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An Annual Publication by theJosef Korbel School of International Studies

2013 - 2014

Special Edition Commemorating the 50th Anniversary of the School’s Founding

Courtesy of University Archives

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Front Cover: Sept. 23, 2014 - the ceremonial turning of the dirt for the Anna & John J. Sie International Relations Complex

From Left to Right - Doug Scrivner, Chair of the Board of Trustees; Ambassador Christopher R. Hill, Dean of the Josef Korbel School; Rebecca Chopp, Chancellor; John J. Sie; Anna M. Sie; Condoleezza Rice (BA ‘74, PhD ‘81); Patricia Livingston, Trustee; Catherine Shopneck, Trustee; and Gregg Kvistad, Provost & Executive Vice Chancellor

Inside Front Cover: Dec. 3, 1965 - the ceremonial turning of the dirt for Cherrington Hall

From Left to Right - Ben Cherrington; Josef Korbel, Founder & First Dean of the Josef Korbel School; and Chester M. Alter, Chancellor

On the Cover

Table of Table of Contents

Five Decades of Training Global Leaders………2Social Science Foundation………2

Greetings from Ambassador Hill………3The Future of the Josef Korbel School………5

2013-2014 Public Diplomacy Speaker Series………6Leading Global Thinkers………7

Guided by Passion: Ambassador Cindy Courville………8Golden Alumni………10

An Event of Historic Magnitude………11A Golden Celebration………12

50th in Washington, DC………13Meet the 2013-2014 Marc Nathanson Fellows………13

Building Bridges: Professor Zhao and the Center for China-US Cooperation………14Around the School………16

Welcome to the Korbel School Community………18Helen Crossley: Public Opinion Research Pioneer………19

Ben Briese: To the Korbel School by way of the Middle East………20New Program Launched in 2014………22

Q&A with INTS Undergraduate: Meet Christian Allen………24Internships @ Korbel………26

A Profi le in Global Health Affairs………27Confronting the Arab Winter: Where to Start………28

Spotlight: Mimi Fowler………29Where are they now?………31

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Editorial TeamDavid Proper, Director of Communications

Brent Forgues, MA Candidate, Student Communications CoordinatorPhilip Gassert, MA Candidate, Student Communications Coordinator

Ann Irving, Director of DevelopmentAlicia Kirkeby, Director of Alumni Relations

Jennifer Thompson, Associate Dean of External RelationsUnless otherwise noted, photos by University of Denver Photographer, Wayne Armstrong

A. Edgar BentonFloyd CiruliRobert Dean

John DeBlasioJosiah HatchBruce Heitler

Christopher R. Hill

Suki HoaglandJohn Korbel

Tilden J. LeMellePatricia LivingstonJames McGibneyKrishen Mehta

David A. Merkel

James T. PolsfutWanda Rapaczynski

David RobertsWilliam D. Stanfi ll (President)

Michael StopfordToni G. Verstandig

Social Science FoundationSocial Science FoundationDedicated to Promoting the Study of International RelationsAn integral piece of the School’s history is the Social Science Foundation. Th e Foundation traces its origins to 1923, when James H. Causey, a Denver-based investment banker and member of the University of Denver Board of Trustees, donated his equity in the Foster Building and leaseholds to the University of Denver. As a result of prudent fi nancial management, over the next several decades, the Social Science Foundation has been able to provide scholarship funds and support for innovative

programs at the Josef Korbel School, establishing the University of Denver as a major center for international activities within the Rocky Mountain region.

Today the Social Science Foundation Board manages an endowment fund that continues to support the Josef Korbel School of International Studies and to advise the University in its internationalization eff orts.

Five Decades of Training Global LeadersFive Decades of Training Global LeadersIn 1964, Czech diplomat and international studies pioneer Josef Korbel founded the school that would later bear his name. Since its founding 50 years ago, the Josef Korbel School has become a premier academic institution. Our faculty and interdisciplinary programs have launched many of our 4,700 alumni into leadership roles in the public, private and nonprofi t sectors. Th e success and meaning they have derived from their careers is a living testament to the leadership instilled by the Josef Korbel School.

Current Social Science Foundation Board

Courtesy of University Archives

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Greetings fromGreetings fromAmbassador Hill

Dear Alumni and Friends:

2014 was certainly an exciting year for the Josef Korbel School. As the University’s sesquicentennial celebration came to a close, we began our 50th anniversary celebration.

Since the School was founded by Josef Korbel, it has been the epicenter for the study of international aff airs in the Western US. Th roughout its 50-year history, some of the world’s leading global thinkers—students, faculty and renowned guests—have called our school their second home. In this issue of Global Connection you will have the opportunity to learn more about several of the individuals who make the Josef Korbel School community vibrant.

Today, we continue the work of realizing Josef Korbel’s vision. Our leading programs prepare students for dynamic careers—providing the practical skills and theoretical knowledge necessary for success. Outside of the classroom, many of our students complete meaningful internships in the US and abroad, and our centers and institutes give students opportunities to work alongside our distinguished faculty, researching and tackling some of the most pressing policy issues of our time. Furthermore, as you will see in the following pages, we remain committed to bringing the world to Denver and providing our students with direct access to the foremost voices in the international arena.

Standing on the strong foundation built by Josef Korbel we are poised to reach even greater heights during the next 50 years. Our trail-blazing faculty are already redefi ning the fi eld of international studies with innovative and forward-looking research. Additionally, we have begun construction on a new state-of-the-art building. Th is building will adjoin the School’s existing facilities to form the Anna and John J. Sie International Relations Complex—named in honor of the generous philanthropists whose leadership make the new building possible. Th e technologically advanced Sie Complex will be a hub for training tomorrow’s global leaders and its dazzling blue tower will be a jewel in the University of Denver’s skyline.

On behalf of the students, faculty and staff at the Josef Korbel School, I Th ank you for your support. Please enjoy this issue of Global Connection.

Sincerely,

Ambassador Christopher R. HillDean of the Josef Korbel School of International Studies

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Anna & John J. SieInternational Relations Complex

At the peak of its 50th Anniversary, the Josef Korbel School began a new era with the ceremonial groundbreaking on the Anna and John J. Sie International Relations Complex—made possible by a generous $17 million donation by the Anna and John J. Sie Foundation.

“Ann and I are both immigrants, who had the fortune and the privilege of coming to live and thrive in this great country, America, for more than 60 years,” said John J. Sie. “Being able to give back to the community is the ultimate high.”

Mr. Sie, founder and former chairman of Starz Entertainment Group LLC and former member of the University of Denver’s Board of Trustees, along with his wife Anna, previously donated $5.5 million to the Josef Korbel School to support the Sié Chéou-Kang Center for International Security and Diplomacy in honor of Mr. Sie’s father, a distinguished Chinese diplomat.

“On behalf of the students, faculty and staff of the Korbel School, I sincerely thank Anna and John J. Sie,” said Ambassador Christopher R. Hill, dean of the Josef Korbel School. “Because of their support, the Korbel School will take an enormous leap forward. Th eir generosity will benefi t students of

international aff airs for generations to come.”

“We are very excited and grateful to the Sies for this opportunity to continue building our international impact with this new complex,” said Rebecca Chopp, chancellor of the University of Denver.

Th e new fi ve story, 46,000 square foot addition will adjoin the Josef Korbel School’s existing facilities to form the Sie Complex, which will house the Josef Korbel School, its undergraduate and graduate programs and its 10 research centers and institutes.

According to Hill, a major feature of the Sie Complex will be technology. Hill explained, “Th e mission of the Korbel School is to prepare tomorrow’s leaders to solve the challenges they will face in our increasingly globalized world. Th e Sie Complex will be equipped with state-of-the-art tools to ensure that our students have the knowledge and skills needed to excel in their careers. Th e Josef Korbel School will also be able to increase its ability to communicate with scholars and practitioners around the world. Once it’s complete, students and faculty will collaborate with their peers in the far reaches of the globe.”

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2013-20142013-2014 Public Diplomacy Speaker Series Public Diplomacy Speaker SeriesEngaging the Community on Today’s Most Pressing Issues

Each year, the Josef Korbel School and its Sié Chéou-Kang Center for International Security & Diplomacy welcome leading voices in international aff airs to speak to the next generation of diplomatic leaders and scholars about emerging issues in global security and diplomacy.

Journalists Stephen Kinzer & David Sanger; Topic: Current

foreign policy challenges

Professor, UC Irvine School of Law, David Kaye;

Topic: International treaties

Ambassador Derek Shearer; Topic: Sports diplomacy

Lecturer, University of Glasgow, Brandon Valeriano; Topic: Cyber confl ict

Aspen Institute’s Charlie Firestone; Topic: Using network power to

advance public diplomacy

Ambassador Kathleen Stephens;Topic: Experiences as a diplomat

Find upcoming events at the Josef Korbel School at: http://bit.ly/korbel-events

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LeadinLeadingg Global Thinkers Global ThinkersAssoc. Professor Erica Chenoweth Named one of Foreign Policy’s Leading Global Thinkers of 2013

Associate professor Erica Chenoweth was named to Foreign Policy magazine’s 2013 Leading Global Th inkers list. Th e editors of the magazine indicated that Chenoweth received this honor, “For proving Ghandi right.” Th ey further explain, “She uses her data to show that nonviolent campaigns over the last century were twice as likely to succeed as violent ones. She also uses them to make arguments about current events: for instance, why US strikes on Syria aren’t wise and why Egypt’s pro-government sit-ins over the summer were unlikely to work.”

