Brent Scowcroft Award Fellowship

About the Program

In recognition of ASG Founding Co-Chairman Lieutenant General Brent Scowcroft’s dedication to the Aspen Strategy Group and his legacy of distinguished public service, the Aspen Strategy Group launched the Brent Scowcroft Award Fellowship program in 2003. The program is designed to prepare a new generation of foreign policy practitioners to take a leading role in our increasingly complex world. Scowcroft Fellows have the unique opportunity to experience first-hand how today’s preeminent politicians, leaders, and thinkers set aside differences and exchange ideas and insights for open and cooperative dialogue. Through immersion in the planning and execution of high-level discussions on foreign policy challenges, Scowcroft Fellows learn the critical place of track II initiatives in the setting of American foreign policy, as well as the skills required to execute conferences and communicate effectively with national security leaders.  

Scowcroft Fellows typically join the ASG team for a period of 6 months, during which time they are encouraged to develop practical skills and build knowledge in the field of foreign policy and national security while having the opportunity to establish a rapport with members of the group. Given a great deal of responsibility and an environment in which to thrive, Scowcroft Fellows constitute an integral part of the ASG.

 To learn more about General Scowcroft’s legacy and what he means to the ASG, please read the Group’s tribute to him here.

Current Fellows

Mathilda Silbiger  

Mathilda joins the Aspen Strategy Group as a recent graduate of Brown University, where she concentrated in International and Public Affairs on the Policy and Governance track. Throughout her undergraduate education, she specialized in humanitarian studies, international development, and U.S. national security. For her capstone paper, she evaluated the effectiveness of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda as a tool for reconciliation following the 1994 Rwandan genocide. As an Undergraduate Teaching and Research Award grantee, she studied the nexus of development, climate, and humanitarian finance as part of a joint research team between Brown University’s Watson Institute and InterAction. Mathilda was editor-in-chief of the Brown Political Review and president of the Brown Model United Nations program. At Brown, she served as student liaison to Senior Fellows Tom Perez and Malika Saada Saar, Watson Student Advisory Board member, and first-year orientation leader. She is originally from Berlin, Germany.

Karina Martinez

Karina Martinez is joining the Aspen Strategy Group from the School of International Service at American University. While earning her master’s degree at SIS, she focused on U.S. foreign policy and national security, and worked as a graduate teaching and research assistant from 2021 to 2022. For her capstone project, she contributed to a group report and presentation for the U.S. State Department’s Bureau of Intelligence and Research that identified the sources and methods of terrorist financing for Sunni-aligned groups, as well as country-specific anti-money laundering and combating the financing of terrorism (AML/CFT) efforts in the Gulf Cooperation Council countries. She received her B.A. in government and Chinese language and culture from Dartmouth College in 2019. At Dartmouth, she was a member of the varsity women’s rugby team, a junior research scholar, an editor for the undergraduate journal of international affairs, a Chinese tutor, and a research assistant with the Political Violence Lab. She is originally from Tucson, AZ.

Former Fellows

2023

Brent Katz

Brent Katz is currently a Legislative Correspondent for Congressman Tom Suozzi, who represents Long Island. Previously, he was a Brent Scowcroft Award Fellow at the Aspen Strategy Group (ASG), where he helped organize the annual Aspen Security Forum, annual ASG Summer Workshop, and a Track II Dialogue with the China Central Party School. He also assisted in coordinating a roundtable discussion with members of the U.S. strategic community and a Chinese delegation led by Director Wang Yi, in the first U.S. visit by a Chinese Foreign Minister since 2019. During his fellowship, Brent co-authored a report with the MITRE Corporation on integrated deterrence, titled, “A Sum Greater Than Its Parts: Integrated Deterrence and Strategic Competition.” Brent is a graduate from Duke University, where his studies focused on comparative politics, national security, and international relations. He completed his B.A. in Political Science, earning high distinction for his honors thesis on illiberal democracy in Hungary. He has professional experience in think tanks, political campaigns, and Congress, including a legislative internship in the office of former Speaker Nancy Pelosi. As an undergraduate, Brent helped run Duke’s Program in American Grand Strategy, one of the nation’s premier co-curricular programs on national security, military, and intelligence issues. He spent a semester in Denmark studying the European Union, Russian hybrid warfare, and economic sanctions.

