Jackson School Journal (JSJ): Let’s start by learning a little more about you. Could you tell us about your academic career? Bessner: In college I went to Columbia and I interned at the Council on Foreign Relations my senior year, which got me oriented towards US foreign policy. I majored in modern European history and

Jackson School Journal (JSJ): What first led you to pursue a State Department career? What was your first position? Fowler: When I was in high school I lived abroad with AFS (The American Field Service), and that experience opened my horizons beyond the United States. I became very interested in learning more about international affairs