Chenoweth invited several of her fellow Leading Global Th inkers from around the globe for a day of engaging conversations. On March 6, 2014, the Josef Korbel School and the Sié Chéou-Kang Center for International Security & Diplomacy hosted Transformational Voices: An Aft ernoon with Leading Global Th inkers at Denver’s Cable Center. In addition to Chenoweth, participants included:• Economists Th omas Herndon

and Michael Ash• Pakistani women’s rights activist

Saba Ismail• Climate scientist Stephanie

Herring• Documentary fi lm maker Steve

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Transformational Voices: An Afternoon with Leading Global Thinkers

Photos by Michael Furmanmfurmanphotography.com

Beginning at a young age, Ambassador Cindy Courville was guided by her passion to give back to her community—at home and on the global stage.

“My parents, Earnest and Mary Courville, instilled in me that you have to make a contribution,” she explains.

As a seventh grader, Courville attended NAACP meetings with her parents. While listening at those gatherings she realized she had the responsibility to try to make the world a more equitable place and open doors for others.

So, when her parents gave her the choice of whether or not to attend a newly integrated school, she chose to become one of the fi rst African American students to attend the junior high in Opelousas, Louisiana.

Guided by PassionGuided by PassionAmbassador Cindy Courville (MA 1980, PhD 1988)

Alumni Profi le

Photos Courtesy of Ambassador Cindy Courville

“We started off with maybe 20 or 30 [African American] kids that eighth grade year,” says Courville. Th ese children experienced the racial prejudice of the Jim Crow South fi rsthand and many of them left the school. “Aft er about the fi rst month of school, our parents had to drive us because it was not safe on the bus. People spat on you, put gum in your hair. Many of the other students didn’t talk to us so there was a sense of isolation. We were segregated in the sense that only one African American student was in each class except for PE. Th ere were two of us.” Courville adds, “By the end of the year, there were about six of us who stayed.”

Despite the negativity she experienced, Courville feels that she learned valuable lessons. “It taught me how to persevere and it taught me how to deal with adversity.”

Courville’s experiences also sparked a passion for issues like political repression and state violence. Her interest in these topics led her to the Josef Korbel School of International Studies (known at that time as the Graduate School of International Studies). Courville explains, “When in 1976 or so, it was time to make a decision about whether or not I was going to go on for a PhD, I saw a fl yer for the University of Denver’s Graduate School of International Studies at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette.” Courville continues, “My history professor said, ‘You need to apply.’ I was accepted and chose to attend because

there I would have the opportunity to look at the subject matter I was most interested in.”

In addition to exploring her interests, Courville gained valuable skills at the Josef Korbel School that she has drawn from throughout her career. “Th ere I refi ned my analytical skills. I use those skills every day.” She adds, “Th e fl exibility that I think the program provided, intellectual fl exibility and diversity of subject matters, has prepared me to be able

to shift gears very quickly because at the end of the day, even if you are not the expert on the Middle East, it’s having those fundamental, ideological understandings of the key concepts in international relations as well as analytical and writing skills which allow me to move from one region of the world or from one functional issue to the next.”

Equally as benefi cial, Courville also formed lasting relationships while at DU. She points to two faculty members who had a particularly profound impact and are still with the School today. “Dr. Tom Rowe gave me the insight into the humanitarian needs of the world and international organizations which have certainly prepared me for interfacing and working as the fi rst ambassador to the African Union.” She adds, “Dr. Karen Feste, who was a mentor and later became a friend, also paved the way in showing how a woman operates in academia and how you move onto the public sector.”

Like the students who attend the School today, Courville developed a tight bond with the members of her MA and PhD cohorts. “Condoleezza Rice is one of the fi rst people who welcomed me to the University. I had the pleasure of meeting her and her parents who were warm and wonderful and sharp people. Ahmed Samatar was a key person in my life. Stanley James and Bessie House—to name a couple more. We are still very close knit today. We may not see each other on a regular basis but when we enter a room, the conversation has never ended and we just move on from there. And I know those are all individuals who I could still count on today.”

“Cindy’s family, like mine, taught her that she could excel and overcome any challenges she encountered,” said Dr. Condoleezza Rice. “I always knew she would go on to accomplish great things and she would eventually serve our country with honor and distinction. She didn’t let us down and these many

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years later, I’m still proud to call her, friend.”

Since leaving the Josef Korbel School, Courville has enjoyed a successful career in academia as a member of the political science faculty at Hanover College in Indiana and Occidental College in

Los Angeles, and in varying roles with the United States Government. While some may see these two sectors as worlds apart, Courville says they complement one another. “In the public sector, those same research skills, conceptual skills, and writing skills transferred. First as a political military analyst, I was doing research

that was going to have a direct impact from theory to practice. Th e paper I wrote today was going to inform a policy decision tomorrow. Th en transitioning to the White House as special assistant to the president, at that point, you are formulating policy. Th ose same concepts now have to be

translated into a real world situation that aff ects the direction that a nation state is going to take.”

Aft er her time as special assistant to President George W. Bush, Courville had the opportunity to implement policy and was appointed the fi rst Ambassador to the African Union. She feels that her biggest success in this role was helping to build a better relationship with the African continent. “We [the US] were the fi rst to recognize the African Union. And we still are, if I’m not mistaken, the only country who has a dedicated ambassador,” she explains.

Today, Courville is a faculty member at the National Intelligence University located in Washington, DC where, as she says, she is teaching “military and civilian professionals to go out in the world to take their place at the table of intelligence and policy making and implementation.”

Like many of the impressive alumni who once walked the halls of the Josef Korbel School over the past fi ve decades, Courville has transformed her passion to purpose and has helped leave the Korbel footprint around the globe. She says, “It is with great pride that I can say that I am a student of the Korbel School.” We are proud of what she and many of our other alumni have accomplished and are honored to name Courville a Golden Alumna.

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Golden AlumniIn recognition of the Josef Korbel School’s 50th anniversary we asked members of the Korbel Community to nominate an alumna/us who has made a signifi cant global impact as a golden alumna/alumnus. Aft er receiving nominations from alumni, students, faculty and staff , we have selected:• Robert Perito (BA 1964)• Gen. George Casey (Ret.)

(MA 1980)• Ambassador Cindy Courville

(MA 1980, PhD 1988)• Pierre Izard (MA 1996)• Gretchen Peters (MA 2012)

Watch the Golden Alumni on our 50th Anniversary video online at:http://www.du.edu/korbel/about/index.html

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An Event of Historic MagnitudeAn Event of Historic MagnitudeCenter for Middle East Studies Hosts Webcast with Iran’s Foreign Minister

On Feb. 18, 2014, the Center for Middle East Studies at the Josef Korbel School of International Studies held an event of historic magnitude—a conversation (via live webcast) with Dr. Mohammad Javad Zarif (MA ‘84, PhD ‘88), the Minister of Foreign Aff airs for the Islamic Republic of Iran and a Josef Korbel School alumnus.

Th e conversation was moderated by the School’s dean, Ambassador Christopher Hill, and was attended by over 200 students, faculty and

community members. Questions for Zarif were selected from previously-written audience submissions. Topics of discussion ranged from the serious—such as Iranian-US relations; the crisis in Syria; internal human rights issues in Iran; and Iranian-Israeli relations—to the lighthearted, including Minister Zarif ’s favorite classes while at the University.

Th e live discussion came shortly aft er the fi rst day of P5+1 negotiations in Vienna over Iran’s nuclear program.

Prior to assuming his current post in August 2013, Dr. Zarif served as Iran’s Ambassador to the United Nations (2002-2007) and Iran’s Deputy Minister of Foreign Aff airs (1992-2002).

Video of the webcast can be found online at:

http://bit.ly/korbel-zarif-video

Fast FactCurrently, two Josef Korbel School alumni serve as their countries’ foreign minister. In addition to Dr. Mohammad Javad Zarif, the current Chilean foreign minister, Heraldo Muñoz (MA ‘76, PhD ‘79) (pictured here shaking US Secretary of State John Kerry’s hand), is a proud Josef Korbel School alumnus.

Courtesy of the US State Department

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A Golden CelebrationA Golden CelebrationKorbel Dinner 50th Anniversary CelebrationOn Sept. 22, the Korbel community gathered at the Sheraton Denver Downtown to celebrate the Josef Korbel School’s golden anniversary and to honor three individuals who embody the School’s mission and vision.

At the Dinner, the audience enjoyed an on-stage conversation between Ambassador Christopher R. Hill, dean of the Josef Korbel School, and noteworthy alumna of the School, Dr. Condoleezza Rice (BA ‘74, PhD ‘81). Topics discussed included the NFL, Iraq, Russia, immigration and much more. Speaking about the School, Rice said, “Th e Korbel School has trained people who matter. You have a great faculty and a tradition of students who will go on to matter.”

A highpoint of the evening was the presentation of the annual Korbel Dinner awards to three individuals who have signifi cantly impacted Colorado and the world.

Hill presented local philanthropists Anna and John J. Sie with the Josef Korbel Humanitarian Award for their generous philanthropic work. Hill explained, “Anna and John are truly pillars of the community. Th ey have used their acumen and their passion in ways that have benefi ted

many people and organizations here in Colorado and around the globe.”

“We believe that robust relations amongst nations, based on mutual respect, mutual understanding, and mutual trust is the cornerstone for world peace and prosperity,” said Mr. Sie on his and Mrs. Sie’s behalf. “Th e Korbel School, under the leadership of Dean Christopher Hill, is the full embodiment of that.”

Hill also presented Jeff rey R. Tarr, CEO and president of Longmont, Colo.-based DigitalGlobe, with the University of Denver International Bridge Builders award for his work building ties between Colorado and the international community. “Under Jeff rey Tarr’s leadership, DigitalGlobe’s products and services serve as a vital resource for humanitarian aid providers, public safety organizations and others in making critical decisions,” said Hill.

