Careers in Public Affairs with Fannie Mitchell Expert in Residence Amy Lazarus '05

Join us for dinner to learn more about Amy's career in public affairs. **Register by clicking "More Information" below.** Amy Lazarus is the Executive Director of the International Institute for Sustained Dialogue (IISD) where she previously served as the inaugural Executive Director of the Sustained Dialogue Campus Network (SDCN) to develop everyday leaders who engage differences as strengths to improve their campuses, workplaces, and communities. Amy was a Coro Fellow in Public Affairs, earned an M.S. in Public Policy and Management at Carnegie Mellon's Heinz School, and founded Common Ground at Duke University. She is a World Economic Forum Global Shaper, serves on the board of Operation Understanding DC, and is a recipient of USA Network's Characters Unite Award, Facing History's Upstander Award, and the American Express NGen Leadership Fellowship. The programs Amy develops are cited as best practices in Barrett Seaman's Binge: What Your College Student Won't Tell You, and The Washington Post. Amy practices tai chi and has sung back up for Aretha Franklin.