Global Engagement

Beginning in spring 2024, Georgetown Global Dialogues bring leading thinkers from the Global South into ongoing public conversations about ways forward in a divided world. The conversations will continue in Rome and Barcelona in 2025.

Nadia Baye (G’26), raised in Ghana, is earning her master of international development policy from the McCourt School of Public Policy. In summer 2025, Baye will implement her policy knowledge in development through the MIDP Summer Experience.

The Global Human Development Program hosted a discussion featuring Shiro Gnanaselvam, CEO of Social Impact, and Sloan Mann, president of DT Global, to explore the future of development and highlight career paths for young professionals.

Sophia Rose Monsalvo (C’26) is part of the inaugural class earning the B.S. in environment and sustainability. Her recent research in Colombia recently won second place at the Big East Undergraduate Research Poster Symposium.

Faculty, students, and legal advocates gathered at Georgetown Law on March 24 for a discussion of the new presidential administration’s activities on a range of immigration issues including detention, deportation, and asylum.

Jean-Baptiste Mazarati (G'12) has emerged as a health leader in his native Rwanda, contributing to the development of a renowned health care system and protecting the country from Ebola, COVID-19, and other threats.

School of Foreign Service students spent spring break engaging thoughtfully with host communities and gaining insight into diverse worldviews in Ghana, Taiwan, Romania, and more.

This blog posts from the Georgetown Institute for Women, Peace and Security discusses the vulnerabilities and oppression that ethnic minority women face in Burma and explores the unique roles they play in peacebuilding.

In March 2025, the Georgetown Institute for Women, Peace and Security (GIWPS) published two new reports on the gender-climate-security nexus in partnership with the Embassy of Denmark in Washington, D.C.

Kareema Dauod-Akguc (SFS’04, G’05) reflects on her time teaching at Georgetown University in Qatar during a sabbatical from her two-decade-long career as a diplomat at the U.S. Department of State.

Lillian Alexander (G'20) draws on her international development policy degree and the lifelong community she gained at the McCourt School of Public Policy as director of impact at Mercy Corps Ventures.

For the third consecutive year, students in the Women as Change Makers at Georgetown University in Qatar course embarked on a trip to Washington, DC designed to empower women and foster camaraderie.

In this blog post, Luke Hughes (SFS’27) tells the story of his spring break pilgrimage to Spain with Magis Immersion Seminars, walking the path that St. Ignatius took from his hometown to the port of Barcelona.