“DigitalGlobe is honored to participate in the Korbel School’s 50th anniversary celebration. We extend our appreciation for the School’s commitment to educating future leaders dedicated to foreign service, international commerce, and world peace and security,” said Tarr.

Photos by FocusTree Photography

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On Dec. 1, 2014, the Josef Korbel School celebrated its 50th anniversary in Washington, DC at a special reception for over 200 alumni and friends.

Special guests at the reception included Josef Korbel’s children,

Katherine Silva, John Korbel and 64th US Secretary of State Madeleine Korbel Albright.

Th e highlight of the evening was an onstage conversation between Albright and Dean Christopher Hill followed by audience Q&A.

Two recent graduates of the Josef Korbel School have moved on to Washington, DC and Germany, but take with them the wealth of experience they gained through the Marc Nathanson Fellowship program. Th e fellowship is awarded each year to high-achieving second-year students at the Josef Korbel School.

Rachel Arnold and Elizabeth Caruth were awarded the 2013/2014 Nathanson Fellowship. Through the program, Arnold and Caruth worked with the Aspen Institute to prepare the annual Dialogue on Diplomacy and Technology (ADDTech) event held in Aspen and managed the logistics for other events at the Josef Korbel School.

Th e Aspen Institutes

ADDTech convenes leaders from the sometimes disparate worlds of diplomacy and technology to address how new technological tools can be better used for public or citizen diplomacy around the world. Past speakers at the conferences include 64th US Secretary of State Madeleine Albright and executives from Facebook and Google.

“I was excited about the fellowship because it gave me a unique opportunity to research how the State Department conducts public diplomacy,” Arnold said. “Th e Aspen event was about bringing together some of the people working on topics related to public diplomacy and starting a conversation about what public diplomacy should look like.”

Meet the 2013-2014 Marc Nathanson FellowsMeet the 2013-2014 Marc Nathanson Fellows

Photos by ES Video Productionswww.esvideoproductions.com

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Caruth (fi rst person, second row) and Arnold (second person, second row) with attendees at the 2014 ADDTech

Photo Courtesy of the Aspen Institute

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Building BridgesBuilding BridgesProfessor Zhao & the Center for China-US Cooperation

Professor Suisheng (Sam) Zhao is in a unique position to help improve US-Chinese relations. Th at’s because not many people have lived for

30 years in China, and equally as many in the United States, as he has.

“I have a dream that China and the US can avoid the so-called Th ucydides trap with the established great power and the emerging power colliding inexorably.” Professor Zhao always starts his lectures on US-China relations with this statement.

“So a person like myself is so valuable for both sides, because I understand both sides so well,” said Zhao, the director of the Center for China-US Cooperation. “And could be a true bridge to help both the China side and the US side to understand each other.”

Zhao, who joined the center and the Josef Korbel School of International Studies in 2001, was born in China in 1954 and moved around the country throughout his childhood. He was among some of the fi rst university students in China to enter the academic world following the conclusion of the Cultural Revolution in the 1970s, which had resulted in the closure of most educational institutions across the country for nearly a decade.

Aft er earning his master degree in economics at Peking University, Zhao taught international economics and worked in the Chinese government’s Ministry of Finance to deal with the World Bank aft er China obtained its membership in 1980. However, China’s education system was still recovering following the aft ermath of the revolution, and Zhao consequently decided to complete his education in the United States.

In 1985, Zhao resumed his academic career as a graduate student, but rather than assisting the World Bank with loans for his native country, Zhao now found himself cleaning and waiting tables in order to fi nance his tuition in the United States. In this way, Zhao worked his way up in much the same fashion as he had earlier in China, eventually attaining another master degree, this time in sociology from the University of Missouri, and

eventually a PhD in political science from the University of California-San Diego. Yet instead of returning to China, Zhao decided to remain in the US in order to pursue his career and academic ambitions.

“I’m a really fortunate person to have this opportunity to live two lives, in the US and in China,” Zhao said.

Ultimately, Zhao found himself at the University of Denver, where he has been teaching and working for more than 12 years – longer than he has spent in any other place, and for good reason, too. Since 1992, Zhao has edited the Journal of Contemporary China, which was ranked the number one China studies journal in 2014 based on its impact factor (citation rate) by the news agency Th omson Reuters. Having started the

Above: Professor Zhao with President Jimmy Carter at the Carter Center Forum on US-China Relations

Next Page: (Bottom Left) Professor Zhao speaks with students at Shanghai Ocean University

(Bottom Right) Professor Zhao with Dean Hill and Boeing CEO W. James McNerney, Jr.—a speaker with the Centers 2013 Jackson/Ho China Forum

(Center) Professor Zhao with His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama

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journal when he was a graduate student in the US, Zhao has watched it climb in rankings over the years since arriving in Denver, thanks in no small part, he said, to the unending encouragement he has received from the University.

“At DU, there is a right academic and supportive environment to make me successful as a professor and scholar, and as an editor of the journal,” Zhao said.

“With the leadership of the University and School, and also such a high caliber of faculty members and high quality of staff members, it all makes this such a wonderful place to work in.”

Th e University has also enabled Zhao to now capitalize on his understanding of both countries and work to dispel the misperceptions harbored by their respective populations about each other. Th rough the advancement of his journal, which is published six times a year now, and the continual hosting of symposia and visiting scholars from around the United States and China by the Center for China-US Cooperation, Zhao aims to further educate the public and policymakers as to how the two nations can work together instead of wrangle and confront each other.

“China will have a transition, but it’s own way,” he said. “China has its own path of modernization.”

“But we can work with China.”

At the same time, Zhao makes many trips to China each year giving lectures and trying to combat the perception among Chinese that the US wants to stem China’s rise to power.

“So that’s the problem I see very oft en,” he said. “To try to overcome those barriers and fi nd prudent policies.”

Although achieving all of this will require much time and work, Zhao said he still considers himself fortunate to do what he describes as his “hobby,” and would even do it if he weren’t paid.

“DU is such a good university, Korbel is such a good school, and running the China center here is such a big privilege for me,” he said.

“I’m doing everything with my whole heart, because that’s what I want to do.”

Learn more about the Center for China-US Cooperation at http://bit.ly/korbel-china-ctr

By Brent Forgues, MA Candidate

Edited by Professor Zhao, the Journal of Contemporary China (JCC) is the only English-language journal edited in North America that provides exclusive information about contemporary Chinese affairs for scholars, businessmen and government policy-makers.

The JCC publishes peer-reviewed articles of theoretical and policy research and research notes, as well as book reviews. The journal’s fi elds of interest include economics, political science, law, culture, literature, business, history, international relations, sociology and other social sciences and humanities. Learn more at http://bit.ly/korbel-jcc

Photos Courtesy of Professor Suisheng Zhao

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Center for Middle East Studies Awarded a Centennial Grant

Th e Center for Middle East Studies received a $294,200 Centennial Grant from the Carnegie Corporation of New York. Th is grant provides fellowships to US universities in support of social scientists from the Arab region.

To date, the Center has welcomed two visiting scholars. Th e fi rst, Mohamad Hamas Elmasry (pictured here), is a mass communication scholar currently focusing on Arab and Egyptian news media. Th e research interests of the second scholar, Abdullah Al-Arian, include the history of modern Egypt, the history of US foreign policy toward the Middle East, Islamic law, and Islamic social movements.

Sié Center Awarded $1 Million Grant to Bridge the Gap

Th e Sié Chéou-Kang Center for International Security and Diplomacy was awarded a $1 million, two-year grant from the Carnegie Corporation of New York. Th e grant is toward a “Bridging the Academic-Policy Gap” program that will generate and disseminate policy-relevant research on pressing global issues.

Academics and policy leaders alike oft en imagine that the only serious, eff ective action against global crises

is violent action. With the support of the Carnegie Corporation, researchers at the Sié Center aim to demonstrate the conditions under which nonviolent strategies are eff ective, thereby building a more robust repertoire of strategies on which policymakers can draw to prevent, contain, and respond to violence such as the current confl icts in Syria and Ukraine.

As part of the grant, the Sié Center currently has three post-doctoral fellows who will be in residence for a two-year term, Oct. 2014-Sept. 2016. With Sié Center faculty and policy community mentors, fellows conduct their own research and contribute to a collaborative research eff ort on nonviolent strategies in violent confl icts designed to inform (and be informed by) contemporary policy concerns and strategies. Th ey are:

• Cassy Dorff - PhD candidate in the Political Science Department at Duke University

• Devin Finn - PhD candidate in the Department of Government at Georgetown University

• Steven T. Zech - PhD candidate in the Department of Political Science at the University of Washington

Pardee Center Awarded $1.05 Million Dept. of Defense Grant

Th e Frederick S. Pardee Center for International Futures has been selected to receive a $1.05 million research grant as part of the Department of Defense’s Minerva Initiative. Th e awarded project, “Taking Development (Im)Balance Seriously: Using New Approaches to Measure and Model State Fragility,” will develop a new, more comprehensive index for measuring and monitoring state fragility in the future.