2022

Chris Herrmann

Chris joins the Aspen Strategy Group from the Korbel School of International Studies at the University of Denver. At the Korbel School, his studies were focused on international trade and finance as well as the confluence of sports and international politics. Prior to graduate school, Chris served as a Fulbright Fellow in Athens, Greece, where his work focused on cross-cultural communication at Athens College and the Hellenic-American Educational Foundation. Before moving to Greece, Chris was a member of Teach for America and taught middle school English and coached high school lacrosse for four years. Chris graduated with a degree in sociology from Chapman University where he also worked with Nobel Laureate Vernon Smith, Bart Wilson, and Jan Osborn to develop the Humanomics program, now formally housed in the Smith Institute for Political Economy and Philosophy. Chris is thrilled for this opportunity and is looking forward to living and working in Washington, D.C.

Georgiy Kent

Georgiy joined the Aspen Strategy Group from Harvard Kennedy School’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs where he served as lead Research Assistant for the Future of Diplomacy Project. Georgiy conducted in depth research on U.S. diplomacy and international affairs, producing the center’s “A U.S. Diplomatic Service for the 21st Century” report. Georgiy also interned for the Partnership for Public Service, contributing to the Best Places to Work in the Federal Government initiative. Before that, he worked at the Atlantic Council’s Eurasia Center, conducting research and producing events focusing on political, economic, and social changes in Eastern Europe. Georgiy graduated Harvard College cum laude with high honors in Social Studies and Slavic Literatures and Cultures. At Harvard, Georgiy specialized in socio-political developments in Post-Soviet countries and wrote his senior thesis on Crimean Tatar civil society responses to Russia’s occupation of Crimea.

Maya Rosales

Maya joined the Aspen Institute from the United Nations High Commission on Refugees where she helped families resettle in the US. She previously interned for the Council on Foreign Relations in New York where she helped draft and publish educational content for the think tank. Prior to this, she was a participant in the U.S. Department of State’s diversity pipeline Foreign Service Internship Program. There she worked for the office of Security and Human Rights in the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor. As part of the same program, she also interned for the Political Section at U.S. Embassy Lima in Peru. In 2019, she worked in Vice President Kamala Harris’s then-Senate office as a legislative intern. She has also worked on housing and migration issues as an intern at both California Rural Legal Assistance and at the East Bay Sanctuary Covenant. In May 2021, Maya earned her Bachelor’s degree with high distinction in Political Science with a concentration in International Relations from the University of California at Berkeley, where she was an FGLI student and Leadership Award recipient. While there she was a Research Apprentice at Berkeley’s Latinx Research Center and published work pertaining to U.S. Foreign Policy disparities in Haiti and Venezuela. As a 2022 Pickering Foreign Affairs Fellow she will soon start graduate school and join the U.S. Department of State as a Foreign Service Officer. She is originally from Sonoma County, CA.

2021

Emily Lawrence

Emily Lawrence is a former Scowcroft Fellow and current Aspen Strategy Group Fellow with the Aspen Strategy Group. She joined the Aspen Strategy Group from United Way of Northeast Florida where her work as Affinity Groups Manager supported local programs in health and human services. Prior to this, she served as the Deputy Finance Director for Ambassador Nancy Soderberg’s congressional campaign in Florida District 6. She earned her Master of Science in International Relations from the London School of Economics where her studies focused on diplomacy, foreign policy analysis, and international political theory. Her graduate dissertation examined American space policy towards the Soviet Union and China through the lens of constructivist theory. In 2013, she interned in the UK Parliament in the office of the Deputy Leader of the House of Commons at the time, Tom Brake MP. She has been published on Project Syndicate as a co-author with Dr. Anne-Marie Slaughter. She graduated summa cum laude from Florida State University with her Bachelor of Arts in International Affairs and a minor in Economics. She is originally from Jacksonville, FL.

