BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//jEvents 2.0 for Joomla//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York X-LIC-LOCATION:America/New_York BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:19700308T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=2SU END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:19701101T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=11;BYDAY=1SU END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:fda78b9bff1ff89dface56fbd1ae9efb246 CATEGORIES:Events SUMMARY:Federal Service: Navigating Applications and Landing Your First Job DESCRIPTION:
Federal Service: Navigating Applications What does a federal international affairs career look like, and w hat is the applications process like? Learn about different pathways to pub lic service, how to decipher USAJobs, and what opportunities exist both in Washington and overseas across agencies. Join us to hear from: Jennifer Hawkins, USAID Senior Women, Peace, and Security AdvisorErin McGown , Department of Justice Program Analyst Lindsay Rodman, Leadership Council for Women in National Security Executive Director Sharon Swabb, George Washington U niversity’s Elliott School Career Coach Kim Kah nhauser Freeman, Women's Foreign Policy Group Executive Director (Moderator) Jennifer Hawkins is a Senior Women, Peace, and Security Advisor in USAID's Bureau of Conf
lict, Prevention, and Stabilization (CPS). She joined USAID in 2014 as a De
mocracy Fellow. Prior to joining USAID, Jennifer served as a Gender and Pol
icy Advisor at the State Department's Bureau of Conflict Stabilization Oper
ations, where she led the implementation of the Bureau's Gender Policy and
the National Plan on Women, Peace, and Security. In 2013, she served as the
first US secondee to Justice Rapid Response, an intergovernmental organiza
tion in Geneva, where she worked to increase multilateral diplomacy on atro
city prevention and develop a global "rapid response" capacity within Rule
of Law and Sexual Gender-Based Violence. During her five years at the State
Department, she also served in the Bureau of West African Affairs as Desk
Officer for Burkina Faso and Niger, and as the Special Assistant in the Bur
eau of African Affairs. Jennifer holds a BS from Syracuse and a MSW, with a
concentration in children and policy, from Howard, and is currently a Doct
oral candidate at the University of Southern California. Erin McGown joined the Department of Justice in March as a Program Analyst on the Afri ca team in the Office of Overseas Prosecutorial Development, Assistance, an d Training (OPDAT). Before joining DoJ, Erin served in the Peace Corps in t he Republic of Georgia, where she advised a small NGO focused on local demo cracy development; authored, implemented, and closed out a Let Girls Learn grant for a Peace Corps-led camp for youth; and designed and implemented tr ainings related to gender equality. Erin also served as a Communications an d Outreach Program Specialist at USAID, which she joined as an intern. She also interned at the Department of State's Office of UN Political Affairs, the German Marshall Fund and the Women's Foreign Policy Group. Prior to mov ing to DC, she worked for the City of Boise Mayor’s Office and South Sound YMCA in Olympia, Washington. Erin holds a Masters in International Affairs at the George Washington University’s Elliott School and a BA from the Univ ersity of Idaho in International Studies and German. Lindsay Rodman is Executive Director of the Leadership Council for Women in National Security (LCWINS). She began her career as a n associate at Arnold & Porter LLP. Lindsay then joined the Marine Corp s and served as a judge advocate for eight years, including deployment to A fghanistan, serving as Deputy Legal Counsel to the Chairman of the Joint Ch iefs of Staff, and as a White House Fellow at the National Security Council . After transitioning into the Reserves, Lindsay was a political appointee in the Pentagon, serving first as the Special Assistant to the Under Secret ary of Defense for Personnel & Readiness and then as the Senior Advisor , International Humanitarian Policy in the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Policy. Prior to joining LCWINS, Lindsay was a Council on Fore ign Relations International Affairs Fellow in Canada and worked at Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America. Lindsay remains an officer in the Marine Corps Reserve. She is a graduate of Harvard Law School, the Kennedy School, and Duke. Sharon Swabb is a Career Coach at George Washington U niversity’s Elliott School, where she manages GW's mentorship program with USIP and the Elliott School's graduate-level, cross-cultural exchange progr am with the Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Prior to arriving at GW, Sharon served as an Associate Director in the White House Presidential Pers onnel Office, where she contributed to the recruitment, placement, and rete ntion of political appointees at national security agencies. Previously, sh e was a Press Assistant in the Office of Public Affairs at the Department o f Homeland Security. Before her work in the Federal Government, she was a r esearch fellow at GovLoop, served as a program assistant for the DC semeste r programs of the University of Georgia and NYU, was a volunteer staff memb er for Young Professionals in Foreign Policy. Sharon is a member of the Rob ertson Foundation for Government. She holds a BA in International Affairs a nd Spanish from the University of Georgia and a Master’s in Pacific Interna tional Affairs from UC San Diego. Ki
m Kahnhauser Freeman is the executive director of the Women's Fore
ign Policy Group, a non-profit organization which promotes women’s leadersh
ip and amplifies their voices in international affairs. Since joining the W
FPG team in 2006, she has held roles of increasing responsibility supportin
g the organization’s global issues programs, membership outreach, mentoring
initiatives, and strategic development. Previously, Kim was a Fulbright te
aching fellow in Tirol, Austria, and researched public housing for the Cent
er for Social Justice Research, Teaching and Service in DC. Kim was a 2011
State Department Young Turkey/Young America Fellow, and holds a BS in Inter
national Politics from Georgetown and an Executive Certificate in Nonprofit
Management from Georgetown's McCourt School of Public Policy. < /strong> < /div> Thursday, July 16, 2020 | 1 to 2:15 PM EDT<
/strong> Panel Discussion: 1:00 to 1:45 PM EDT Breakout Sessions: 1:45 to 2:1 5 PM EDT Regi
stered participants will receive a Zoom link. Tickets: $10 Registration for this event is now closed. Co-sponsored with Women In Inter
national Security (WIIS) and the Robertson Foundation for Government Registration is free for WFPG and WIIS members. Learn more and join WFP G. Space is limited and advance registration is required. This summer, the Women's Fo
reign Policy Group and Women In International Security have teamed up to ho
st monthly virtual career development events, and we are pleased to be join
ed by our partner, the Robertson Foundation for Government, for this event.
Throughout our Professional Development Series, participants
will build upon important career development skills and connect with profes
sionals in international affairs. |