Around the SchoolAround the School

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Associate Professor Erica Chenoweth• Was a Featured Panelist, World

Summit of Nobel Peace Laureates, Warsaw, Poland, Oct. 2013

• Identifi ed as a Leading Global Th inker, Foreign Policy Magazine’s 100 Leading Global Th inkers of 2013

• Received Karl Deutsch Award, International Studies Association, 2014

• Received Outstanding Achievement in International Studies (OAIS) Blogging Award for Political Violence @ a Glance, Best Group Blog, 2014

• Received Special Achievement Award, University of Dayton Alumni Association, 2014

Professor Micheline Ishay• Took part in a high level meeting

of experts concerning the future of human rights and the international criminal justice system: Global

Issues and Th eir Impact on the Future of Human Rights and International Criminal Justice

Visiting Associate Professor Heather Roff• Was an invited expert in a meeting

at the United Nations’ Convention on Conventional Weapons where she spoke about the operational considerations and challenges with lethal autonomous weapons systems

• Partook in an invited workshop at the International Committee of the Red Cross headquarters on the moral and legal challenges of cyberwarfare, and moderated a panel about cyber war and humanitarian challenges

Professor Tim Sisk• Was named as chair of the

University of Denver’s Institutional Review Board for the Protection of Human Subjects

Professor Joseph Szyliowicz • A group of Turkish scholars are

updating his dissertation: Political Change in Rural Turkey

Adjunct Professor Peter Van Arsdale• Recognized by the Mayor of Lyons,

Colorado, for his work on data analysis following the devastating fl ood of Sept. 2013

• Recognized by the American Anthropological Association for his “fi ve-star article” entitled “Imagining Ethiopia,” published in Anthropology News. Publication occurred Aug. 2014

Pardee Center Associate Director Jonathan D. Moyer and Director Barry B. Hughes are the principal investigators on this project. Other co-investigators from the Josef Korbel School include faculty members Erica Chenoweth, Cullen Hendrix, Oliver Kaplan, and Timothy Sisk. Th is will be the second Minerva grant awarded to both Chenoweth and Hendrix.

The Humanitarian Assistance Program Launches the Humanitarian Assistance Applied Research Group

Th e Josef Korbel School’s Humanitarian Assistance Program launched the Humanitarian Assistance Applied Research Group. Th rough HAARG students will gain hands-on experience, while providing needed services to humanitarian organizations.

“Some humanitarian agencies have signifi cant research and evaluation needs that cannot be fulfi lled internally due to staffi ng and other resource and capacity challenges,” explains Courtney Welton-Mitchell, HAARG director. “Th e students who participate in HAARG will fi ll these gaps as research assistants—working remotely from the DU campus. Plus, they gain invaluable real world experience and build useful connections with infl uential people in humanitarian organizations.”

Faculty Notes

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Welcome to the Korbel School Community

Assistant Professor Karin Wedig• PhD, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London• MPhil, University of Cambridge• BSc, London School of Economics and Political SciencesWedig’s research interests include: agricultural development and rural labour relations; social and solidarity economy in the context of international value chains; education and training reform, labour market regulation and employment promotion; industrialisation and labour informalisation in the context of globalisation; development policy and instruments of international aid.

Assistant Professor Oliver Kaplan• PhD, Stanford University• BA, University of California, San DiegoKaplan’s research interests include: civil war, human rights, counterinsurgency, foreign development assistance, drug-traffi cking issues, civilian protection, social movements, Latin America and Colombia.

Kaplan is affi liated with the Sié Chéou-Kang Center for International Security and Diplomacy and is the Associate Director of the Human Traffi cking Center

Assistant Professor Cullen Hendrix• PhD, University of California, San Diego• MA, University of California, San Diego• BA, Kalamazoo CollegeHendrix’s primary research focus is in modeling contentious politics – ranging from urban protest to armed confl ict – as the outcome of interactions between domestic political institutions, global markets and advocacy networks, and environmental degradation and climatic change.

He is co-author of the recently published book Confronting the Curse: Th e Economics and Geopolitics of Natural Resource Governance. He and co-author Marcus Noland study several examples of how countries have tapped mineral and other wealth only to weaken their domestic institutions and democratic governance. All too oft en, such actions lead to corruption, the enriching of elites, and even devastating violence and war.

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As a pioneer in global public opinion research, Helen Crossley (MA ’48) has traveled the world — including overseas assignments in postwar Germany and South Korea.

But her fi rst trip abroad, in 1937, came about entirely by accident. “Th e older sister of a friend of mine had run off with a German baron, and her mother went to rescue her. I was invited along to keep my friend company,” Crossley said.

“It gave me a chance at the age of 15 to see Hitler’s Europe. I was right there watching it, seeing the Hitlerjugend, the swastikas. Th e trip opened my eyes to the rest of the world, so that aft er the war, I picked up my bags and got involved internationally from there on.”

Crossley spent much of her career working for the United States Information Agency at the State Department, and was one of the original organizers of the agency’s cross-cultural studies of the American image abroad. She also was instrumental in establishing the World Association of Public Opinion Research (WAPOR) and served as its fi rst female president.

Her gift establishing the Crossley Center for Public Opinion Research at the Korbel School, which includes support for graduate coursework and fellowships, is the capstone of a lifelong eff ort to promote the use of public opinion research in international aff airs.

“I’ve been very much impressed with the growth of the Korbel School and its faculty, and I’m appreciative of what they’ve done in picking up on the whole public opinion area,” Crossley said. “It’s an important fi eld that should get particular attention.” She was especially gratifi ed to learn that two papers originating at the

Crossley Center were presented at the international WAPOR conference in Nice, France this fall.

Her gift brings public opinion studies back to DU following a long hiatus. As a graduate student who came to Denver aft er earning her BA at Radcliff e College (now merged with Harvard), Crossley worked with Professor Don Cahalan, head of the Opinion Research Center then housed at DU. Th ey conducted the groundbreaking Denver Community Survey, which resulted in signifi cant fi ndings on the validity of survey responses.

Crossley’s gift to the Korbel School also honors her father, Archibald, who established the fi rst scientifi c polling methods

with his contemporaries George Gallup and Elmo Roper. “I know he would be proud of this contribution toward educating future public opinion leaders,” said Floyd Ciruli, director of the Crossley Center.

Now 93 and living in Princeton, N.J., Crossley still keeps up with world events and is an avid reader. She recently fi nished Madeleine Albright’s Prague Winter—a gift from the Korbel School—which recounts the Nazi takeover of Czechoslovakia in 1938. For Crossley, the book brought strong memories of her own experience as an impressionable 15-year-old in Nazi Germany.

“It was a short trip,” she said, “but it changed my life.”

By Sara Piccini Piccini is a freelance writer based in Virginia

She is also the niece to Helen Crossley

Helen Crossley: Public Opinion Research PioneerEstablishes the Crossley Center for Public Opinion Research

“I was right there watching it, seeing the Hitlerjugend, the swastikas. The trip opened my eyes to the rest of the world, so that after the war, I picked up my bags and got involved internationally from there on

Learn more about the Crossley Center at http://www.du.edu/korbel/crossleycenter

Photo Courtesy of: T. Kevin Birchwww.kevinbirchphoto.com

Philanthropist Profi le

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Ben Briese is a prime example of the high caliber student selected for the Sié Fellowship, a two-year, full-tuition scholarship to the Josef Korbel School awarded each year to ten outstanding master’s degree-seeking students. Briese brings to the Josef Korbel School and the Sié Chéou-Kang Center a wealth of experience and knowledge, enriching the intellectual enterprise of the School and Center.

Briese is an MA candidate in the School’s International Security program. He earned a BA summa cum laude from Saint John’s University in Minnesota. While at St. John’s, Briese nurtured his interest in international aff airs through his coursework and by participating in a study abroad program in Nepal. While overseas, he completed his undergraduate thesis on the socio-economic impacts of a road development project in the Himalayas.

Aft er leaving St. John’s, Briese became interested in confl ict and post-confl ict societies. He completed an internship with the UN Development Programme in Bosnia-Herzegovina and volunteered for 10 months with the Benedictine Volunteer Corps in Israel. Briese explains, “In Israel, I lived and worked with a group of Benedictine monks on a grass-roots peace-building program which brought together Israelis and Palestinians to work through a process of dialogue and mutual understanding.”

In 2011 Briese landed a position with the France-based non-governmental organization Agency for Technical Cooperation and Development (ACTED). He describes the organization as “an international NGO that implements a wide variety of humanitarian aid programs such as the provision of water, sanitation and shelter for refugee populations.” During his fi rst six months with the organization he worked at the Middle East regional offi ce in Jordan liaising with donor institutions and developing new project proposals. Th en, he worked a year in war-torn Iraq doing monitoring and evaluation. “Our team worked throughout the country in fi ve diff erent provinces,” he says. “We implemented programs to build shelters for internally-displaced people (IDPs) in Baghdad, vocational training projects in rural areas, and emergency aid to Syrian refugees fl eeing into northern Iraq.”

Briese ended his tenure with ACTED in embattled Syria. “We were providing basic humanitarian assistance to internally displaced people in Syria who could not cross the border into Turkey,” he explains. “I was part of a small assessment team which would go into new IDP settlements in Syria and assess the needs there in terms of water, food, shelter, and medicine. Th en, using GIS [geographic information system] information we collected and satellite images, we would create maps with our needs-assessments integrated and layered on top. Th is

To the Korbel School by way of the Middle EastBen Briese

Student Profi le

Photos Courtesy of Ben Briese

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provided a really useful tool for other humanitarian organizations; it allowed them to understand where the greatest unmet needs were and allowed them to coordinate with each other to provide aid quickly while avoiding duplication.”

While working with ACTED—especially in Iraq and Syria—Briese says that “a Pandora’s Box of questions” opened. He adds, “I realized that humanitarian aid cannot address underlying problems. It’s basically a band-aid in these situations. My experiences in Bosnia, Iraq and Syria challenged me with a series of basic questions. How can societies transform from peaceful coexistence to brutal violence in such a short period of time? How should the international community respond? What should be the respective responsibilities of the UN and the US in such situations?”

Th ese questions prompted Briese to pursue a graduate degree and today, he’s searching for answers to these questions at the Josef Korbel School as a MA candidate in the International Security program “I feel like the Josef Korbel School is a rising program in international aff airs,” he says. “Korbel is a great place to pursue unique and interdisciplinary academic pursuits.”

