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Foreign Policy Interrupted’s Fellowship program is targeted to diversifying voices and opinions in the foreign policy space. The program has two core components:

– An educational module that includes media training, a guide to understanding the media, and brand building

– A non-resident “externship” with a major media outlet. Fellows will work with a given outlet and editor to better understand the inner workings of a news organization; and to develop the fellow’s portfolio and voice around her expertise

The educational module runs for six weeks online, for one-hour each week. Our fourth fellowship cycle will begin in early 2017.

At the conclusion of the module, fellows will be matched with an editor and/or producer with whom she’ll work to develop her expertise for print and/or on-camera appearances. This “externship” will run at minimum for one month up to three months. Previous fellows have been matched with editors at Foreign Policy, Foreign Affairs, Reuters, World Policy Journal, CNN, The Atlantic, and the Financial Times.

Qualifications

FPI’s Fellows Program is open to women 26 and older with a clear commitment and passion for foreign policy and international affairs.

This is not a program for those “breaking into” foreign policy. While we welcome early-career fellows, this program is best-suited to mid-career and late-career foreign policy experts. The program is open to academics, entrepreneurs, journalists, students, and business professionals. The program is open to both US citizens and non-US citizens, fluent in English.

Upon the start of the fellowship in early 2017, applicants must be available for six weeks, for an hour each week.

A commitment to foreign policy is not an interest or hobby, but demonstrated engagement in foreign policy matters and/or a foreign policy matter. Demonstrated engagement is work in the field.

Applicants for an FPI Fellowship ideally have at least three years of full-time professional experience. For interruptors on an academic track, applicants must have completed their master’s degree.

While we encourage applicants to have already authored pieces or appeared as commenters on radio or television, such experience is not required. Achievement and a demonstrated interest are, however.

Which all goes to say: Lean in. Show us what you got.

Application process

Applications for our fourth fellowship program close December 21, 2016. Application materials include:

– CV, citing presence on social media, if applicable (#2016)
– A video clip, no more than a minute, of you commenting on your expertise. This video should be recorded specifically for the application. Videos shot on mobile devices are fine.
– In no more than 1000 words, tell us how an FPI fellowship fits into your career path
– Two published writing samples
– List two people who can speak about your qualifications and provide their contact information
– Send materials to [email protected]

Questions? Hit us up at [email protected].

 

Meet our third class of interruptors

 

Severine Autesserre is an Associate Professor of Political Science, specializing in international relations and African studies, at Barnard College, Columbia University. She works on civil wars, peacebuilding, peacekeeping, humanitarian aid, and African politics.

Severine has written two award-winning books and a series of articles. Her latest book, Peaceland: Conflict Resolution and the Everyday Politics of International Intervention (Cambridge University Press, 2014), examines how everyday practices, habits, and narratives influence the effectiveness of peacebuilding interventions on the ground. Her previous book, The Trouble with the Congo: Local Violence and the Failure of International Peacebuilding (Cambridge University Press, 2010), focuses on local violence and international intervention in the eastern part of the Democratic Republic of Congo.

Before becoming an academic,Severine worked for humanitarian and development agencies in Afghanistan, Kosovo, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Nicaragua and India. She holds a post-doctorate from Yale University, a Ph.D. in political science from New York University, and master’s degrees in international relations and political science from Columbia University and Science-Po. 

Fun-fact: Severine has been a vegetarian for 17 years, and she often has trouble getting enough proteins when conducting fieldwork. So once, when she was spending a year in Congo, she travelled back from Europe with a suitcase full of Tofu.

 

Kamissa Camara is a Senior Program Officer for West and Central Africa at the National Endowment for Democracy. She is also a West Africa instructor at the Foreign Service Institute where she trains U.S. diplomats before their deployment to West Africa. 

Her expertise includes democracy promotion, civil-military dialogue, rebel military integration, and electoral management in francophone sub-Saharan Africa.

Kamissa’s articles and opinion pieces have appeared in the Washington Post, Aljazeera America, Good Governance Africa, World Politics Review, African Arguments and The Broker Online among others. She is a regular guest on France24 and Voice of America French and English TV and radio programs.

She holds an M.A. in International Development and a B.A. in International Relations from France. She is currently pursuing an M.A in Political Management at George Washington University. Finally, Kamissa is a native French and English speaker and sometimes forgets she also speaks German.

Fun-fact: Kamissa is probably the biggest admirer of the Queen of Sheba and in her spare time, reads all books on and about her. “The Queen of Sheba was beautiful and fierce,” she says. “She is the Queen of Interruptors.”

 

 

Kate Himes is a muddy boots science diplomat. Her expertise includes Central and South-Central Asia, international development, and science policy. More specifically, she has helped countries utilize science and technology (S&T) to address myriad development challenges, including water, climate change, conservation, and science capacity.

