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Fifteen members of the AU community participate in a Zoom call

First row (left to right): Sala Kurtz, SIS/BA ’22, Sakura Scholar, Kyoto, Japan; Yves Millien, CAS/BA ’22, undergraduate economics student, Bloomfield, New Jersey; Kim Araya, director, AU Conference and Guest Services, Crofton, Maryland; Lamar Weir, SOE/MEd ’21, field representative, United States House of Representatives, Detroit, Michigan; Adeen Postar, director and professor of practice, Pence Law Library, WCL, North Bethesda, Maryland

Second row: Becky Pilipowskyj, SOE/BA ’13, SOE/MAT ’14, second-grade teacher, Charlottesville Catholic School, Charlottesville, Virginia; Julie Butcher Pezzino, SOC/BA ’03, executive director, Children’s Museum and Theatre of Maine, Portland, Maine; Fernando Laguarda, professorial lecturer and faculty director, Program on Law and Government, WCL, Washington, DC; Michael Harold, SPA/BA ’07, SIS/BA ’07, director of communications, Seattle Department of Transportation, Seattle, Washington; Reuben Jacobson, director, Education Policy and Leadership program and senior professorial lecturer, SOE, Washington, DC

Third row: Andy Phelps, professor, School of Communication and director, AU Game Lab, Christchurch, New Zealand; Jeff Bachman, senior professorial lecturer and chair, Ethics, Peace, and Human Rights program, SIS, Rockville, Maryland; Karen Garcia, financial aid counselor, AU, Washington, DC; Hriyanka Shah, co-organizer, Youth Feed India, Mumbai, India; Angela Chen, SPA/BA ’21, 2019-20 AUSG president, Washington, DC

Fourth row: Tia Jackson, SIS/BA ’20, 2019-20 chair, AU Club Council, Miami, Florida; Rafael Cestero, SIS/BA ’21, member, President’s Council on Diversity and Inclusion, Westfield, New Jersey; Mike Harvey, director, Audio Technology program, Department of Performing Arts, CAS, Annandale, Virginia; Michael Meneer, CAS/MA ’04, president and CEO, Pacific Salmon Foundation, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada; John Morada, CAS/BS ’00, vice president, Agile Stacks, Inc., and adjunct instructor, Department of Computer Science, CAS, Dublin, California

twenty members of the AU community participate in a Zoom call

First row (left to right): Taylor Burnett, WCL/JD ’19, counsel, Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, US Senate, Wimberley, Texas; Donta Council, postdoctoral fellow, Department of Public Administration and Policy, SPA, Arlington, Virginia; Israel Cano, assistant director of advancement communications, AU Office of Development and Alumni Relations, Washington, DC; Aaron Goldstein, SOC/BA ’02, and Jessica (Leiken) Goldstein, SIS/BA ’02, Gahanna, Ohio; Aminata Sy, SPA/MPP ’21, US Department of State Rangel International Affairs Fellow, Washington, DC

Second row: Haley Samsel, SOC/BA ’19, SIS/BA ’19, reporter, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Plano, Texas; Josh Wilens, Kogod/BSBA ’22, founder and president, AU Consulting Club, Wilmette, Illinois; Sonya Grier, professor, Department of Marketing, Kogod, Washington, DC; Sharon Weiner, associate professor, SIS, Princeton, New Jersey; Bennet Kelley, SPA/BS ’84, founder, Internet Law Center, Santa Monica, California

Third row: Megan Ross, SIS/BA ’20, 2019-20 chief of staff, AU Model United Nations Conference, Minneapolis, Minnesota; Matt Dyjack, SIS/MA ’16, program manager, 4K for Cancer, Ulman Foundation, Baltimore, Maryland; Valentina Fernandez, SPA/BA ’19, SOC/BA ’19, English language arts teacher, Whittier Middle School, and Teach for America corps member, San Antonio, Texas; Sarah Schumacher, SIS/BA’02, SOC/BA ’02, art director, Dallas Observer, St. Louis, Missouri; Jocelyn Hill, director, recreational sports and fitness, AU, Silver Spring, Maryland 

Fourth row: Aurel Npounengnong, CAS/BS ’22, lab technician, Department of Physics, CAS, Washington, DC; John Verderame, WCL/JD ’21, editor in chief, American University Law Review, Washington, DC; Jennifer Reid-Burrell, SIS/MA ’13, research analyst, academic HR and assessment, Office of the Dean, University of Toronto Mississauga; Toronto, Ontario, Canada; Ali Rasoulinejad, SPA/MA ’13, chief of staff, New York City Council Rep. I. Daneek Miller (D-Queens), Queens, New York; Sylvia Burwell, president, AU, Washington, DC 

twenty members of the AU community participate in a Zoom call

First row (left to right): Bernard Reeves, SOE/EdD ’22, assistant dean, SEED School of Miami, Miami, Florida; Shep Harris, SPA/BA ’94, SOC/BA ’94, mayor, Golden Valley, Minnesota; Tamir Harper, SOC/BA ’22, editor in chief, The Blackprint, and executive director and cofounder, UrbEd Inc., Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Michelle Stinson, assistant director of undergraduate admissions, AU, Germantown, Maryland; Javier Bronfman, SPA/PhD ’14, academic director, master’s in economics and public policy, and professor, School of Government, Adolfo Ibáñez University, Santiago, Chile

Second row: Jack Rasmussen, CAS/MFA ’75, CAS/MA ’83, CAS/PhD ’95, director and curator, AU Museum at Katzen Arts Center, Bethesda, Maryland; Anne Livingston, registered nurse, AU Student Health Center, Washington, DC; Gautham Rao, associate professor, Department of History, CAS, Silver Spring, Maryland; Luciana Pardo, Kogod/BSBA ’21, marketing intern, Excelicon, Washington, DC; Jarryd Delaney, SPA/BA ’19, admissions counselor, AU, Westfield, New Jersey

Third row: Malini Ranganathan, assistant professor, SIS, faculty fellow, Metropolitan Policy Center, SPA, and interim faculty director, Antiracist Research and Policy Center, Rockville, Maryland; Christopher Salone, associate director, student account operations, AU, Upper Marlboro, Maryland; Maryam Omari, CAS alumna, executive dean, School of Business and Law, Edith Cowan University, Perth, Australia; Jason Mollica, professorial lecturer, SOC, Rockville, Maryland; Camile Jiménez, SIS/MA ’18, grants specialist, Los Angeles Mayor’s Office of Public Safety, Los Angeles, California

Fourth and fifth rows: Traci Dennis, director of undergraduate teacher education and professorial lecturer, SOE, Washington, DC; Tim Schmeling, WCL/JD’21, president, WCL Student Bar Association, Washington, DC; Jennifer Baron Knowles, associate director, Kay Spiritual Life Center, AU, Arlington, Virginia; Mike Mastrota, arboretum manager, AU, Fairfax, Virginia; Jennifer Rinker, CAS/PhD ’10, assistant professor, Department of Neuroscience, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, South CarolinaDonna Dietz, senior professorial lecturer, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, CAS, Takoma Park, Maryland