At the School, Briese is a Sié Fellow working with Dr. Deborah Avant’s Private Security Monitor research project. Briese, like the other Sié fellows, plays an important role in the Center’s research projects and has the opportunity to work alongside its expert faculty members. “Dr. Avant is one of the leaders in the fi eld of private security research and she’s also involved us in wider conversations taking place in the policy community.”

“Ben has been a valuable member of the student team currently mapping the role of private security throughout the world,” said Deborah Avant, professor and director of the Sié Chéou-Kang Center. “He is not only plowing through one of the most tumultuous regions (the Middle East) but also made important methodological suggestions to make the project more effi cient. Ben is a good example of the benefi ts of having smart and serious students working on Sié Center Research.”

Th e Private Security Monitor is a research project that promotes access to information concerning the world-wide use and regulation of private military and security services. “We are currently mapping where private security contractors work throughout the world, what types of activities they’re involved in as well as the various events and incidents which have been associated with private security contractors,” says Briese. “Th is will be the fi rst comprehensive global picture of where private security companies are working and what they are doing. It’s quite an ambitious project and there’s a lot of information to sift through, but the goal is to create a database which will enable future research of the private security sector.”

Recently, Briese was awarded the competitive Rosenthal Fellowship. Th e Rosenthal Fellowship provides graduate students in international aff airs the opportunity to spend a summer in Washington, DC working on foreign aff airs issues at a US federal government agency or department. Th rough the Fellowship he will work with Congressman Brad Sherman (D-CA). Sherman is a member of the House Committee on Foreign Aff airs and serves as the senior Democrat on the Subcommittee on International Terrorism, Nonproliferation and Trade.

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Briese says, “I’ll be working with the Congressman’s offi ce specifi cally on issues related to the Committee on Foreign Aff airs including preparing background documents and policy briefs.”

In 2015, Briese will complete his MA and will surely begin a fruitful career. He does not have a specifi c career track in mind, but is exploring the many options that lie before him. “Working in the State Department has always been a long term interest of mine. But during my time at the Korbel School, I’ve learned that there are a lot of possible career paths that interest me. I’m looking forward to exploring a lot of diff erent avenues.”

New Program Launched in 2014

Th is year the Josef Korbel School launched Korbel in Geneva, a study abroad program off ered in conjunction with the Graduate Institute of International Development Studies.

For the inaugural group, 10 current students were selected for the program. Each of the students spent 6 months (June - December) in Geneva, Switzerland. Th ere, they completed 2 graduate level courses at the Graduate Institute and an internship with a Geneva-based organization.

Letters from Geneva

From Jordan Reif: I am currently interning in the Program Development & Implementation unit of the HIV & Global Hepatitis department at the World Health Organization headquarters. My experience here has shown

me how much goes on behind the scenes to ensure that HIV programs worldwide are successful. I work as a Communications Intern, meaning that I focus on making sure that all of the HIV and Hepatitis

information produced by WHO is easily accessible to those who need it, including governments, donors, patients, scientists, and the general public. Th is internship has helped me apply what I have learned in my Development and Global Health classes in a real-world setting in an organization that is considered one of the leading actors in the public health sphere. Th is experience has given me amazing insight into the amount of detail and planning that goes into activities developed at the headquarters level, and how the work done in Geneva impacts people on the ground.

Outside of my classes at the Graduate Institute, I am also participating in a program called Collaborate for Social Impact. Th is program teams up with local organizations to come up with innovative ideas to solve some of the world’s problems. My team was given a challenge by UNFPA to come up with a project that will link pregnant women in rural Sudan with emergency transportation. We are designing a project centered around the use of electric bicycle ambulances and text messaging soft ware that can help to map their locations. We will present our idea to UNFPA on December 1, and if chosen as the most innovative idea, we will receive mentoring and

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workshops to further elaborate on the project.

From Aft on Tyler: Spending six months living and working in Geneva is an excellent next step in fulfi lling my personal and career goals. As a speaker of French, and having lived and worked in France before I came to DU, I was thrilled to learn of the opportunity to return to Europe

via the Korbel in Geneva program. At the Josef Korbel School, I am pursuing a degree in International Studies, with concentrations in Europe and Environmental Policy. Here in Geneva, I was very fortunate to be off ered an internship with the United Nations in the Environment Division of the Economic Commission for Europe; a perfect match for my studies and interests!

I am so grateful to have this experience, and I am thoroughly enjoying my work with the UN. Th e combination of classes, the internship, and navigating life in Geneva is a thrilling challenge. With the chance to travel as well, both in Switzerland and elsewhere in Europe, this really is an absolutely wonderful experience. I look forward to the opportunities and places where these six months might wind up leading me aft er graduation!

In addition to Reif and Tyler, the following students took part in the program:• Camden Bowman worked for the International

Committee of the Red Cross’ Healthcare in Danger campaign.

• Jimmie Braley interned in the Health in Detention Unit at the International Committee of the Red Cross.

• Grace Brown worked in the Economic Security Unit of the International Committee for the Red Cross.

• Kate Castenson worked with the International Committee of the Red Cross in their Water and Habitat Unit

• Paul Christiansen interned with the Mental Health Programme of the World Health Organization.

• Christopher Gum worked at the Offi ce of the US Trade Representative-Geneva/US Permanent Mission to the World Trade Organization, working directly with Michael Punke, US Ambassador and Permanent Representative to the World Trade Organization.

• Kristi Matsunaka interned in the Private Security Governance division of the Geneva Centre for the Democratic Control of Armed Forces (DCAF)

• Nicole Stauch worked with the International Committee of the Red Cross in the Security and Stress Unit

Photos Courtesy of Afton Tyler and Jordan Rief

to the Josef Korbel School students awarded prestigious fellowships during the 2013-2014 academic year.

Boren FellowshipChad Bringhurst; Allen Grouse; Shela RiveraKevin Neighbors

Critical Language ScholarshipChristian Allen; Michael Buckley; William MateoKevin Neighbors; Porscha Stiger

Emerging Market Development Adviser ProgramW. Ryan Talmage; Autumn Gorman

Fulbright ScholarshipChristian Allen; Elizabeth Caruth; Amanda Peskin

Harold Rosenthal FellowBenjamin Briese

Presidential Management Fellows ProgramSonny Nathan Libero; Julie Messersmith

Grameen Foundation FellowshipLaura Burns

USAID/Global Health FellowKendra Allen

Laihua Scholarship From the Chinese Ministry of EducationStephanie Elizabeth Nelson

Japan Travel Program for US Future LeadersRebecca Hostetler

Congratulations . . .

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Please describe the undergraduate international studies (INTS) program.Th e INTS program here is very open. It gives you such a broad base to really dive in and tailor your degree to your own interests. More than anything else, INTS has exposed me to a lot of diff erent interesting ideas, concepts and issues that we [as a country] face. Th e experience I’ve had at Korbel has really inspired me to go and work on some of these issues and try and face some of these problems.

Is there one INTS class that sticks out in your mind?I’ve taken many phenomenal and challenging classes in the program. One that I always think about is the class I took with Dean Hill. It was spring of 2012. Th ere were 75 graduates and 25 undergraduates in the class and I was lucky enough to get one of the undergraduate spots. Th e class was about diplomacy – not just broadly but we also learned about some the techniques diplomats use when they are negotiating. We did this really cool simulation and that was a class that really opened my eyes to the type of work diplomats do and the types of challenges they might face. Th e following summer I did an internship with the State Department. I know I wouldn’t have been interested in doing it before I took that class.

Please tell us more about the internship.Th e internship was with the Bureau of International Information Programs in the Offi ce of Innovative Engagement. Th at offi ce focuses mostly on digital media and the more eff ective use of social and digital media in reaching foreign audiences. I worked on a few projects there and reports on social media practices. I got to do some outreach with foreign embassies in DC and met with some of their social media teams. It was a really valuable internship.

While I was in DC I also completed a fellowship for State Department interns called the Council for American Ambassadors Fellowship. Th rough this program, I was set up with a former ambassador as a mentor. I worked with G. Philip Hughes. He had been the ambassador to Barbados in the early 90’s and did a lot of work with the Reagan

administration. Sitting down with him and picking his brain about what it was like to be ambassador was a phenomenal experience.

You mentioned that you are able to tailor your degree to your own interests. What areas are you interested in?I am interested in democratization and China. I just turned in my thesis which was on the politics of Singapore which is a one party state that in some ways is similar to China.

My interest in China stems from my fi rst year in college when I learned about ancient writings from the region, something I hadn’t really been exposed to before that. I really didn’t know much about the cultures of that region – from there I just learned more and more about the region and specifi cally China. What I fi nd most interesting is the rapid level of change in the past 20 or 30 or even 10 years frankly. Being able to watch the country really move is defi nitely interesting.

So, when I studied abroad I chose China. I was in Beijing at the China Studies Institute, which is located at Peking University and they helped arrange an internship at an English language magazine that’s about Chinese culture and Chinese language. It’s called Th e World of Chinese. I had the opportunity to write interesting pieces, some of which were included in the print magazine. I got to

Q&A with INTS UndergraduateMeet Christian Allen


report on an inaugural triathlon that Beijing was hosting and interviewed athletes from around the world.

I’m going back there [China] this summer and to Taiwan.

What will you do While you are in China?I’m graduating this June [June 2014] and I am going to China to do more language study as part of the State Department’s Critical Language Scholarship Program. I will be there for 2 months and I recently found out that I also received a Fulbright scholarship for Taiwan. So, aft er China I will be going to Taiwan as part of the Fulbright English Teaching Assistantship Program.

Nathanson Fellows are also responsible for the planning and logistics of the Public Diplomacy Speaker Series. Th is annual series of events is a partnership with the Sié Chéou-Kang Center through which the School welcomes prominent policy leaders from around the world to speak with students.

