Walsh Exchange 2017

The Seventh Annual Walsh Exchange 

Steering Committee Members​

• Will Liao, Co-Chair
• Brendan Keenan, Co-Chair
• Casey Wang, Director of Events and Marketing
• Olivia Ha Jung Kim, Deputy Director of Events and Marketing
• Garrett Hinck, Academic Coordinator
• Dane Alivarius, Deputy Academic Coordinator 
• Elizabeth Park, Director of Media Technology
• Erica Tsai, Director of Finance

Presenters​

• Michelle Schein, Brown University, “Nuclear Iran: An Examination of Iran’s Fallible Pursuit of Nuclear Weapons”
• Rohit Tallapragada, Georgetown University, “Momentum Shifts: How and When International Actors Can Pursue Peace in Conflict”
• Henrietta Toivanen, Claremont McKenna College, “Frontiers of Technology in Warhead Verification”
• Rachel Greene, Georgetown University, “Understanding the New Anti-Semitism: A Study of 21st Century Anti-Semitism in France and the United Kingdom”
• Lynn Lee, Georgetown University, “China and the Korean War: Crafting Memory to Serve New Objectives”
• Julian Zuzarte, St. Joseph’s University, “Institutional Impact: The Influence of Political Culture on Democratization in Haiti and El Salvador”
• Jason Fasano, George Mason University, “Democratic Great Power Support for Contested Autocracy: Understanding the U.S. Response to the Arab Spring”
• Alden Fletcher, Georgetown University, “Who Pays for Peace?”
• Timothy Yin, Georgetown University, “China & UN Peacekeeping”

​Speakers and Moderators

• Ambassador Peter Wittig, Keynote Speaker