Master of International Policy and Practice Online

Great opportunity to work with Master of International Policy and Practice Online grad Kathryn Farley at Solar Sister! Check out the link here. https://solarsister.org/career/program-associate-us/

The Program Associate is ideal for someone with 1-3 years of experience in gender, international development, women’s entrepreneurship, and/or monitoring and evaluation. They are looking for a candidate who is deeply curious, flexible, and loves to learn as they go!

Program Associate, USA - Solar Sister Job Title: Program AssociateReports to: Director of ProgramsLocation: Virtual position; Washington, D.C. Metro Area home base is preferred WHO WE ARE Solar Sister’s mission is to eradicate energy poverty by empowering women with economic opportunity. We are creating a deliberately woman-centered n...

MIPP Associate Director Laila Sorurbakhsh joins the 3rd cohort of the year-long GW Academic Leadership Academy! She shares her thoughts on the opportunity in the article below.

GW Academic Leadership Academy Welcomes Third Cohort and Celebrates Outgoing Second Cohort Participants across the university commit to skill-building seminars and projects.

Well done, Ganzul!

MIPP student Ganzul Erdenebal's project on "Women’s Political Empowerment in Mongolia" was recently selected to be funded by World Bank Group's Youth Innovation Fund!

The Youth Innovation Fund (YIF) provides up to $100,000 per year in grants for early-career World Bank Group (WBG) employees to design, implement, and evaluate development projects in line with WBG priority areas. Out of 80 proposals this year, 5 projects were selected to be funded by the YIF.

The “Women’s Political Empowerment project” aims to enhance gender equality in Mongolia by increasing women’s participation in national and local governments. It will conduct an intensive Bootcamp for female elected representatives and Digital Campaign to reach out to women including the younger generation in Mongolia to make them interested in political office.

The Bootcamp and coordinated digital campaign aim to strengthen women’s participation in politics through new learning methods for capacity building and innovative dissemination of knowledge and learning. The learning methods will mimic real-life scenarios through interactive role-playing sessions, to teach the women about the challenges they may face in their political careers.

Congratulations, Ganzul!

MIPP mini-reunion last week in Dakar, Senegal!

We are always happy to see our brilliant alumni connect around the world! Sandy Maroun (left) started working as a Reporting Officer at the Regional Office for West and Central Africa for the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) earlier this year. Marguerite Ciss (right) currently serves as a consultant policy advisor for the UN Capital Development Fund. Keep up the great work - we look forward to hearing about your impact and accomplishments!

MIPP student Matt Hewlett recently presented his Capstone research at the annual Midwestern Political Science Conference. His paper, "Does Military Intervention Affect Political Stability in MENA?" dissects various measures of political stability to show how military interventions can both stabilize in some areas, and destabilize in others. Well done, Matt!

Happening today!

"Peace in the Age of Chaos: The Best Solution for a Sustainable Future" from 5 - 6:30 PM EDT tonight via Zoom.

Attendees will hear from Steve Killelea, founder of the Global Peace Index and the Institute for Economics and Peace. Discussants will include our very own Matthew Levinger, as well as Pedro Conceição. Click on the link below to register!

Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: Peace in the Age of Chaos: The Best Solution for a Sustainable Future. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting. The major challenges facing humanity are global in nature – climate change, pandemics, ever decreasing biodiversity, lack of usable freshwater, and food security to name a few. Without a basically peaceful world, we will never get the levels of trust, cooperation, and inclusiveness needed to solve...

Major Thomas Dyrenforth, MIPP '17, was recognized as the 2019 DOD Military Attaché of the Year among over 200 military attachés worldwide. From 2018 to 2020, Major Dyrenforth served as the Army Attaché at the U.S. Embassy in DR of Congo and the Republic of Congo where he worked closely with the partner nation’s respective defense ministries, chiefs of defense, and senior officers to advance regional security efforts and support strengthened military relationships. His contributions significantly increased the United States Government’s understanding of the complex political-military environment across a geographic area larger than Western Europe with a population greater than 90 million people. Congratulations!

We still have open seats in our summer courses. Register now before they fill up!

MIPP student Nakisa Azizikontenaei recently won 2nd place in the Elliott school-wide Policy Memo Competition addressing bias in the discipline. Nakisa presented her brief, which addressed strategies that help integrate international students into our educational system more effectively, in Thursday's student panel as part of Inclusive Excellence Week. Well done!

MIPP student Major Ebony Thomas was promoted last week to Lt. Col. in the US Army. In a promotion ceremony held in her honor at the Women's Memorial Museum, friends, family, and colleagues celebrated Ebony's personal and professional accomplishments throughout the years. "Having the opportunity to celebrate Ebony's promotion and learning a little bit more about her life achievements was both inspiring and humbling," said Prof. Laila Sorurbakhsh, who was in attendance. "Ebony is truly a leader both inside and outside the classroom." The timing of Ebony's promotion also coincides with the implementation of her Capstone project, which addresses Ethical Leadership.