Fellows Cohort 2024-2025
2024-2025 Speakers
- Major General Matthew McFarlane, Commanding General, I Corps, Joint Base Lewis-McChord
- Kara Hurst, Chief Sustainability Officer, Amazon
- Ambassador Ryan Crocker, nonresident senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace; former U.S. Ambassador to Afghanistan, Iraq, Pakistan, Syria, Kuwait, and Lebanon
- Ankur Vora, Chief Strategy Officer, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
- Brian Finley, President and Chief Executive Officer, Stimson Center
- Michael Wills, President, National Bureau of Asian Research
- Ambassador Robert Holleyman, former Deputy United States Trade Representative (2014-2017)
- Amy Hogan-Burney, Vice President for Cybersecurity Policy and Protection, Microsoft
- Dr. Hiski Haukkala, Director, Finnish Institute of International Affairs
- Casey Dreier, Chief of Space Policy, The Planetary Society
Click here to read about the 2024-2025 cohort.
People
Cabrelle Abel
Microsoft
Assistant General Council
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Emeka Alozie
Transpose Platform
Director of Marketing
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Connor Bench
Pillar International Insurance
Sales Executive
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Aaron Bishop
Pacfic Northwest National Laboratory
National Security Specialist
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Andrew Bleiman
Tractive
Executive Vice President
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Veronica Bronkema
Washington State Department of Labor and Industries
Regional Administrator
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John Bruns
Former Vice President, Sales and Marketing Global Strategic Initiatives, Boeing Commercial Airplanes, Boeing
Board Treasurer
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Ladi Carr
University of Washington
Senior Director for Global Engagement
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Dawn Ehlke
Fegan Scott
Staff Attorney
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Ahmed Fahad
Highline College
Professor
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Andrew Fisher
Government of Alberta
Director of the U.S West
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Ryan Foster
Forest Stewardship Council, Investments and Partnerships
Chief of Staff and Operations
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Michele Frix
Seattle Foundation
Executive Vice President
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Josh Glasstetter
Indelible Public Relations
Principal
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Deepti Gupta
Microsoft
Senior Software Engineer
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HyeSu Han
Seattle Public Schools
Enrollment Manager
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Megan Hanna
Impinj
Executive Assistant
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Laura Hill
Perkins Coie
Partner
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Jennifer Lee Hoffman
University of Washington
Professor
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Stacey Hutchison
Audible
Director of Global Content Policy
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Sara Itani
Quixotic Labs Inc.
Founder and CEO
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Maria Cândida Langbauer
City of SeaTac
Senior Economic Development Strategist
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George Lin
ILG Legal Office
Senior Litigator
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Kathryn Peters
Boeing
Regional Director, Market Analysis
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Katie Porter
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Senior Advocacy Officer
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Kristen Pugsley-Onsager
Microsoft
Assistant General Counsel, Consumer Sales Organization
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Karuna Ramakrishnan
Amazon
Public Policy Manager, International Public Policy
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Omar Sadeque
Trident Seafoods
Sr. Vice President – International
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Captain Jason Sherman
U.S Navy
Chief of Staff, Navy Region Northwest
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Brian Smith
GBK Collective
Executive Vice President of Strategy & Insights
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Melanie St. Clair
Pacfic Northwest National Laboratory
Advisor; Group Lead, Strategic Threat Analysis, National Security Directorate
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Jeffrey Thomson
K&L Gates LLP
Associate
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Thomas Tobin
Perkins Coie LLP
Counsel
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Kaitlyn Vlahoulis
Concentric
Senior Global Security Operations Specialist
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Nicole Vukonich
National Center for APEC
Policy Director
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Brandon Willitts
Salesforce
Senior Director, Product Management
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