Marko Mavrovic

Marko Mavrovic came to the Aspen Strategy Group in March 2021 from the Prindle Institute for Ethics in Greencastle, IN, where he developed virtual resources designed to improve the moral reasoning, analysis, and presentation skills of students and professionals. Prior to this, he interned at the U.S. Consulate General in Edinburgh, Scotland and the Indiana State Senate. In the fall of 2020, he earned a Master of Science in International Relations from the London School of Economics. His master’s dissertation explored how ethnonational polarization resulted in intergroup violence in Krajina during the collapse of Yugoslavia. In 2019, Marko graduated summa cum laude from DePauw University with a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science and a minor in Philosophy, having twice served as captain of the university Ethics Bowl team. His undergraduate Honor Scholar thesis examined the effect of Brexit on British national unity and was awarded “Honors with Distinction.” He is a member of the Phi Beta Kappa. He will be pursuing a PhD and plans to devote his career to public service.

Kelly Murphy

Kelly Murphy joined the Aspen Strategy Group in February 2021 from the Mediation Center of the Coastal Empire, where she served as an AmeriCorps VISTA volunteer mediating disputes and facilitating dialogues. She recently earned M.Phil in Conflict Resolution and Reconciliation from Trinity College Dublin, graduating with distinction and winning the James Haire Essay Prize for her dissertation on police reform in Northern Ireland. Prior to her graduate studies, Kelly was a research assistant for Chen & Cragen, a communications firm in Seattle, researching for clients like Microsoft and Intel. Kelly graduated magna cum laude from New York University Abu Dhabi in 2018 with a degree in Political Science and served as Student Body President. Kelly now works for the Aspen Institute’s International Programs division and will attend Harvard Law School this coming fall. She plans to pursue a career in international conflict mediation.

2020

Tobias Brandt

Tobias Brandt is an independent research contractor, focusing on international money laundering and terrorist financing. As a former Scowcroft Fellow at the Aspen Strategy Group (ASG), he helped organize and execute multiple high-level conferences including the ASG’s Summer Workshop, Aspen Security Forum, and Aspen Ministers Forum. Mr. Brandt completed his M.A. in Statecraft and International Affairs at the Institute of World Politics (IWP) in Washington, D.C., graduating as Salutatorian of the class of 2019. Throughout his graduate studies, he specialized in U.S. foreign policy towards the Middle East, terrorism, and the transatlantic relationship. In his final semester at IWP, Mr. Brandt wrote an honors thesis on “Pushing Back Terrorist Propaganda and Countering Ideological Support for Militant Islamism.” He also completed an internship at the Hudson Institute and has been published in The National Interest, writing on the German-American relationship. Originally from Germany, Mr. Brandt received his B.A. in Middle Eastern Studies from the University of Hamburg, where he also worked as Research and Teaching Assistant.

2019

Kaitlyn Henderson

Kaitlyn Henderson is a Senior Research Advisor with Oxfam America’s US Domestic Policy Program. Previously, Dr. Henderson was a Brent Scowcroft Award Fellow with the Aspen Strategy Group, which focused on national security and foreign policy through Track II diplomacy. Henderson completed her PhD in modern Latin American history at Tulane University, where she received the Peter T. Cominos Memorial Award for her dissertation work. During her graduate work, her research focused on race and politics in twentieth-century Cuba. She is an affiliate of the Instituto Cubano de Investigación Cultural Juan Marinello and has worked closely with the Fundación Nicolás Guillén and the Instituto de Historia de Cuba. Dr. Henderson received her BA from Macalester College. 

Adriana Ray

Adriana Ray is a graduate student at Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service in the Security Studies Program where she is studying international security with an emphasis on East Asia. She became a Scowcroft Fellow following a national security internship with Senator Doug Jones (D-AL) where she was a member of the Senator’s Senate Armed Services Committee team. Prior to that, Adriana served as a Congressional and Media Relations intern at The National Bureau of Asian Research and ran a small consulting firm, Nu Laoban (女老板) LLC. She has a degree in political science and China studies from Furman University and a graduate certificate in Chinese language study from Tsinghua University in Beijing.

