Students & Alumni

“I treated my job search like a full-time job.” These are the words of IWP student James,* who began his M.A. program this January. He connected with IWP Director of Career Services Derrick Dortch on December 6, 2019, with a goal of finding a job by the end of February 2020. On February 10, having…

In this interview, we speak with Curt Klun, a Senior Policy Analyst at the Department of Justice (DOJ) and a candidate for IWP’s Doctor of Statecraft and National Security. Curt has joined the doctoral program at a key time in his career as he works to formulate an integrated strategic approach to fighting transnational organized…

“Increasingly, bad actors are targeting small businesses so that they can start getting access to a large client or customer… they reel in one business and then use that information to attack an even bigger fish.” – Chris Phair (’13) Chris Phair (’13) has founded a new company, Level Up Cybersecurity LLC, which aims to…

After beginning his career at the Royal Bank of Canada, Peter Sulick (’11) found himself wishing he had a career path that was more personally fulfilling. But what was his passion? He determined to figure it out. In the meantime, he left the banking industry and started doing something completely different: he began working at…

In a recent interview with TSA, an Algerian news service, Dr. Zak Allal, an IWP Non-Resident Scholar and alumnus, commented on the start-up ecosystem in Algeria and provided an assessment of Algeria’s new president’s innovation policy. Read more

On Friday, January 31st, six alumni and two students who work or have worked at the Pentagon gathered to share career advice with a group of IWP students. The panel discussed several career paths for students who are interested in beginning or continuing a career in national security. The panel contained students and alumni who…

Rachel Bauman (’18) – currently a policy advisor on the Helsinki Commission – began a lifelong interest in Russia after writing a paper for her history class in her freshman year of high school. “I had to do a report on Lenin, and I got really interested in Soviet history and the Russian language,” she…

Soon after developing an interest in national security affairs in college and beginning to pursue an M.A. in Statecraft and National Security Affairs at IWP, Caleb Crim (’16) found himself in a job creating intelligence products for the highest levels of government, including the White House, diplomatic officials, defense officials, and other government agencies. This…

The Estonian Ministry of Foreign Affairs awarded IWP M.A. candidate James A. Rice a certificate of appreciation for promoting understanding of Estonia in the U.S. in November 2018. This past December, the Ambassador of Estonia, Amb. Jonatan Vseviov, presented this award to James in person. In his work as Legislative Director for Senator Chuck Grassley,…

On November 7th, the IWP Student Veterans Association hosted a Student Roundtable discussion with Major General James E. Taylor. At this small, informal event, General Taylor spoke with IWP students about his experiences as the CJ3 Director of Operations, Combined Joint Interagency Task Force in Afghanistan. General Taylor is now serving as Director of the…