“It defi nitely supplemented my education,” Caruth said. “I got a lot of practical experience, both with the research and the event planning. Also, just going to listen to all those speakers was great, along with the fact that I was so involved and I was able to refl ect on how

those discussions were mirrored in the classes that I had taken. Plus, aft er completing the fellowship, I was able to speak directly to how I have a background in public diplomacy.”

Caruth and Arnold graduated in June 2014. Arnold now works at an international advocacy organization. Caruth

received a Fulbright scholarship and currently teaches English at a high school in Germany.

By Philip Gassert, MA Candidate

Nathanson Fellows Cont.

Caruth & Arnold with Ambassador Kathleen Stephens

The Nathanson Fellowship was established thanks to the generosity and support of

DU alumnus Marc Nathanson

Students at the Josef Korbel School take a wide variety of classes to earn their master degrees. For many, a wide range of interests can make it diffi cult to decide on a specifi c career. Along with help from the Offi ce of Career and Professional Development, many students are learning what they most want to do through the internships they complete during their graduate studies.

Rae Ann Bories-Easley is the Director of the Josef Korbel School’s Offi ce of Career and Professional Development and works alongside Associate Directors Melissa Martin and Mira Morton Luna, and Assistant Director Diane Witonsky to help students transform their passion for international aff airs into purposeful careers.

Deborah Nicol, a recent alumna, was one of these students. “Th e Offi ce of Career and Professional Development has been fantastic. It was actually one of the things that drew me to the Josef Korbel School,” explained Nicol. “It was reassuring to see that the school isn’t just educating us on theory and throwing us out into the world. Th e career center is very good at helping fi ne tune how to express yourself, and in the process it may provide a better realization of career focus.”

Nicol, who was in the international development program, completed two internships with UNICEF—the fi rst in Manila, Philippines and another in Geneva, Switzerland. “My goal is to become a child protection offi cer in the fi eld and eventually become a coordinator,”

said Nicol. “Th e internships I’ve had have created really great professional connections that have already given me some good leads for job opportunities, which I’m in the process of applying to right now.”

Bories-Easley explained, “Internships are way for students to apply what they’ve learned in the classroom. Also, through internships, students get a real sense for what they like, including types of work environments and culture. It’s also a great networking opportunity. A lot of students get their jobs because of their internships, either directly or indirectly through the contacts they made. And they’re a resume builder and a way to show future employers that students are gaining skills along with knowledge.”

Furthermore, the Offi ce of Career and Professional Development seeks to maximize every student’s experience and ensure that it is directly related to their education and career goals.

“It’s an opportunity to get advising through our offi ce,” Bories-Easley added. “Automatically, internship gets reviewed by Melissa, our Associate Director for Internships. If she fi nds that the internship is not degree-relevant she usually has a conversation with the student to fi nd out what they hope to gain.”

“Students get not only the experience but the advising around it. It really forces them to think, ‘What am I trying to do with this? How does this fi t into my career goals?’ We don’t want students to get to the end of their two years and realize that

South America: 2%Oceania: 1%

By the Numbers Sept. 2013 - Aug. 2014

• 175 students registered 190 internships spanning 25 countries.

• 49% of internships were completed outside of the Denver area.

• Students completed 47 international internships.

• Students interned at 135 organizations: 4% of internships were with nonprofi t organizations, 28% with public institutions, 14% with private companies, and 4% with multilateral agencies.

• The Josef Korbel School awarded $57,975 to eligible students to offset the costs of internship experiences.

- $14,975 supported domestic internships outside of the Denver area.

- $43,000 supported international internships.

Internships @ Korbel


their degree doesn’t match their career goals.”

In addition to the Offi ce of Career and Professional Development, the School’s faculty is also committed to student success. “Chen Reis, director of the Humanitarian Assistance Program, really off ered me great advice. Th e Humanitarian Assistance Program overall is fantastic. Th e courses are amazing. Th e faculty is not only teaching, but they have experience in humanitarian assistance. It helps to

get their perspective rather than just reading theory from a book,” said Nicol.

Students at the Josef Korbel School participate in a wide variety of internships, locally, nationally and internationally, and many students complete more than one internship. Students have worked in the fi eld with multilateral organizations, completed policy briefs and research, event planning and some have even done various work for the UN.

Deborah Nicol during her internship in Manila, Philippines

A Profile in Global Health AffairsFounded in 2003, Global Health Aff airs (GHA)certifi cate program prepares students to address the key role of health in increasingly multisectoral approaches to development, security, diplomacy, human rights and other areas of focus in the public, private and nonprofi t sectors.

Th is year we had the opportunity to speak with one of GHA’s students who is taking the skills he gained in the program to truly create change. Meet Jordan Howard Young, a dual BA/MA student who graduated in June 2014.

Howard-Young began his time at DU as an undergraduate aft er gaining signifi cant work experience. He said, “I majored in international studies and integrated sciences in the biology department. And before that I had done a variety of things. Aft er leaving high school I worked at a church for about a year and a half as a graphic designer and then aft er that I traveled to Zimbabwe and did some HIV/AIDS education work—in rural Zimbabwe.”

As an undergraduate, Howard-Young spent about 6 months doing fi eld research on health access in Palestinian refugee camps. During that time he developed an interest in the Middle East and in infectious disease and access to care. He explained, “In the Middle East infectious disease is a problem and on the social determinant side it’s an even larger problem in some ways because you have some people who won’t even admit that HIV exists in their country. So you have extremely massive stigmas surrounding these things—if you have something in the neighborhood called an HIV clinic then anyone in that neighborhood can see that this person is going to that clinic—and then in some of these places you have health care professionals who just aren’t trained to handle infectious diseases, especially STIs. So, those with sexually transmitted issues struggle with getting health care professionals to act professionally toward them which creates a lot of barriers as well.”

Aft er leaving DU, Howard-Young began medical school at Jeff erson Medical College in Philadelphia. He credits the faculty of the GHA program with providing him with the base knowledge he will need to pursue a career working in an humanitarian assistance setting. He points to one class in particular, “[Dr. Michael Young] invited a panel of HIV infected individuals to come and talk with us. Th e panel was made up of a number of diff erent people. Th ere were straight white males and African American women and gay males—it was a really broad mix of people to show the HIV epidemic in a cross section. And he opened up the fl oor and told us that he had spoken to each of them and that we could ask them anything that we wanted.” Th is experience made such an impression, he adds, “Th at is the one class that I think I will take with me for the rest of my life.”

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In an arc from Pakistan to Mauritania, the international community is confronted by a region in turmoil as peaceful democratic transitions have stalled and authoritarian regimes and violent extremists have gone on the off ensive. In the wake of the Arab Spring revolt, a new military leader has risen to power in Egypt aft er a brutal crackdown on the Muslim Brotherhood; Syria’s civil war appears headed toward a showdown between the government and the extremist Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS); and, Libya’s militias, tribes and cities are choosing sides for a civil war. Traumatic change has created a region with weak and dysfunctional governments, vast ungoverned spaces, porous borders, and jihadis, militias, and tribal forces.

Th e emergence of a critical region rocked by violence has occurred at a time of indecision in world aff airs when previous models for foreign intervention no longer apply. Th e United Nations will not repeat the mega-peace operations that were conducted in Bosnia and Kosovo during the 1990s. Th e United States is unlikely to engage in operations on the scale of Iraq and Afghanistan. Th ese operations were borne of euphoric confi dence in the superiority of the Western democratic model aft er the fall of the Soviet Union and were paid for by growing economies.i Th at confi dence has vanished in a time of recession and Russian resurgence. At the United Nations on September 24, 2013, President Obama said the United States has a “hard-earned humility” about its ability to determine events in other countries.ii

Beyond a crisis in confi dence, the US is frozen in place by its limited capacity to deal with the three drivers of confl ict in the region: religious extremism, weapons proliferation and organized crime. ISIS declaration

of a caliphate is the latest development in a decade-long war between Sunni and Shiite Moslems and their patrons in the Gulf States and Iran. Concurrently, the franchising of al-Qaeda brand jihads has provided legitimacy, license and motivation to groups across northern Africa and the Sahel. Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) was described in a RAND study as indistinguishable from other criminal gangs engaged in kidnapping and cigarette smuggling before its leader announced his allegiance to al Qaeda.iii

Th e spread of religious extremism has coincided with the proliferation of weapons looted from Libyan arms depots and arms smuggled into Syria by the Gulf States. Weapons proliferation has supported the rise of militias, terrorists and tribal forces in Libya where rivals have coalesced into Islamist and secular factions backing rival parliaments and supported by foreign patrons. Weapons proliferation has also fueled the rise of terrorist groups operating in northern Mali, Nigeria, and other parts of the Sahel.

Th e spread of religious extremism and armed groups has been funded by the expansion of organized crime, particularly traffi cking in drugs, weapons and people. Historically, the Sahel was vulnerable to cross border smuggling due to weak governance, grinding poverty and uncontrolled borders. Th is activity was tolerated by regional governments that allowed tribes to earn a living from smuggling as an alternative to providing development assistance. Th is changed aft er the Algerian civil war, the proliferation of weapons from Libya and the rise of the cocaine traffi cking from West Africa. Th e mix of narcotics, weapons and ideology has created a dangerous trade in high value commodities that generates illicit wealth and provides the fi nancial

Confronting the Arab WinterWhere to Start

By Robert Perito (BA, 1964)

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Spotlight: Mimi FowlerSpotlight: Mimi Fowler

In the spring of 2012, Mimi Fowler (MA ’71) requested an appointment to meet Dean Christopher Hill. During the course of the meeting, she decided the best way to support the school was to endow a scholarship. With the signifi cant incentive of the dollar for dollar match by the University, Mimi established a scholarship for Josef Korbel School students from underserved countries. Furthermore, she hoped these students would take the knowledge and skills they learned at the School and apply them back in their own countries. Since establishing the initial scholarship in 2012, Mimi added to the fund in 2013 with an irrevocable bequest commitment.