Tyler Headley

Tyler Headley is a Research Analyst at the Advisory Board Company. He was previously a Brent Scowcroft Award Fellow at the Aspen Strategy Group and a Research Associate at Chen & Cragen, a communications firm in Seattle, where he was a speechwriter for private sector executives. In college, Tyler was a research assistant, a member of the debate team, and captain of the rowing team. He was also an elected officer of Student Government. Tyler won multiple student essay awards and his publishing credentials include Foreign Affairs, The National Interest, and The Diplomat, in addition to peer-reviewed journals including The American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene. He graduated summa cum laude from New York University Abu Dhabi with a degree in Political Science.

2018

Brian Hopkins

Brian Hopkins served as Brent Scowcroft Award Fellow in 2018. Following the fellowship, he joined the Aspen Institute Congressional Program, where he supported weekly scholar breakfasts and several annual international conferences for Members of Congress. He received a Bachelor’s Degree from Duke University, and is currently pursuing a J.D. at American University’s Washington College of Law, where he hopes to continue to foster his passion for international issues and national security in law school and beyond.

Megan Lamberth

Megan Lamberth joined the Aspen Strategy Group as a recent graduate of the Bush School of Government & Public Service at Texas A&M University. As a Master of International Affairs student, Megan concentrated in U.S. foreign policy and middle eastern studies. During graduate school, Megan worked as a graduate research assistant focusing on U.S. presidential decision-making. She also worked as a research associate at the WomanStats Project, assessing the link between the behavior of states and the security of women within them. When she wasn’t reading for her classes, Megan served as an Ambassador with the Bush School Ambassadors program and as a student representative to the student government association.

Her passion for the Middle East region stems from her first Arabic language immersion in Jordan in 2014.  Over the past few summers, Megan worked as an intern with the U.S. Department of State and the World Affairs Council of Dallas/Fort Worth. Megan graduated from Sam Houston State University with her B.A. in Criminal Justice in December 2015. Megan intends to use her academic and professional experience to formulate and support U.S. foreign policy relating to the Middle East.

2017

Kajsa Mayo

Kajsa Mayo joined the Aspen Strategy Group as a recent graduate from Harvard College. Over the past several summers, Kajsa has worked as an intern in research roles at a range of institutions, from academia to business management and political consulting. She completed her B.A. in philosophy, where she primarily focused on ethics and metaphysics. Originally prompted by a love of Slavic and Russian literature, Kajsa completed four years of intensive Russian language study while in college. She is also an avid student of foreign affairs and political economy, spurred in part by her desire to better understand the broader Eurasian region and its role in the world. Kajsa is originally from Tacoma, Washington, where she grew up backpacking, skiing, and sailing. She is also enthusiastic about coffee, volunteering, and spontaneous road trips.  Kajsa intends to return to academic philosophy in the coming years, although she will retain a strong interest in and remain engaged with foreign policy and US-Russia relations.

Ariel Fanger

Ariel Fanger joined the Aspen Strategy Group upon her graduation from Emory University. Last summer, Ariel worked as an intern at the U.S. Department of State where she supported the incoming Ambassador to Chad, wrote a spotlight piece for State Magazine on the Professional Development Unit’s recent reforms, and volunteered at both the 2016 Counter ISIL Conference and the 2016 Threats to Religious and Ethnic Minorities Under ISIL Conference. She also worked as an intern at the Massachusetts Treasury where she conducted policy research on the wage gap and coal industry divestment. Ariel graduated from Emory in May 2017 with a B.A. in Political Science. At Emory, she was involved in Emory College Council, Emory Tour Guides, Pi Sigma Alpha political science honor society, and Alpha Delta Pi sorority. Ariel grew up in Needham, MA, and is an avid student of Arabic, Middle East studies, and U.S. foreign policy. In her free time, she enjoys cycling, playing tennis, traveling and trying all of of the wonderful brunch spots in D.C. In the future, she hopes to earn a master’s degree in conflict resolution or foreign service, and ultimately pursue a career in Middle East policy.

