Pilar Rivera, BA '96, Globetrotting Entrepreneur
Pilar Rivera firmly believes that we don't belong to just one place, but are all citizens of the world. Her global perspective has taken her places both literally and figuratively in the decade since she graduated from GW. READ FULL ARTICLE

Dana Christensen, MS '06, , has written Washington Engineered, a book about how revolutionary inventions and their creators changed everyday life in Washington, D.C. Lee-Thorp worked as a mechanical and electrical engineering in Washington for 45 years. His consulting firms have completed thousands of projects; clients include the White House, the Washington Monument, and the Capitol building. Washington Engineered is available at Amazon.com or www.authorsbookshop.com/.

Jocelyn Jones Pickford, M.Ed. ’04, was recently appointed a member of the 2006-2007 class of White House Fellows, one of the most prestigious fellowships in the nation for leadership and public service. Pickford, a 9th-grade English teacher and mentor for new teachers at West Springfield High School in Fairfax County, Va., will spend the year working full time as a paid special assistant with the Internal Revenue Service (IRS).

Shawn Raymond, BA '94; Julie Hulstein, BA '94; Stefka Czarnecki Fanchi, BA '94, and many others are involved in the campaign to create a U.S. Public Service Academy. The Academy would be America's first national civilian university, a flagship institution designed to develop patriotic young leaders dedicated to public service. Modeled on the military service academies, the Public Service Academy would provide a rigorous undergraduate education followed by five years of civilian service to the U.S. For more information about the campaign, please visit http://www.uspublicserviceacadamy.org/.