Ava Moore (Global and Regional Studies, 2024) has spent this spring as an intern at the Center for Maritime Strategy (CMS) in Washington, D.C. During her time at UW, she participated in the 2024 Transnational Task Force on the Arctic and contributed to a student-led policy report. The Task Force’s expert evaluator, Whit Fraser, suggested

This spring quarter, former Corbett Scholar Sierra Red Bow co-developed and co-taught JSIS A 280: Indigenous Encounters alongside Professor Jonathan Warren (international studies). Sierra’s experience as a UW exchange student to UBC in the fall of 2019 influenced her contributions to the course, and she shares more below: “The course I’m currently teaching with professor Jonathan

Recent alum Betz Mayer (Arctic Studies minor, 2017-2019) is now a program coordinator at the Pacific NorthWest Economic Region (PNWER), a public-private nonprofit that advocates for and advises about the economic well-being of Alaska, Washington, Idaho, Oregon and Montana, and the Canadian provinces of British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan, and the Yukon and Northwest Territories. In her

There is growing unrest within the geopolitical and geographic realms of the Arctic Circle. As world powers scramble to ensure their slice of the Arctic pie, the spotlight on highly decorated political leaders and large imposing institutions invariably drowns out the voice of an oft-overlooked but significant group, that of the students. The student voice

During my five years in Europe, I still look back to my education, experiences, and teachers in the Jackson School to help me in many challenges that I face today. Whether it was living in Moldova and volunteering in a refugee center, enrolling in and finishing my master’s studies in Sweden, attending the COP21 as

The experience I had with Canadian Studies was back in early 2013 when I signed up for the JSIS 495 Task Force on Arctic Securities. I worked with Nadine Fabbi, Canadian Studies, and Joël Plouffe, Visiting Québec Professor, and was introduced to a whole host of information about a region I knew essentially nothing about. This

Monica Chahary, 2011 Task Force Alum was awarded OAS Scholarship for Graduate Studies for the 2014-2015 academic period carried out by the Department of Human Development, Education and Culture of the Organization of American States by the Organization of American States (OAS). Chahary applied for the award to complete her her degree in Master in

Nicolas Van Tulder, International Studies major, was just awarded the Martin Lubin Undergraduate Award in the Social Sciences for his paper on Québec Arctic policy. He is the first recipient of this new award. Van Tulder’s research paper, Le Québec Total: Creating a Unifying Vision for Northern Development (Un Plan Pour Tous) argues for the creation of a

After returning from Western University in London, Ontario this past winter, I came back to Seattle inspired by the individuals I had the pleasure to meet while in Canada. Moreover, my interests in Indigenous ways of knowing the world increased. I also had the chance to become friends with two wonderful students through the Fulbright

In winter of 2011, I participated in Task Force on Arctic Governance. During a week-long research trip to Ottawa, Canada, I learned about a career in the Foreign Service. That same year, I applied for the Thomas R. Pickering Fellowship to pursue a career in the Foreign Service and to acquire Master’s degrees in Public