Anand Raghuraman

Anand Raghuraman joined the Aspen Strategy Group after completing his year abroad as a Fulbright grantee in Turkey. His previous professional experience includes internships with the Atlantic Council and U.S. State Department, where he researched Japanese energy security and covered Asia-Pacific defense issues. Anand graduated from Duke University in 2015 with a B.A. in Political Science and published research analyzing the shale revolution’s impact on America’s Middle East strategy. He also worked as a research assistant to Dr. Bruce Jentleson and served as the undergraduate chair of the Duke Program in American Grand Strategy. Anand grew up in Sammamish, WA and is an avid student of South Asian history, culture, and religion. He enjoys hiking and skiing, listening to qawwali music, and rooting for the Seattle Mariners. He plans to pursue a career at the intersection of diplomacy and business and hopes to advance U.S.-India relations.

2016

Rose Butchart

Rose Butchart joined the Aspen Strategy Group in January 2016. Her previous experience includes work in research and policy at the Kurdistan Regional Government and the Democratic Progress Institute. She earned her MSc in International Relations Theory at the London School of Economics, where she studied diplomacy, security, and governance. Her bachelor’s degrees are from the University of Iowa, where she double-majored in International Studies and the university’s famed writing program while also completing a French minor. She has also studied Russian.

Daniel Ku 

Daniel Ku joined the ASG after serving as a graduate student assistant to the Johnson Institute for Responsible Leadership at the Graduate School of Public and International Affairs (GSPIA), University of Pittsburgh. Last summer, he traveled to Singapore after being accepted as the Gerald Segal Research Intern at the International Institute for Strategic Studies-Asia (IISS-Asia) where he carried out an independent research project on the history of alliance behavior in Northeast Asia during the 20th century while assisting with the logistical operations of IISS-Asia’s annual track I Asian Defense Summit, the Shangri-La Dialogue. During summer 2014, he also served as a Governor’s Fellow for the Secretariat of Public Safety and Homeland Security within the Office of the Governor of Virginia. Daniel recently graduated from the University of Pittsburgh GSPIA and earned a Master’s of Public and International Affairs (MPIA) in Security and Intelligence Studies. He also holds a dual degree in Political Science with a concentration in International Relations and Homeland Security & Emergency Preparedness from Virginia Commonwealth University. Daniel was born and raised in Fairfax, Virginia and loves spending time with his friends and family, will eat just about anything that is edible, and hopes to watch Lebron James play at least once his life.

Calli Obern

Calli Obern joined the Aspen Strategy Group as a Brent Scowcroft Award Fellow. During her undergraduate studies, she independently researched the use of social media to organize in Brazil during the FIFA World Cup 2014. She also spent a semester in Shanghai, China where she studied Mandarin and worked with a non-profit focused on sustainability efforts in China. She participated in the Occidental United Nations Program, where she served as an attaché at the United Kingdom Mission to the UN. At the UN, she reported on human rights and humanitarian affairs, assisted with events for the UK Mission during UN Ministerial Week, and prepared sessions for the UK presidency of the Security Council. To culminate her studies, she produced a comprehensive honors thesis on the case of food security as a tool for sociopolitical control under the Chinese Communist Party. In the future, she hopes to learn several additional foreign languages and pursue an advanced degree to research the impact of climate change on national security. She earned her B.A. from Occidental College in Los Angeles in May 2016, where she studied diplomacy and world affairs, with a minor in Chinese Studies.