Mimi grew up near Philadelphia, and attended American University, then graduated from Denison University where she received a Future Teachers Fellowship. Mimi then went on to study at the Josef Korbel School, where she remembers outstanding faculty, a close cohort of students and the study carrels on the fi rst fl oor where many of the students could be found, especially leading up to fi nals week. Mimi joined the Peace Corps in 1975 and journeyed to the Republic of Korea where she taught middle school English and trained Korean teachers. (A member of her Peace Corps group was Kathleen

Stephens who went on to serve as the US ambassador to South Korea from 2008-2011. Ambassador Stephens visited the School in 2014.) While in Korea, Mimi created a health food cookbook which was printed by the Peace Corps. Having grown up with a mother who was a dietician and mostly fed healthy food to her family, Mimi was able to impart a collection of meals that utilized healthy ingredients that could be found in the area. Aft er she left the Peace Corps in 1977, Mimi taught English as a Second Language (ESL) to adults, many of whom were immigrants or refugees. She was involved with the Family Literacy program at Metropolitan State University. Mimi is now retired and divides her time between Grand Lake, CO and Venice, FL. She remains engaged in the Korbel School when she is in town.

In 2012, Mimi traveled to six countries in Africa, further enhancing her resolve to help bring international students to the US She proudly notes that the two things that most dramatically changed her life were the Peace Corps and the Josef Korbel School. Mimi hopes that through the Mimi Fowler Scholarship Fund, more international students might be motivated to come to the School. We are pleased to have the support of our dedicated alumni.

For information about establishing a scholarship for students at the Josef Korbel School, contact Ann Irving, at [email protected] or Jennifer Thompson at [email protected]

Thank Youto both Robert Perito & Mimi Fowler who have established scholarships.

And to all of the alumni, faculty, staff and community members who make it possible for Josef Korbel students to receive a world-class education.

Photo Courtesy of Mimi Fowler

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resources to fund insurgent and terrorist activities.

Against these security challenges, the preferred US tools of air strikes and Special Operations Forces have limited utility. Instead, as General Dempsey, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff , has pointed out “It requires the application of all of the tools of national power—diplomatic, economic, information and military.”iv Th e fi rst step in organizing such a broad based approach is to develop a narrative that describes our intentions in a manner that resonates with the region. Th e extremists have a simple message that attracts adherents: Th ey are defending Islam and all believers should join their cause. Before going further, we need to defi ne our purpose in language that the people we want to help will understand. We can then organize the elements of national power to accomplish our goals.

About the Author

Robert Perito is the Executive Director of the Perito Group, LLC, which advises the US and foreign governments on reforming security sector institutions, and a consultant to the United States Institute of Peace (USIP). Previously, Mr. Perito was the Director of USIP’s Center of Innovation for Security Sector Governance and the Director of the Institute’s Peacekeeping Lessons Learned Project. Recently he developed and taught a USIP Academy course on New Peacekeeping Strategies Following Violent Regime Change.

Prior to joining USIP, Mr. Perito served as Director of the Justice Department’s International Criminal

Investigation Training Assistance Program, supervising police development programs during peace operations in Haiti, Bosnia, and Kosovo. Mr. Perito was a United States Foreign Service Offi cer with the Department of State, retiring with the rank of Minister Counselor. He served as director of the Offi ces of International Criminal Justice, Chinese Aff airs, Southern African Aff airs, and Eastern European Aff airs and was Special Assistant to the Deputy Secretary of State. His diplomatic assignments included Beijing, Hong Kong, Taiwan and the United Nations. Mr. Perito served in the White House as Deputy Executive Secretary of the National Security Staff . He was Director of the Offi ce of Chinese and Southeast Asian Aff airs at the Department of Commerce. Mr. Perito was an American Political Science Association Congressional Fellow and a rural development Peace Corps Volunteer in Nigeria.

He is the author of Where is the Lone Ranger? America’s Search for a Stability Force (Second Edition) and The American Experience with Police in Peace Operations; co-author of Police at War: Fighting Insurgency, Terrorism and Violent Crime; editor of a Guide for Participants in Peace, Stability and Relief Operation; plus reports, book chapters and journal articles.

Mr. Perito received an MA from George Mason University in Peace Operations Policy and a BA from the University of Denver in International Relations. He is a graduate of the State Department Foreign Service Institute School of Chinese Language and Area Studies.

i Michael Ignatieff, “Bosnia and Syria: Intervention Then and Now,” in The Syria Dilemma, Nader Hashemi and Danny Postel, eds. Cam-bridge, Massachusetts, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Press, 2013, pp. 51-52.

ii “Text of Obama’s Speech at the UN” The New York Times, September 24, 2013, http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/25/us/politics/text-of-obamas-speech-at-the-un.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0

iii Christopher Chivvis and Andrew Liepman, “North Africa’s Menace: AQIM’s Evolution and the US Policy Response, “ RAND Corporation, 2013 http://www.rand.org/pubs/research_reports/RR415.html

iv Michael Gordon and Helene Cooper, “US General Says Raiding Syria is Key to Halting ISIS,” The New York Times, August 21, 2014, http://nyti.ms/1mqVjbB

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Contact UsOffi ce of the [email protected] | 303-871-2539

External Relations & DevelopmentJennifer Th ompson, Assoc. Dean of External [email protected] | 303-871-2555

Ann Irving, Director of Development [email protected] | 303-871-2929

Alumni Relations Alicia Kirkeby, Director of Alumni Relations [email protected] | 303-871-2541

CommunicationsDavid Proper, Director of Communications [email protected] | 303-871-3513

Graduate Admissions [email protected] | 303-871-2544

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Where are they now?1964:• John Nelson: Self Employed Consultant, Owner1968: • John Hill: Curry College, Professor Emeritus Of

Politics and History1969: • Wilfried Gruber: Retired, Former Diplomat• Olav F. Knudsen: Retired, Professor Emeritus1971: • Gail Harris: Self Employed, Writer/Speaker• Yves Lagier: Self, Intercultural Training1972: • Ben Johnson: Crooked River Ranch Club &

Maintenance Association, President, Board Of Directors

• Th omas Stauff er: Global Consultation, Managing Partner

• John West: Bredhoff & Kaiser, Pllc, Attorney1974: • E. Joan Nelson: Free Lance, Marketing Consultant1975: • Steven Lamy: USC, Professor and Vice Dean• Charles Lieb: Retired, PDQ Manufacturing, Former

CEO & President1977: • Greg Cashman: Retired, Salisbury University,

Professor Emeritus• Ruth Roded: Th e Hebrew University Of Jerusalem,

Professor Emerita1978: • Paul Trivelli: University Of Miami, Visiting Professor1979: • Kenneth Ellison: Retired, Senior Associate for

Governance and Institutional Development• Joseph Gitari: Ford Foundation, Senior PT

1980: • Robert Mintz: Rotary International, Division

Mananger • Remi Ominiabohs: Wells Fargo, Banking1981: • John Ambler: Recently Retired, Oxfam America,

Vice President Strategy• David Belasco: Retired, Professor• Richard Nelson: US Department Of State, Foreign

Service Offi cer1983: • Nancy Girard: City Of Boston, Commissioner, Dept

Of Environment• Maureen Ruf (Basquill): Ruf & Basquill, Partner1985: • Karin Johnston: American University, Adjunct

Professor• David Levine: Mcdermott Will & Emery, Partner1986: • Stanlie James: Arizona State University, Professor1987: • James Magee: Yankee Brew News, Publisher1988: • Naeem Inayatullah: Ithaca College, Professor• Rune Stroem: Asian Development Bank, Director,

Energy Division, Central and West Asia 1990: • Nadeem Siddiqui: International Finance

Corporation (Ifc), World Bank Group, Head, Pakistan and Afghanistan

1991: • Pat Scholer: Medicom, Inc., National Accounts

Manager• Julie Shipman (McMahan): Self, Business Owner;

Travel Photographer1992: • Gerald Groshek: Professor

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1993: • Patricia Campbell: American Public University,

Vice President and Dean Of Graduate Studies• Helen Lowman: Peace Corps, Associate Director/

Volunteer Recruitment and Selection• Jacek Lubecki: Georgia Southern University,

Director Of Th e Center For International Studies1994: • Douglas Penn: Law Offi ces Of Douglas R. Penn,

LLC, Managing Member1997: • Margo Cummings: Self Employed, Founder• Kelechi Kalu: Th e Ohio State University, Prof &

Assoc Provost For Global Strategies and Int. Aff airs• Charles Vandenberg: Wellpoint, Sr. Business Analyst1998: • Benjamin Gochman: NORAD and USNORTHCOM,

Chief, Engagements and Mexico Desk Offi cer• Jennifer Gueddiche (Kroeck): ECDC African

Community Center, Executive Director• Steven Gustafson: Pmc-Sierra, Inc., Strategic

Product Marketing• Jerome McMurray: Memorial Hospital Of Rhode

Island, Project Coordinator• Jeannie Renne-Malone: Hdr, Director, Greenhouse

Gas Management Services1999: • Polly Holdorf (Jensen): Toeroek Associates, Inc,

National Security Analyst• Traci Lanier: 10,000 Degrees, Vice President/

Deputy Directo• Maria Speer (Gagliardo): Speer Insurance Services,

Vice President• Sjöfn Vilhelmsdóttir: Phd Candidate and Project

Manager2000: • Andrew Freeman: Schneider Electric, Manager,

FP&A Americas2001: • Jen Drolet (Mason): Imoderate Research

Technologies , Managing Partner • Knight Sor: US Department Of Justice, Acting

Regional Director / Conciliation Specialist2002: • Aimie Mims (Langenfeld): Hdr, Inc., Right Of Way

