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Student Spotlight: Mohammad Fayaz Yourish
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Alumni Spotlight: Laura Brendle
By Alexis Posel, IPDGC Communications Student Assistant Laura Brendle graduated from the M.A.Global Communication graduate program in 2018. She was the recipient of that year’s Student Public Diplomacy Award which recognized her efforts in public diplomacy studies....
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Alumni Spotlight: Saiansha Panangipalli
By Mohamad Fayaz Yourish Saiansha Panangipalli is a former Global Initiatives Fellow at GW who graduated from the M.A.Global Communication graduate program in 2021. She currently works as the Programs and Communications Lead at the Science Innovation and Technology...
A Conversation with Christopher Teal
Last year we introduced Christopher Teal, the Institute’s Public Diplomacy Fellow for 2022-2024. As a GW alumnus, he has enjoyed his time back on campus and now being on the “other side of the academic fence”, teaching an undergraduate course in...