SFS Stories
Alumni
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Wanjiku Ngare (SFS’13)
Wanjiku Ngare (SFS’13) is a social impact consultant and producer of the upcoming Syrian refugee documentary Dreams of Daraa. Ngare says SFS prepared her directly for her career.
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Kara Swisher (SFS’84): Editor, Journalist
Kara Swisher (SFS’84) is the co-founder and editor-at-large of Recode, a technology news website. Swisher has also worked for The Washington Post and The Wall Street Journal, and currently has an opinion column in the New York Times.
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Trae Stephens (SFS’06)
Trae Stephens (SFS’06) is a partner at Founders Fund, a venture capital firm in San Francisco. He was interested in working in national security and wanted to learn Arabic, so Georgetown was a “natural choice.” Recalling late nights in his dorm discussing foreign policy, Stephens valued going to a school with “like-minded people” who cared…
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Roger Cochetti (SFS’72)
Roger Cochetti (SFS’72) recalls, along with General George W. Casey, Jr. (SFS’70) and Frank Murray (SFS’72) what it was like to be students at Georgetown in the midst of this unrest.
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Bailey Hand (MSFS’03) reflects on time as Special Assistant to the Secretary of Defense, Leon Panetta
Bailey Hand (MSFS’03) served as Special Assistant to Defense Secretary Panetta after a decade in DoD roles across D.C., Afghanistan, and consulting.
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Aida Berio (SFS’52) reflects on fighting discrimination at City Hall and winning
Aida Berio (SFS’52) won a racial discrimination suit against the EEOC, later joining DC Mayor Marion Barry’s cabinet as Latino Affairs director.
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Sarah Margon (MSFS’05)
Sarah Margon (MSFS’05) is the Washington director at Human Rights Watch. Margon chose Georgetown most importantly because “it was in the middle of everything.”
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Michael Tyler (SFS ’11) Discusses His Journey to Chief of Staff of the DNC
The Georgetown Institute of Politics and Public Service welcomed Georgetown alumnus Michael Tyler (SFS ‘11) back to campus on October 3, 2018 for a discussion with SFS Professor Marilyn McMorrow about his experiences working for the Democratic National Committee. Within the DNC, Tyler has served as the Spokesperson and the National Press Secretary, and was…
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Foreign Minister Of Japan Taro Kono (SFS’86) Returns To Georgetown To Deliver Lloyd George Centennial Lecture
On Friday, September 28, 2018, the Walsh School of Foreign Service welcomed back alumnus Taro Kono (SFS’86), the Foreign Minister of Japan, for the second Lloyd George Centennial Lecture on the Future of Globalization. Kono delivered remarks before engaging in a conversation with Dr. Michael Green, Director of the Georgetown University Asian Studies Program, and…