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SUMMARY:Transitions and Taking a Leap: Switching Sectors and Leveraging your Contacts
DESCRIPTION:
Transitions and Taking a Leap:
Switching Sectors and L
everaging your Contacts
Thinking about switching sectors or going out on you
r own? What should you consider before you jump? Join us for a conversation
on career transitions and advancing your career in international affairs.
Join us to hear from:
Barrie Freem
an, United Nations Peacebuilding Support Office Deputy and Politic
al Director
Reta Jo Lewis, The German Marshall Fund S
enior Fellow and Director of Congressional Affairs
Wanida Lew
is, Environment360 Programs and Strategic Partnerships Former Dire
ctor
Wenchi Yu, VIPKid Global
Public Policy Head
Chantal de Jonge Oudraat, Women In International Security President (Moderator)
Monday, August 10, 2020 | 1 to 2:15 PM EDT<
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Panel D
iscussion: 1:00 to 1:45 PM EDT
Breakout Sessions: 1:45 to 2:15 PM EDT<
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Registration for this event is now closed.
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Registration is free for WFPG and WIIS m
embers and $15 for non-members.
No
t a member? Join us! <
span style="font-family: verdana, geneva; font-size: 13px;">Space is limite
d and advance registration is required.
Barrie Freeman is the deputy and political director of
the United Nations Peacebuilding Support Office. Prior to her appointment i
n 2018, she served as the Chief of Staff for the Multidimensional Integrate
d Stabilization Mission in the Central African Republic (MINUSCA), and befo
re that as the Mission's Political Affairs Director. Before joining the UN,
she managed democracy and governance programs at NDI, first in Central and
West Africa and then later in North Africa in the wake of the Arab Spring.
Freeman spent 15 years with the State Department, working in Tunisia, Moro
cco, Lesotho, and Nigeria. In Washington, she served in the Office of the I
nspector General and in the Office of African Analysis as the chief politic
al analyst for Nigeria and other West African countries. While at the State
Department, she earned the Department's Meritorious and Superior Honor Awa
rds, as well as a Distinguished Analyst Award. Reta Jo Lewis is a Sen
ior Fellow and Director of Congressional Affairs at The German Marshall Fun
d. She joined GMF in 2015, as a Senior Resident Fellow with the Transatlant
ic Leadership Initiative Program. During the Obama Administration, she serv
ed as the State Department’s first Special Representative for Global Interg
overnmental Affairs, where she focused on building peer-to-peer relationshi
ps between the Department, state and local officials, and their foreign cou
nterpart, and was awarded the Secretary’s Distinguished Service Award for h
er work. Previously, she was the Director of Business Outreach for the Obam
a-Biden Presidential Transition Team. Earlier in her career, she served as
the Vice President and Counselor to the President at the US Chamber of Comm
erce, Shareholder at Greenberg Traurig, Of Counsel at Edwards Wildman Palme
r LLP, and as a Special Assistant to President Bill Clinton. In 2014, Lewis
ran for mayor of DC. She began her career as a Presidential Management Fel
low. Wanida Lewis has direct
ed programs and strategic partnerships for Environment360 in Accra, Ghana.
Previously, she was a senior economic evaluation program analyst at the Dep
artment of State's Office of Global Women's Issues. Lewis completed a fello
wship as an AAAS Science and Technology Policy Fellow working in the Bureau
of Economic and Business Affairs. During her fellowship, she founded Young
, Gifted, & Brown, LLC, a pipeline program supporting young Ghanaian wo
men and entrepreneurs in STEM. Lewis was named by New America as one of the
thirty-five "Black American National Security in 2018, and Foreign Policy
Next Generation Leaders" and is a 2019 Young Professionals in Foreign Polic
y "Gender Issues in Foreign Policy Fellow." Wenchi Yu is the Head of Global Public Policy a
t VIPKid, an education technology platform company. In this role, she launc
hed the social impact initiative and VIPTeach.org, a non-profit seed funded
and incubated by VIPKid to promote equitable access to education through t
echnology. She is a Nonresident Research Fellow at Harvard Kennedy School’s
Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation, and a life member of
Council on Foreign Relations. Prior to VIPKid, Yu was the Head of Corporate
Engagement for Goldman Sachs in Asia, where she led strategic philanthropy
for stakeholder engagement and social impact in Asia. Before joining the p
rivate sector, she was a senior advisor on global women’s issues at the Dep
artment of State, and conducted research on rule of law and civil society d
evelopment for the Congressional-Executive Commission on China. She began h
er career working for various nonprofit organizations on women’s rights, hu
man trafficking, and immigrant issues. Chantal de Jong
e Oudraat has served as President of Women In International Securi
ty (WIIS) since February 2013. Prior to joining WIIS, she was the founding
and executive director of the Stockholm International Peace Research Instit
ute (SIPRI) North America. Her previous positions include senior advisor to
the US Institute of Peace Center for Gender and Peacebuilding; associate v
ice president and director of the USIP Jennings Randolph Fellowship Program
; adjunct associate professor at Georgetown’s Walsh School of Foreign Servi
ce; and senior fellow at the Center for Transatlantic Relations at Johns Ho
pkins SAIS. Her areas of specialization include women, peace and security,
international organizations, arms control and disarmament, and peacekeeping
. She did her undergraduate studies at the University of Amsterdam and rece
ived her PhD in Political Science from the University of Paris II (Panthéon
).
This summer, the Women's Foreign Pol
icy Group and Women In International Security have teamed up to host monthl
y virtual career development events. Throughout our Professional Developmen
t Series, participants can build upon important career develop
ment skills and connect with professionals in international affairs.
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