As an American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Fellow, Kate served as Regional Science Advisor at the U.S. Agency for International Development Mission to Central Asia, where she supported S&T in five countries of the former Soviet Union: Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan, and USAID Afghanistan specifically on water. While a AAAS Fellow based at USAID Washington, she led scientific and engineering partnerships between the U.S. and Pakistan; built entrepreneurship programs for researchers in Morocco, Pakistan, and Southern African countries; and supported USAID missions through the use of S&T. Kate worked across USAID and the U.S. Department of State to integrate S&T approaches into development and diplomacy, both bilaterally and multilaterally. Prior to her time in Washington, Kate served as Special Assistant to the Provost at the University of Minnesota.

Currently, Kate is an Adjunct Professor in the Master of Public Administration Program at The Evergreen State College and an independent consultant. She received her Ph.D. in Neuroscience from the University of Minnesota, MBA in Entrepreneurship from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and B.S. in Neuroscience from the University of Minnesota. Her dissertation focused on development in several invertebrate species, including the honeybee.

Fun-fact: Kate has run across the Grand Canyon and back in a single day. She also holds a Ph.D. Minor in Women’s Studies, with emphasis on the Feminist Philosophy of Science.

 

Maria Snegovaya is a PhD candidate at Columbia University, studying the sources of support for the populist parties in the Eastern Europe. Her PhD thesis compares the cases of Hungary and Czech Republic and explains the popularity of Hungary’s radical right Jobbik party as a function of the economic convergence of the two mainstream parties (MSZP and Fidesz) and lack of the radical left alternative. During her PhD program Maria collaborated with the Institute for the Study of War, the Brookings Institution, the Eurasia Group and the Freedom House.

At the same time, Maria regularly travels to Russia and Ukraine, runs a column at Russia’s Vedomosti, a business daily, and regularly contributes to The Washington Post, The Huffington Post, The National Interest, The New Republic, and The American Interest. 

Maria’s main journalistic focus is Russia’s domestic and foreign policy, nuances of its political system and dynamics of contemporary autocracies, Ukraine’s domestic situation, and the Russian-Ukrainian conflict.

Maria also holds a MA and MPhil in Political Science from Columbia University an a Candidate Degree in Economics and a BA in Economics and Finance from Higher School of Economics.

Fun-fact: When she was 21 years old, she decided to sky dive from a Russian plane.

 

Meet our second class of interruptors

Yolande Bouka is a Research Associate for the Institute of Security Studies (ISS) in the Conflict Prevention and Risk Analysis Division. Her expertise includes African politics and security, transitional justice, and conflict prevention. More specifically, she specializes on domestic and foreign policy dynamics in the Great Lakes Region and East Africa and how these dynamics impact stability in the region. She is also interested in the role of women in military institutions and non-state armed groups.

She has recently taken a leave from ISS to take up Fulbright Scholar Grant in Namibia to investigate the role of female combatants in the Namibian liberation struggle against South Africa. This grant is part of what she hopes to be a larger project on women’s agency in non-state armed groups. Yolande holds a doctoral degree in International Relations from American University’s School of International Service and a master’s degree in Diplomacy and International Relations from Seton Hall University.

Fun-fact: Recently, she took the youngest of her three children on a research trip and nursed the four-month old through most of her interviews with various political actors, including a former prime minister. The report of this field trip is forthcoming. #MotherhoodInterrupted

 

 

Cori Crider heads the Abuses in Counter-Terrorism team at international NGO Reprieve. A U.S. lawyer, Cori has spent a decade investigating and litigating the most serious violations of the ‘war on terror’: Guantánamo, CIA rendition and torture, and civilian deaths from drone attacks in undeclared war zones.

She devised Reprieve’s challenge to abusive force-feeding at Guantánamo, which resulted in the first disclosure of videotapes of the process. She also developed Reprieve’s project investigating the drone war in Yemen: her team exposed key details of a drone strike on a wedding convoy, and brought a Yemeni man whose innocent relatives died in an attack to Washington, where he met legislators and officials in the National Security Council. She represents two Libyan families whom U.S. and British intelligence ‘rendered’ to the dungeons of dictator Muammar Gaddafi. She’s a graduate of the University of Texas and Harvard Law School.

Fun-fact: A few years back Cori nearly went to Mogadishu by accident because she was engrossed in a book and failed to change planes. Spoiler alert: The pilot stopped on the runway just before takeoff and shooed his clueless passenger out the back of the jet.

 

 

Elina Ribakova is a Fellow in the Institute of Global Affairs (IGA) at the London School of Economics and Political Science. She is responsible for a number of policy initiatives, ranging from global financial architecture to migration.

