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Lisa LeBourgeois, an MA student in our Global Communication program, attended the 2023 Brussels Urban Summit, as part of her capstone research. The Summit brought together the Metropolis World Congress, the Eurocities Annual Conference and the sixth OECD Champion Mayors Summit for Inclusive Growth Initiative.

Lisa wrote that “it was a perfect match for our project, which compares the impact of the Ukrainian refugee crisis on refugee and asylum policies among EU member cities of international city diplomacy networks.”

She was able to attend this conference after an enriching semester abroad at Sciences Po in Paris. Lisa graciously thanked IPDGC and the Elliott School for International Affairs (ESIA) for “supporting my academic goals, capstone travel, and rewarding Global Comm international experiences.”

This fall, Lisa will be entering her final semester in the program.

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The Institute for Public Diplomacy and Global Communication wishes all the best for 2022!

By Yvonne Oh, IPDGC Program Coordinator

This year we warmly welcome IPDGC’s new director, Dr. William Youmans. Dr. Youmans is an associate professor at the George Washington University’s School of Media and Public Affairs. His area of expertise is media law and global communications, Middle Eastern politics and society; social movements, and Arab-American studies. More information on Dr. Youmans can be found here.

Through the hybrid work environment of 2021, IPDGC was able to organize virtual events such as the Walter Roberts Endowment Annual Lecture, present the 2021 Award for Congressional Leadership in Public Diplomacy, and host a Distinguished Humphrey Fellowship program for 15 media professionals from Eastern and Central Europe.

For 2022, IPDGC, with the Walter Roberts Endowment, will continue to support public diplomacy excellence in academia and for career professionals. If you would like to know more about our other activities, please go here.

And you can always support our public diplomacy activities here.

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Global Comm MA Student Attends Brussels Urban Summit

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