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Career Spotlight: Hailey Woldt (SFS’08)

Hailey Woldt (SFS’08) on co-founding the startup BeConnections, an international networking and community platform for small and medium sized businesses.

Mary Grace Reich (SFS’13): A ‘Woman for Others’ in the Peace Corps

Georgetown’s Jesuit values of service inspired Mary Grace Reich (SFS’13) to travel to rural Namibia as a Peace Corps volunteer, where she teaches English and works on local initiatives for education and clean water.

Claire Naylor (SFS’11) and Claire Charamnac (SFS’11) – Co-founders, Women LEAD

Claire Naylor (SFS’11) and Claire Charamnac (SFS’11) co-founded Women LEAD, the first and only leadership development organization for young women in Nepal—a country where approximately 60 percent of women are illiterate and a third of girls ages 15-19 are married.

Collaborative Divorce Law: Regina DeMeo (SFS’94) on Redefining Family Law

Regina DeMeo (SFS’94) is a family law attorney in Washington, D.C., who incorporates mediation, collaborative law, psychology, and other methods to assist families going through divorce crises.

Wine Tasting With Alumna Lisa Granik (SFS/MSFS’81,’85)

Lisa Granik, (SFS/MSFS’81,’85) came to Georgetown on October 20 and organized a very special wine tasting seminar with students and professors from MSFS. Granik shared her extensive knowledge of wine and answered questions from the audience.

Sebastian Bae (SSP’15) Travels Back to Iraq After Marine Corps Service

Bae returned to Iraq as a writer with a medical charity after his service there as a Marine in the Iraq War. He details in Foreign Policy how each experience perpetuated a different kind of fear.

MSFS Alumna Wendy Cutler to Lead Asia Society’s DC Office

MarketWatch reports that Asia Society has appointed Wendy Cutler (MSFS’83) as head of its Washington, D.C. office and Vice President of the Asia Society Policy Institute (ASPI), a think tank that aims to bring Asia to the forefront of global policy making. Currently, Cutler is Acting Deputy U.S. Trade Representative.

SFS Students and Alumna Make 40 Under 40: Latinos in Foreign Policy List

SFS graduate students Elvia Valle, MAGES’17 and Francisco Bencosme, SSP’17 and alumna Ginny Barahona, MSFS’05, landed on the 40 Under 40: Latinos in ‪#Foreign Policy‬ list published on Huffington Post.

Alaina Teplitz (SFS’91) Sworn in As U.S. Ambassador to Nepal

The Honorable Alaina Teplitz (SFS’91) was sworn in as the next U.S. Ambassador to Nepal on September 29. Teplitz has goals “to strengthen Nepal’s democracy, advance its economic growth and improve its resiliency” following the April 25 earthquake that resulted in extensive damage to the small nation.

King and Queen of Spain Visit Georgetown

King Felipe VI (MSFS’95) and Queen Letizia of Spain stopped by Georgetown yesterday during their four-day U.S. visit to open the Joint Meeting of Spanish Scientists in the United States.

SFS Alumna Katie Kingsbury (SFS ’01) Wins Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Writing

Katie Kingsbury (SFS ’01) credits her time at SFS and her study-abroad experience as valuable preparation for her travels as a journalist. “It inspires you,” she said. “You want go to these places you’ve studied and then you meet so…

Alumna Q&A: Kathy McCabe (SFS’95)

Kathy McCabe (SFS’95) looks back at her time at Georgetown and how that appreciation for experiencing another culture led to her current work running her award-winning travel newsletter and PBS travel series “Dream of Italy.”

Mo Elleithee (F’94) to Lead New Georgetown Institute of Politics and Public Service

Mo Elleithee (SFS’94), a 20-year veteran of national politics and School of Foreign Service alumnus, has been appointed as executive director of Georgetown’s newest institute, the Institute of Politics and Public Service.

SFS Mourns the Loss of Arab Studies Graduate Nina Brekelmans

The SFS community is deeply saddened to learn of the death on June 3, 2015 of Nina Brekelmans (MAAS ’15), who graduated from the MA in Arab Studies in May. We extend our most heartfelt condolences to Nina’s family, friends, and colleagues, and join them in mourning her tragic and premature passing.

Bill Clinton Lecture Emphasizes Purpose, ‘Radical Inclusion’

Georgetown alumnus and 42nd President of the United States Bill Clinton gives his third lecture in a series, talking about purpose, vision and ‘radical inclusion’ as the hallmarks of successful leaders.

SFS Alumni Cross Paths at the U.S. Embassy in Guatemala

“Our shared SFS background means a lot to me as I start my career in the Foreign Service,” said Monty McGee (MSFS’12). “Seeing a fellow Hoya at the pinnacle of his career who is as excited, if not more, than I am is encouraging and inspiring!”

MSFS Alumnus On His Work For Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf

“At MSFS, you are drilled through the skills that result in high quality decision-making and exercising great judgment,” Moore said. “That’s how I could go from a Program Officer to Public Works Minister-Designate in five years.”

Professor Anthony Arend on Foreign Policy Challenges of Obama’s 2nd Term

Professor Anthony Clark Arend discussed foreign policy challenges for President Obama’s 2nd Term on Voice of America.

SFS-Qatar Students, Alumna Working On School For Afghan Refugees

Three students and an alumna from Georgetown’s School of Foreign Service in Doha, Qatar, are coming together to build a school in a village inhabited by Afghan refugees in Islamabad, Pakistan.

SFS Alumnus Supports U.S. Government Response on Ebola

Jeremy Konyndyk (MSFS ‘03), Director of USAID’s Office of U.S. Foreign Disaster Assistance, has been working in disaster relief for many years but the Ebola epidemic raging in West Africa now is the first time he has seen this disease cause an outbreak of such scope.