Category: Alumni Spotlight
Alumni Spotlight
March 26, 2024
Alumni Spotlight: Pursuing a Career with the United Nations through the Young Professionals Programme (YPP)
Having graduated from the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) in 2016, Patricia Weng now serves as an Associate Economic Affairs Officer under the United Nations Secretariat. Specifically, she works for the UN Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), which is one of several agencies and organizations that falls beneath the purview […]
Alumni Spotlight
December 27, 2023
Alumni Spotlight: A Conversation with a State Department Public Diplomacy Desk Officer
This quarter we connected with RFG Alumna, Allie Carter Olson (Maxwell 2016), who currently serves as the Public Diplomacy Desk Officer for Central Europe at the U.S. Department of State. Her position resides within the Press and Public Diplomacy Office in the Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs. In this position, Allie supports the work […]
Alumni Spotlight
October 6, 2023
Alumni Spotlight: Professional Growth Opportunities with the Federal Emergency Management Agency
RFG Alum, Adriel Taslim (UCSD 2018) has worked for the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) for close to three years, serving in different capacities as a Data Analyst, International Relations Specialist, and now Action Officer. This quarter, we connected with Adriel to learn more about his current work as an Action Officer within the Federal […]
Alumni Spotlight
July 20, 2023
Alumni Spotlight: Reflections of a Commercial Service Officer
This quarter we connected with RFG Alum, R. Taylor Moore (UMD, 2013), who has worked for the U.S. and Foreign Commercial Service (Commercial Service) for nearly a decade. Taylor’s career with the Commercial Service has included overseas postings in China and Mozambique and service stateside in Washington, DC and Houston, Texas. Currently, Taylor is the […]
Alumni Spotlight
March 20, 2023
Alumni Spotlight: Robyn Battles & the Impact of Federal Hiring Pathways for Recent Graduates
From the Presidential Management Fellows (PMF) Program to the Pathways Recent Graduate and GAO Professional Development Programs, the Federal Government has well established initiatives designed to recruit, train, and integrate recent graduates into the public sector. RFG Alumni have excelled at leveraging these programs to launch their careers in public service, but discovering such opportunities […]
Alumni Spotlight
December 19, 2022
Alumni Spotlight: Charlotte Volpe, Economic Officer at the State Department
A 2021 graduate of the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University, Charlotte Volpe is now serving as an Economic Officer with the U.S. Department of State. In her current position, she recently traveled to Dhaka, Bangladesh to serve in a temporary capacity with the U.S. Embassy there. In her role with […]
Alumni Spotlight
September 27, 2022
Alumni Spotlight: Stéphane Laroche (USAID in New Delhi)
A 2014 graduate of the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University, Stéphane Laroche is now serving as a Financial Management Foreign Service Officer with the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) in India. In this capacity, he provides guidance to the U.S. mission and host country government on issues related to financial, […]
Alumni Spotlight
March 28, 2021
Alumni Spotlight: William Creedon
RFG is pleased to present the first in a series of official alumni spotlights. This month we feature William Creedon (UMD SPP, ‘18), a Presidential Management Fellow at the Office of Management and Budget.
Alumni Spotlight
June 1, 2022
Alumni Spotlight: Isabelle Heilman
Isabelle Heilman (UCSD GPS, ‘19) spent her time growing up in Arizona playing outside and watching her dad as he worked for the Federal Government.
Alumni Spotlight
March 23, 2022
Alumni Spotlight: Mark Titus Hoover
When Mark Hoover was in his second year of graduate school and his financial situation changed, the Robertson Foundation for Government stepped in and enabled him to complete his degree and enter into a career of public service. “Awarded to me in my second year of graduate school after I had lost an important income […]