#PDx – IPDGC Smart Power

Our podcast kicks off with a new interviewer, graduate student Adeniyi Funsho, and an interview about Diversity and Inclusion in International Affairs.

The latest season of PDx is back!

PDx Interviewer Adeniyi Funsho, MA Media and Strategic Communications ’22

This season, our interviewer is Adeniyi Funsho, a graduate in the Media and Strategic Communications program at the School of Media and Public Affairs.

PDx – or Public Diplomacy Examined – is where we speak to the doers and thinkers in public diplomacy: the foreign service experts, the exchanges specialists, the academic observers and the supporters of international engagement and global communications.

This first podcast is with Professor Jonathan M. Walker, Senior Assistant Dean for Student Services, and Diversity, Equity and Inclusion at the GW Elliott School of International Affairs.

Professor Jonathan M. Walker,
GW Elliott School

In this conversation, Prof. Walker talks about the benefits of fixing the higher education system that would better serve underrepresented populations, and how diversity and inclusion will improve academic study and develop the professionals needed in the current world of International Affairs.

Please do enjoy the conversation >LISTEN HERE

With a global pandemic and lockdowns in many countries, U.S. diplomats have to find different ways to engage with people in their host countries. In this PDx episode, GW student Olivia Estes interviews Karl Stoltz, Counselor for Public Affairs at the US Embassy in Moscow, Russia.

Together with the challenges of the U.S.-Russia bilateral relationship, Karl and his Public Affairs team have had to be very creative in coming up with content for virtual programs that would appeal to the Russian public who are stuck at home. He even recruited family to participate in a presentation on American music!

Karl also recounts his previous posting to Moscow, right before the fall of the Berlin Wall; and crises he has experienced in other countries. Karl is a Senior Foreign Service Officer who joined the service in 1986 and has served in Washington, D.C., Europe, Africa, East Asia, and the Pacific. Karl was the GW Visiting State Department Public Diplomacy Fellow, 2018 – 2019.

Please enjoy this PDx episode on Connecting in the time of Covid-19: US Embassy Moscow.

Other PDx episodes are available here.

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And PDx is back for a new season!

Our podcast kicks off with a new interviewer, graduate student Adeniyi Funsho, and an interview about Diversity and Inclusion in International Affairs.