Splash is a Seattle-based international non-profit organization that helps provide safe water to hundreds of thousands of children living in urban poverty in Asia and Africa. Alumnus Eric Stowe (M.A., international studies, 2003), who founded Splash after working in China’s orphanages, is interviewed in the February issue of the University of Washington’s College of Arts &

By Tina Lu Special to the Jackson School One retired U.S. Air Force officer and alumnus of the Jackson School is pursuing U.S.-China relations in a unique way. In 2011, Carson Tavenner (MAIS, China, 2000) started the Tai Initiative, which helps build U.S.-China relationships between organizations at a local level. That means helping schools, corporations,