Work alongside local artist Amos Hummell to create mixed media wall hangings in the style of the artist himself! Ages 9-14.
The global petroleum industry is central to so many facets of life and essential to the global economy, yet it is also a strategic necessity. Crude and its many refinements...
Ambassador (ret.) Marie L. Yovanovitch is a Senior Fellow at the Institute for the Study of Diplomacy at Georgetown University. She served as U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine for three years, from 2016 to 2019. Her memoir, Lessons from the Edge, documents how she was abruptly recalled from Ukraine by the Trump administration in April 2019 and subsequently testified in the first impeachment of President Trump in November 2019.
She previously served as Ambassador to the Republic of Armenia (2008-2011) and the Kyrgyz Republic (2005-2008). From 2012-2013, Ambassador Yovanovitch was the Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for the Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs, where she was responsible for policy on European and global security issues. She also served as the Senior Advisor to the Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs from 2004-2005. She retired from the Department of State as a Career Minister in January 2020.
Ambassador Yovanovitch served as the Dean of the Language School at the Foreign Service Institute, as well as International Advisor and Deputy Commandant at the Eisenhower School for National Security and Resource Strategy at the National Defense University, where she also taught national security strategy. She began her career in Ottawa, followed by overseas assignments in Moscow, London and Mogadishu, and at the Department of State as Deputy Director of the Russian Desk.
A graduate of Princeton University with a master’s degree from the National Defense University, Ambassador Yovanovitch received numerous Presidential and State Department awards, including the Secretary’s Diplomacy in Human Rights Award.
Kent Harrington, President of Harrington Group, LLC, has more than 40 years of experience on trade, economic, defense, and foreign policy issues as a specialist on intelligence analysis and Asia. He has provided political-economic assessments and strategic counsel on government relations to leading companies in the United States, Europe, and Asia.
At the Central Intelligence Agency, Mr. Harrington led the intelligence community’s collection and research on international economic, foreign policy and national security issues, including serving four Directors of Central Intelligence as the National Intelligence Officer for East Asia. He has worked with leaders around the world in several assignments, including as CIA chief of station in Tokyo, and served as CIA’s Director of Public Affairs, playing a major role in providing greater public access to intelligence and in crisis management.
Creative lantern workshop with puppet artist Hobey Ford.
The History of the Rose Hill Plantation House PRESENTER: IVA ROBERTS WELTON Tuesday, November 8, 2022 10:00 AM – 11:30 AM USCB HH Campus Room 115 — A study of...
America 250 – The Start of the Movement for Independence PRESENTER: LEE WILWERDING Tuesday, November 8, 2022 1:30 PM – 3:00 PM USCB HH Campus Room 115 — While the...
With nearly 4 decades of international development experience, Kevin Cassidy is the Director and Representative to the Bretton Woods and Multilateral Organizations for the International Labour Organization (ILO) Office for the United States.
The Institution of Slavery: Part I – Beginnings to the Triangular Trade PRESENTER: RICHARD THOMAS Tuesday, November 15, 2022 10:30 AM – 12:00 NOON USCB HH Campus Room 115 —...
The Institution of Slavery: Part II – Colonial Demand to Abolition PRESENTER: RICHARD THOMAS Tuesday, November 22, 2022 10:30 AM – 12:00 NOON USCB HH Campus Room 115 — The...
