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Board of Directors

International Student House of Washington, DC

Officers of the Board of Directors


President
The Honorable Michele Thoren Bond
Former Assistant Secretary of State for Consular Affairs


First Vice President
Lawrence P. Dunham
Senior Associate, Protocol Partners
Former Assistant U.S. Chief of Protocol

Second Vice President
Scott Fleming
Retired Associate Vice President for Federal Relations,
Georgetown University 


Treasurer
James E. Gale
Director, Overseas Private Investment Corporation

Secretary
Tonija Hope
Director, Ralph J. Bunche International Affairs Center,
Howard University


Board of Directors

Abraham Diing Akoi
Advisor to the Executive Director, Africa Group 1 Constituency, World Bank Group

Kara M. Ariail
Partner, Holland & Knight, LLP

Lisa Barry
Retired Vice President and General Manager, Government Affairs, Chevron

Janet Blanchard
Former First Lady of Michigan
Former Associate Director, Presidential Personnel, The White House

Cynthia R. Bunton
President, CRBi, LLC
Former Director, Lantos – Humanity in Action Congressional Fellowship Program 

William J. Bonstra, FAIA, LEED AP
Founder and Managing Partner, Bonstra | Haresign ARCHITECTS

The Honorable Fletcher M. Burton
Former Head of the OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina

Lorraine Riffle Caron
Vice President, Global Government Relations at the Kimberly-Clark Company

Everett Eissenstat
Chair of the United States and Canada Global Trade at Edelman Global Advisory

Marko Grujicic
International Development at the World Bank

Larry Jennings
Co-Founding Partner at ValStone Partners

Tiia Karlén
Social Worker and semi-professional violinist

Melike Yetken Krilla
Head of International Organizations, Google

Tangley C. Lloyd 
Psychotherapist and Chair, Demarest Lloyd, Jr. Foundation

Shaista Mahmood
Philanthropist & Diplomatic Community Volunteer

Eric Melby
Partner and Co-Founder of Scowcroft Group 

Rachel Rubin
Former Director of International Student & Scholar Services, Office of Global Services,  Georgetown University

Michael Skahill
Government Relations lead at Lineage Logistics

Kate Thompson
Former Partner, Deloitte Consulting

Rachel Marino Young
Manager, Assurance Services, Ernst & Young LLP

Katherine Wilkens
Senior Advisor at National Democratic Institute

 

 


Emeritus

William H. Crocker, PhD, Anthropologist, Smithsonian Museum of Natural History

Riaz Haider, MD, Cardiologist, Former Clinical Professor of Medicine at the George Washington University, School of Medicine

China Jessup

Sherry Migdail, PhD, Former Educator, Beauvoir, The National Cathedral Elementary School

Herbert K. Schmitz*, Retired Corporate Executive


Board Associates

Annette Aburdene*

Andrew Ammerman

Adam A. Aulestia

Anne Boardman

Malcolm Benge*

Rear Admiral Susan Blumenthal Markey, MD, MPA

Lawrence Camp

Christopher H. Collins

Isabel “Didi” Cutler

Linda Donavan Harper

Putnam M. Ebinger*

Lilibet Ziller Hagel

Richard Hall

Deborah Hefferon

Sherry Mueller, PhD

Anne B. Keiser

Selby McPhee

Grace Muller Tompkins*

George S. Springsteen, Jr.

Jessica Springsteen

Sambia Shivers-Barclay M.Ed

Dan Schoonmaker

Charles R. Sherman

Charles E. Nelson

Robert Patterson

Richard Rodgers

Barbara Slavin

Betty Ann Tanner

McGrath Jean Thomas

The Honorable Philip C. Wilcox Jr.

*Past President

Annette Aburdene*

Andrew Ammerman

Adam A. Aulestia

Anne Boardman

Malcolm Benge*

Rear Admiral Susan Blumenthal Markey, MD, MPA

Lawrence Camp

Christopher H. Collins

Isabel “Didi” Cutler

Linda Donavan Harper

International Student House of Washington, DC | 1825 R Street, NW | Washington, DC 20009

International Student House of Washington, DC is a private, non-profit 501(c)3 organization located near Dupont Circle in the heart of Washington, DC. Donations will help support our mission to provide an exceptional residential experience to a highly diverse international community of graduate students, interns and visiting scholars. The House promotes inter-cultural dialogue, encourages life-long connections, and fosters global citizenship.

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