoria Alekhine, ESIA BA ’06, TSPPPA MPA ’08, was promoted to deputy director of fellowship affairs at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) in Aug. 2013. Alekhine works in the organization’s headquarters in New York, NY. Founded in 1921, CFR is an independent, nonpartisan membership organization, think tank and publisher. CFR’s mission is to be […]