Carolina Ponzeto

Carolina Ponzeto joined the Aspen Strategy Group in June 2016 and is looking forward to be a part of the annual Summer Workshop. She comes to ASG from the Center for Security Studies at Georgetown University, where she worked as a Media fellow. In that role, she was responsible for developing and managing all communication platforms for the Center, including their website, student blog and social media accounts. During the summer of 2015 she was also a recipient of the Georgetown Summer Fellowship and spent 10 weeks in Europe studying how the EU has changed the way European citizens view nationalism. Carolina earned her M.A. from Georgetown University in 2016. She attended the Security Studies Program and completed her master’s thesis on Brazilian electorate behavior in times of disease outbreak. In 2014 she earned her B.A. from George Washington University as a double major in International Affairs and Psychology. Carolina is originally from Sao Paulo, Brazil, and her hobbies include watching Game of Thrones and dreaming about all the things she will buy when she wins the lottery.

2015

Anna Giorgi

Anna Giorgi joined the Aspen Strategy Group in December 2015 where worked on the U.S.-India Strategic Dialogue, the Aspen Ministers Forum, and the U.S.-China Policy Dialogue. Before ASG, Ms. Giorgi was an Advocacy Intern at the International Crisis Group, where she assisted the Middle East and North Africa Program. She also interned in the programs department of the Chicago Council on Global Affairs. Ms. Giorgi is a graduate of Brown University where she earned her B.A. in International Relations and Italian Studies. While an undergraduate, sher spent her junior year studying at the University of Bologna, Italy.  Ms. Giorgi is originally from Chicago, Illinois.

Ole Moehr

Ole Moehr was a Brent Scowcroft Award Fellow with the Aspen Strategy Group.  In 2015 he received a M.A. in International Relations from the George Washington University Elliott School of International Affairs. In his studies he focused on International Economics, Trade, and Finance. While studying at the Elliott School, Mr. Moehr worked as an intern for the Atlantic Council’s Global Business and Economics Program. From February 2014 to December 2014, he was a graduate research assistant at the Institute for Corporate Responsibility at the George Washington University School of Business. Mr. Moehr graduated with a B.A. in Governance and Public Policy from the University of Passau in Germany in 2013. In his bachelor’s thesis, he examined the implications of China’s rise for stability in the international system. During his undergrad, he interned at the German Consulate General in San Francisco as the assistant of the Consul for Cultural and Press Affairs.

Mary Clare Rigali 

Mary Clare Rigali joined the Aspen Strategy Group from Albright Stonebridge Group where she worked as an intern for Secretary Albright and her staff developing briefing materials and drafting correspondence. Mary Clare is a graduate of the University of Notre Dame where she earned her B.A. in Economics and Theology. During her undergraduate career, she studied at the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile and completed her senior thesis on the economic justice principles of liberation theology. A native of California, Mary Clare has also served as a teacher and translator in rural Honduras and in Santiago, Chile.

2014

Peter Walker Kaplan

Peter Walker Kaplan joined the ASG from BuzzFeed, the Pace Environmental Litigation Clinic, and Michael Oppenheimer’s program in Science, Technology, and Environmental Policy (STEP). As a spatial and research analyst for Oppenheimer’s STEP program, he conducted research and digitally mapped the effects of climate change on land use in South Africa. Peter is a graduate of Middlebury College, where he earned his B.A. in Geography with concentrations in Middle Eastern Policy, GIS, and Arabic. For BuzzFeed, Peter wrote foreign policy journalism as a pioneering member of BuzzFeed’s ‘World’ vertical, concerning issues of digital media, identity, and current events. Additionally, as an employee of the Pace Environmental Litigation Clinic, he served as a Chinese translator for the establishment of Waterkeeping programs across China. He also studied abroad both in Fes, Morocco and Amman, Jordan, where he interned in public radio at JUFM.

Brandon Kist

Brandon Kist joined the Aspen Strategy Group as a Brent Scowcroft Award Fellow in May 2014. Prior to joining ASG, he worked with Professor Philip Zelikow at the University of Virginia to design and administer The Modern World: Global History since 1760, the first Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) offered by UVa on the Coursera platform. While at UVa, he also researched foreign policy topics for Professor Zelikow’s future book on American foreign policy history and aided in the process of creating an undergraduate major in Global Studies. Since July 2013, he has served as a consultant to the Markle Foundation’s Initiative for America’s Economic Future in a Networked World, a role that is ongoing. Brandon received a Bachelor of Arts in Government, with a minor in History, from the University of Virginia in 2012.

