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Published March 17, 2018 by Rebecca Goldfine
The people the students met in D.C.
Ambassador Tom Pickering ‘53
U.S. Senator Susan Collins
U.S. Sen. Angus King
William Cohen ’62, CEO of The Cohen Group, former U.S. Secretary of Defense, U.S. Senator, and Congressman
Mark Dimunition, Library of Congress, Chief, Rare Books/Special Collections at Library of Congress
John Swords ’15 – Legislative Aid, US House of Representatives
Samantha Waxman ’10 – Center on Budget and Policy Priorities
Russell Halliday ’11 – Legislative Aid, Rep. James McGovern
Melissa Wiley ‘13 – Digital Producer, Smithsonian
Tamera Luzzatto, former Chief of Staff for Sen. Hillary Clinton and Sen. John D. Rockefeller
Jim Ziglar, Former INS Commissioner and U.S. Senate Sergeant At Arms
Sharon Yandian ‘88, Office of Head Start Lead, DHHS
Karen Walker ’84, Bowdoin trustee
Paul Clement – 43rd Solicitor General
Erin Murphy – Supreme Court/Appellate Litigator
Dan Donovan – Commercial and Civil Rights Litigator Chris Landau – Supreme Court Lawyer
John O’Quinn – Supreme Court & Appellate Advocate
Susan Davies – Deputy White House Counsel to Obama
Mike Shumsky – Supreme Court & Appellate Advocate Michael Jones – Trial Court Specialist
Jeremy Arling ’01, Attorney, Environmental Protection Agency
Susan Thornton ’85, Asst. Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs US Department of State
Christopher Hill ’74, Former Ambassador to Iraq, South Korea, Poland and Macedonia and Asst Sect of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs
Kristin St. Peter ’96, Deputy Associate Director, Capabilities, National Geo-Spatial Intelligence Agency
Rob Jenkins ’91, Deputy Assistant Administrator, Bureau for Democracy, Conflict and Humanitarian Asst. US AID
Seth Jones ’95, Director of the Transnational Threats Project (TNT) Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)
John McClelland ’91, Assistant Director for Tax Analysis, Congressional Budget Office
Kara Podkaminer ’03, Technology and Policy Analyst, US Dept of Energy Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy
Katie Auth ’08, Deputy Energy Office Director, Power Africa US AID
Ike Irby ’09 – AGU (American Geophysical Union) Congressional Fellow through AAAS Science/Technology Fellowship
Kari Twaite ’06, Attorney Advisor, Office of Assistant General Counsel for Environment
Meroe Park, Executive Vice President, Partnership for Public Service Former Executive Director of Central Intelligence Agency
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