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.