Agnieszka Kurzej

Agnieszka Kurzej completed her MSc in International Relations at the London School of Economics and Political Science. Her Master’s thesis examined why Poland’s foreign and security policy is so closely aligned with that of the United States and what this means for European defense and security initiatives. Prior to pursuing her MSc, Agnieszka was a paralegal at the law firm, Cooley LLP and a research assistant for an international trade consultant. She received her Bachelor’s from Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service, where she also completed a certificate in Eurasian, Russian and East European Studies. She has spent time abroad studying at Sciences-Politiques in Dijon, France and at Uniwersytet Jagielloński in Krakow, Poland and has traveled extensively throughout Europe. She interned at the State Department and Meridian International Center, where her work focused on cultural diplomacy and the arts.

2013

Kimberly Aagaard

Kimberly Aagaard graduated from Santa Clara University, where she majored in Political Science and Spanish and minored in Economics and International Studies. She came to ASG from the Center for American Progress, where she worked on the National Security and International Policy team on issues mostly relating to China and the Middle East. During her undergraduate career, she spent a semester in an intensive Spanish-language program abroad in Salamanca, Spain. Kimberly also participated in the Washington Semester Program at American University, where she studied Peace and Conflict Resolution. As a part of the PCR seminar, she traveled to Cyprus, Greece, and Turkey and completed a research paper on the role of religious leaders and religious rhetoric in the Cyprus conflict. She also interned with the Association for Diplomatic Studies and Training on the Foreign Service Institute campus in Arlington.

Chris Cornillie

Chris Cornillie joined the Aspen Strategy Group as a Brent Scowcroft Award Fellow in June 2013 to assist with the U.S.-China Dialogue, the ASG Summer Workshop, and the U.S.-Brazil Strategic Dialogue. He came to the Aspen Institute from the Chicago Council on Global Affairs, where he interned in the Studies Department. Chris received an M.A. from the University of Chicago’s Committee on International Relations program and a B.A. from the University of Illinois in Economics and Classics. While studying abroad in Vienna, Austria, Chris conducted research at the International Atomic Energy Agency and remains interested in issues of nuclear safety and security. His masters thesis examined the transformation of Chinese arms control policies since the end of the Cold War, as well as China’s engagement with the international nuclear nonproliferation regime.

Alexis Stangarone

Alexis Stangarone joined the Aspen Strategy Group as a Brent Scowcroft Award Fellow in June 2013. She came to ASG from the German Marshall Fund of the United States, where she worked as a program assistant and intern for the Transatlantic Leadership Initiatives department. Prior to that, she spent two years teaching middle school English in South Korea. As an undergraduate at Middlebury College, where she earned a B.A. in International Studies, she interned at the U.S. Consulate in Naples, Italy and led a student run symposium that focused on the nuclear situation and human rights in North Korea.

2012

Khaled Fayyad

Khaled Fayyad is a graduate of the University of Texas at Austin, where he majored in Government Studies and Philosophy. As an undergraduate, Khaled participated in a study abroad program on U.S-China relations and Economic policy. He traveled with Global Youth Connect—an American non-profit—to Rwanda, participated in Human rights workshops and worked with a local NGO on land reform laws. While a fellow in Washington with the University of Texas, he interned at the United Nations Information Center, where he conducted research on a wide variety of international subjects. He later interned in the Foreign Policy Communications Department at the Brookings Institution.

Kevin Jones

Kevin Jones joined the Aspen Strategy Group as a Brent Scowcroft Award Fellow in February 2012. Prior to joining ASG, Kevin researched for the policy team of Elizabeth Warren’s campaign for U.S. Senate in Massachusetts. He finished the MPhil in International Relations at St. Antony’s College, Oxford after having studied Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations at Harvard. Kevin has spent time studying in Yemen and France, and has traveled widely in the Middle East.