Alumni Stories

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  1996 Graduate Receives Prestigious Award for Her Contributions to U.S. Foreign Policy
  Farhana (Ali) Qazi is one of the country’s leading experts on Pakistan
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  Carolyn Sookram Cotney
  Carolyn enjoys working with words every day as an editor and writer. 
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  Rachel Wallis
  Rachel Wallis works as the Director of International Protocol Services for the City of Dallas and the World Affairs Council of Dallas/Fort Worth
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  Randi Reid
  Randi Reid is currently the Legislative Director in the office of U.S. Senator Mike Enzi
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  Kevin Livesay
  Kevin is currently a Firefighter in the Austin Fire Department.
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  Henrietta Muñoz, Ph.D.
  Dr. Muñoz is the United Way of San Antonio & Bexar County‘s Eastside Promise Neighborhood Director.
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  Emily Hardt
  Emily is the Director of the Women’s Institute for Leadership Development and is currently completing her PhD in Political Science at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. 
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  Analiese Richard, Ph.D.
  Analiese is Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Faculty Chair in the School of International Studies at the University of the Pacific. 
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  Judie Niskala Daniel
  Judie is currently the Outreach Coordinator at the Texas Freedom Network, a political non-profit based in Austin, Texas that works to protect religious freedom, defend civil liberties and strengthen public schools. 
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  Jacob Beswick
  Jacob currently works as Program Officer for the Every Casualty Program at the Oxford Research Group, a London-based think tank focused on a range of global security issues. 
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  Sara Daly
  Sara is currently working as a Political Analyst for the U.S. Government. 
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  Holly Martin Davis
  Holly is the Family Law Partner at Zinda & Davis, PLLC, a law firm in Austin, Texas which specializes in litigation and collaborative law. 
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  Phaedra Jackson
  Phaedra works in the social justice movement, currently as a project director for Virginia New Majority, where she organizes communities of color, women, working people, LGBTs, youth and progressive people. 
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  Brittany Sayer
  Brittany is currently a 1L student at the University of New Mexico School of Law in her hometown of Albuquerque, NM.
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  Christina Sohn
  Christina works as a designer for an urban design and landscape architecture firm in Philadelphia.
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  Mary Kierst Hutchens
  Mary is a PhD student in Leadership, Policy, and Organizations at Vanderbilt University. 
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  Tim Treviño
  Tim serves as the Alamo Area Council of Governments’ (AACOG) first Senior Director of Strategic Planning & Agency Communications. 
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  Farhana Qazi
  Farhana is an internationally-recognized terrorism expert who advises U.S. policymakers and is a frequent speaker at U.S. government events and international conferences.
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  Clare Brock
  Clare is pursuing a PhD in Government at the University of Texas at Austin.
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  Jessica West
  Jessica was an International Studies major who has spent time traveling in China. 
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  Lissa Terrel
  Lissa is a Senior Project Manager with National Instruments, specializing in high risk, cross functional global projects.
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  Lindsey Knapton
  Lindsey works with Peace Corps as an English teacher in Namibia.
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  Courtney Clegg Kasper
  Courtney is now an attorney in the Dallas office of Thompson, Coe, Cousins & Irons, LLP.
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  Amy Hubbard
  Amy is currently a Chinese language student at the National Cheng Kung University (NCKU) in Tainan city.
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  Kyle Mathis
  Kyle is a second year student at the University of Alabama School of Law.
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  Juan Juarez
  Juan Juarez is currently in his first year as a 2011 Teach For America Corps Member in San Antonio, Texas.
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  Darlene Thompson
  Darlene is currently an academic advisor for the Upward Bound program at Southwestern University who plans to attend graduate school in Fall of 2012.
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  Martin Fergus
  Martin is a first-year student at Texas Tech School of Law.
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  Lauren Glass
  Lauren is currently in her first year of graduate school at the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas at Austin.
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  Chelsea Marshall
  Chelsea is now the Program Coordinator for the International Visitor Program and International Education Program at the World Affairs Council of Dallas/ Fort Worth.