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Announcing the 2025 Georgetown Global Dialogues in Rome and Barcelona
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.
Inspired by Pioneering Female Leaders, A Policy Student Confronts Gender Equity across Africa
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 Impacts of Community-based Conservation in Santa Marta, Colombia: A Case Study with Fundación Estación Biológica Bachaqueros
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.
Experts Defend Migrant and Refugee Rights at Georgetown Law Panel
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.
Q&A: Jean-Baptiste Mazarati (G’12) Builds Health Care Excellence in Rwanda
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.
SFS Students Go Global Over Spring Break
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.
Women as Bridge Builders: Intersectional Leadership in Burma’s Peace Movement
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.
Georgetown Launches Climate Study at United Nations, in Partnership with Danish Government
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.
POV on Finding Hope: How Georgetown’s Campus in Qatar is Educating Diplomats for a New Era
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.
She Wanted to Have an Outsized Impact. She Now Leads Impact Management for a Global Development Investor.
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.
GU-Q Students Witness Global Shifts Firsthand Through Immersive Learning in Washington, DC
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.
Contemplatives in Action: Why I’m Grateful for My Spring Break Pilgrimage to Spain
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.