She is a co-founder of Migration Matters, an online resource on migration. She has over 15 years of experience in both the financial industry and policy making. Over the last seven years she held senior roles in economic research and strategy at a hedge fund, an institutional real asset manager, and a large international bank. Prior to moving to the financial industry, Elina worked as an economist at the International Monetary Fund (1999 – 2008).

She is a graduate of the University of Warwick and now lectures on international macroeconomics with policy and finance applications.

Fun-fact: Elina is a voracious reader of 20th century military books. “While at university I failed to show up at an exam as I was reading a spy book through the night, exam time and beyond…”

 

 

 

Irene S. Wu, Ph.D. is the author of Forging Trust Communities: How Technology Changes Politics. The book shows that technology changes politics when it builds trust, not when it amplifies the noise. The case studies range from the telegraph in China and Brazil to social media in India and the Middle East.

Irene teaches at Georgetown University’s Communications, Culture, and Technology program. She has degrees from Harvard and Johns Hopkins and held fellowships in Taipei, Beijing, and Tokyo. Her first book From Iron Fist to Invisible Hand: the Uneven Path of Telecom Reform in China was published by Stanford University in 2009.

Fun-fact (#ProTip): Quiz her on art history when she staffs the info desk at the Smithsonian and follow her tweets on tech stats and garden views as she strolls the world.

 

 

 

 

Meet our inaugural class of interruptors

 

Mira Rapp Hooper is a fellow with the CSIS Asia Program and director of the CSIS Asia Maritime Transparency Initiative. Her expertise includes Asia security issues, deterrence, nuclear strategy and policy, and alliance politics. She was previously a Stanton Nuclear Security Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations. Her Ph.D. dissertation, “Absolute Alliances: Extended Deterrence in International Politics,” is a study of the formation and management of so-called nuclear umbrella alliances. Dr. Rapp Hooper’s academic and policy writings have appeared in Political Science Quarterly, Security Studies, the National Interest, Foreign Affairs, The Washington Post, and The Washington Quarterly, among others. She holds a B.A. in history from Stanford University and an M.A., M.Phil., and Ph.D. in political science from Columbia University. Dr. Rapp Hooper has been a CNAS Next Generation National Security Fellow and is currently a David Rockefeller Fellow of the Trilateral Commission.

Fun-fact: One of Mira’s favorite possessions is an original, signed copy of the Smyth Report– the first official U.S. government history of the Manhattan Project, written at the end of World War II. 

 

 

 

Manal Omar is the acting vice president for the Middle East and Africa Center at the United States Institute for Peace. Previously, she was regional program manager for the Middle East for Oxfam – Great Britain, where she responded to humanitarian crises in Palestine and Lebanon. Omar has extensive experience in the Middle East. She worked with Women for Women International as regional coordinator for Afghanistan, Iraq and Sudan. She also served as an international advisor for the Libya Stabilization Team in Benghazi in 2011. Omar lived in Baghdad from 2003 to 2005 and set up operations in Iraq. She launched her career as a journalist in the Middle East in 1996. UNESCO recruited her to work on one of her first lead assignments in Iraq in 1997-1998. Omar also spent more than three years with the World Bank’s development economics group. She has carried out training programs in Yemen, Bahrain, Afghanistan, Sudan, Lebanon, Palestinian Territories, Kenya and many other countries.

Omar’s activities have been profiled by the Washington Times, the Los Angeles Times, the BBC, NPR, Glamour, the London Times and Newsweek. Her articles and opinion pieces have appeared in the Guardian, the Washington Post, Foreign Policy, Azizah Magazine and Islamica Magazine. She was named among Top 500 World’s Most Influential Arabs by Arabia Business Power in 2011 and 2012, and among the 500 Most Influential Muslims in the World by  Georgetown University and The Royal Islamic Strategic Studies Centre in 2009 .In 2007, Islamic Magazine named her one of the ten young visionaries shaping Islam in America. She holds a master’s degree in Arab studies from Georgetown University and a bachelor’s degree in international relations from George Mason University.

Fun-fact: “This year I joined the DC Basketball League (after 20 years of not playing) and my team went all the way to the finals!”

 

 

H. Nanjala Nyabola is a Kenyan writer and a humanitarian advocate currently based in Nairobi, Kenya. She holds an undergraduate degree in African Studies and Political Science from the University of Birmingham in the UK, an MSc in Forced Migration and an MSc in African Studies, both from the University of Oxford which she attended as a Rhodes Scholar, and a J.D. from Harvard Law School. Her primary interests are in conflict and post-crisis reconstruction, especially translating and incorporating the experiences of marginalised voices (racial, ethnic, economic or gender minorities) in the process of rebuilding societies. She has lived in and travelled to almost 50 countries across 4 continents, speaks eight and a half languages to varying fluency and is comfortable admitting that she doesn’t know the correct way of pronouncing “interdict”.