Project Manager• Connie Ostwald (Harris): Coaching To Authenticity,

Executive Coach• Jamie Wakefi eld: Government, Analyst2003: • Rebecca Czarniecki (Stine): Tea With Mrs. B, Owner• Erin Miller: Fwx Inc., Purchasing Manager• Tony Williams: Worleyparsons, Managing Director2004: • Aaron Bagully: Edward Jones, Financial Advisor• Kelly Bruen (Murphy): Ihs, Director - Master Data

Management• Leif Carlson: Noble Energy, Business Analyst• Michael Dyer: Irex (International Research &

Exchanges Board), Deputy Project Director• Robert Lee: United States Citizenship and

Immigration Services, Chief, Requirements Management Branch

• Linda McMullen (Silverman): US Department Of State, Foreign Service Offi cer

• Matthew Shelley: Ef, Director Of University Partnerships

2005: • Noelle Brigden: Watson Institute For International

Studies, Postdoctoral Fellow• Kavitha Kailasam: State Of Colorado - Tony

Grampsas Youth Services, Program Director• Alison Nishi: University Of Denver, Academic

Director2006: • Rebecca Bell-Martin: Brown University , Graduate

Student • Schuyler Dudley: Intermountain Children'S Home,

Case Manager• Christine German: Th e Munathara Initiative,

Deputy Director• George Katcharava: Osce, Senior Democratization

Offi cer• Abby Knowlton: Children’s Hospital Colorado,

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Spanish Interpreter• Sarah McCune: World Bank, Health Consultant • Robert Morgan: US Dept Of State, Foreign Service

Offi cer• Carolyn Munoz: Art + Business One, Digital Brand

Communication Director• Elizabeth Schiff man: State Of Minnesota,

Epidemiologist• Carina Solmirano: Inter-American Development

Bank, Technical Advisor• Nick Th omas: Bridge Linguatec, Director Of

Executive Programs2007: • Diana Hunter: Medair, Human Resource and

Finance Offi cer• Amy Livingston: Global Health Foundation,

Executive Director• Ariana McKnire: Enbridge, Natural Gas and Ngl

Advisor • Chandra Palmer: Rotary International, Area Of

Focus Coordinator• Kate Pearson (Logan): Centers For Disease Control,

Health Policy Analyst• Samira Rajabi: University Of Colorado, Doctoral

Candidate• Maria Van Der Maaten: Iowa State University,

Research Assistant2008: • Morgan Beach: American Red Cross, Corporate

Partnerships Offi cer• Megan Bonta (McGee): Catholic Charities,

Community Integration Services Coordinator• Michael Davis: Veritas Holdings Limited, Chief

Operating Offi cer• Th omas Devine: Boeing, Analyst• Mohammad Holil: Lisi Aerospace, US Operations

Purchasing Manager• Sarah Kornhauser: Hazon, Denver, Director• Jeff Malcolm: World Wildlife Fund, Manager,

Private Sector Engagement• Judith McClintock: Foreign Aff airs Offi cer• Sara Muehlbauer: Cfp Board, Firm Programs

Manager• Rachel Shields: Achievempls, Individual Giving

Manager• Jen Sorenson: Entegra Systems, Inc., Mission

Support Specialist2009: • Hasan Ayoub: An-Najah National University,

Assistant Professor• Ashley Beaudry: American Council Of Life Insurers,

Naic Coordinator and Staff Assistant• Tim Brauhn: Islamic Networks Group,

Communications Manager• Jason Cannata: US State Department, Writer-Editor• Jaclyn Donahue: Oxfam Australia, East Asia

Program Management Coordinator• Augusta Featherston: International Foundation For

Electoral Systems, Youth Advisor; Regional Offi cer• Haley Fletcher: Seriousfun Children's Network,

Senior Program Manager• Karine Lepillez: Vital Voices Global Partnership,

Program Manager• Shota Nakayasu: Th e Nippon Foundation, Project

Manager• Marie Pierson: Goldman Sachs and Co, Associate• Garrett Schiche: Lutheran World Relief, Monitoring

and Evaluation Manager2010: • Jennifer Benkassem (Austin): Management Systems

International, Trainer• Vance Brown: Centers For Disease Control and

Prevention Center For Global Health Global Health Security Branch, Public Health Advisor

• Jonathon Campbel: Portland Energy Conservation, Senior Project Coordinator

• Colleen Farr: Mpeg-La, Royalty Analyst• Autumn Gorman: USAID, Enterprise Development

Specialist• Holly Guthrey: Uppsala University, Department

Of Peace and Confl ict Research, East Asian Peace Program, Program Coordinator/Researcher

• Jessi Jones: Th e Ohio State University Resource Center For Medieval Slavic Studies, Program Coordinator

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• Brittany Kuhn: Th e Boeing Company, State & Local Advocacy Communications

• Devon Lindeboom: Space and Missile Systems Center, Program Manager

• Arie Pals: Department Of Th e Interior, Legislative Aff airs Specialist

• Joel Portman: Centene Corporation, Manager, Network Development

• Daniel Sauve: Ecdc/African Community Center, Job Developer

• Dana Smith (Camp): Cnfa, Program Offi cer• Michaelle Tauson: University Of Sussex, Phd

Candidate• Nicholas Th omas: Martin Luther King Jr. Center,

Global Outreach Coordinator• Chase Willett: American Society Of Hematology,

International Programs Specialist2011: • Cheryl Baehr: Th e Riverfront Times, Food Writer

and Restaurant Critic• Shanae Becker: Olive Group, Pmo Coordinator• Kelly Burt: Self, Writer• Aka Denjongpa: Kada Imports Ltd. , Ceo• Natalie Kleopfer: International Rescue Committee,

Offi cer, Digital Marketing• Timothy Little: Booz Allen Hamilton, Associate• Deborah Munger Jaehning: Department Of

Homeland Security, Duty Manager Screening• Victoria Neff : Th e Cambridge Institute Of

International Education, Collaborative Programs - Lead Consultant

• Erica Rosenfi eld: University Of Toronto, Doctoral Candidate

• Chris Trengove: Institute For Defense Analyses, Research Analyst

2012: • Christopher Estoch: US Department Of State,

Foreign Service Offi cer• Kiki Fornito: Build Change, Development Associate• Katherine Goodman: Shmoop, Content Writer• Natalie Harden: South Metro Denver Small Business

Development Center, Assistant Director

• Chiung-Chiu Huang: National Taiwan University, Assistant Professor

• Sarah Hunt: Sublette County Sexual Assault and Family Violence Task Force, Violence Prevention Coordinator

• Leah Jardine: Colorado Department Of Health Care Policy and Financing, Accountable Care Collaborative Program Analyst

• Hellen Kassa: Silicon Valley Tech Partners, Business Development: East Africa

• Clift on Martin: University Of Michigan's Gerald R. Ford School Of Public Policy, Events & Outreach Manager

• Wendy Lu McGill: Self-Employed, Communications For Development Consultant

• Kay Norby Fial: City Of Boulder, Restoration Artist• Tara Rhodes: University Of Colorado-Denver, Data

Coordinator• Sarah Stanfi eld (Meyer): Cobank, Economist2013: • Adrienne Allen: Carmel Partners, Leasing Associate• Alexander Bowe: Tsinghua University, Doctoral

Candidate In Political Science• Kellie Brandt: One Earth Future Foundation, Project

Assistant • Laura Burns: Grameen Foundation, Programs and

Operations Fellow• Matt Cullen-Meyer: Dsst Public Schools, Financial

Analyst• Kate Davidson: Colorado Department Of Health

Care Policy and Financing, Payment Reform Analyst• Brian Ernst: National Democratic Institute, Intern• Montse Garcia: University Of Texas, International

Visitor Advisor• Ariani Gil-Regalado: American Income Life, Sales

Associate• Jacob Hancock: Varienz Llc, Managing Partner• Jody Haskin: International Organization For

Adolescents (Iofa), Program Assistant• Sara Hein: Compassion International, Program

Assistant• Pablo Hester: Clinica Family Health Services, Clinic

Operations Manager

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• Cynthia Kao: Morgan Stanley, Regional Administrative Assistant

• David Kenrick: Varienz, Llc, Co-Founder & Managing Partner

• Alison Lowe: Th e Nassau Guardian, Business Editor• Sajay Menon (Kattani): Th e Carter Center'S Guinea

Worm Eradication Program, Regional Coordinator• Julie Messersmith (Phillips): Johns Hopkins

University, Assistant Director Of Foundation Relations

• Maureen Pacheco: Absio, Digital Marketing Manager

• Christi Sletten: United Nations Development Programme, Policy Analyst

• Loren Speer: Fema - Boulder County Flood Recovery, Community Outreach

• Brenna Spurgeon: Lockton Companies, Global Benefi ts Account Administrator

• Mark Sturgeon: US Army, Foreign Area Offi cer• Elizabeth Wagner (Presley): US Federal

Government, Military and Political Analyst• Hannah Wiggers (Schultz): University Of

Washington, Organizational Change Management• Brittany Woedl: Accion Nm Az Co, Loan Offi cer• Mary Xu: Colorado Heights University, Career

Services Manager• Sahar Yarjani: Th e Simorgh, Development Associate

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Th e Korbel School constantly strives to realize our vision of preparing students to tackle and address the world’s most pressing policy challenges. To do this, we must off er scholarships that will attract and retain the very best students. Your contribution will help make it possible for bright, dedicated students to attend the Josef Korbel School of International Studies and continue to change the world.

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