Fellows Cohort
The World Affairs Council Fellows Program offers a unique professional development opportunity to a small group of greater Seattle’s business and community leaders.
Cabrelle Abel
Assistant General Council
Microsoft
Emeka Alozie
Director of Marketing
Transpose Platform
Connor Bench
Sales Executive
Pillar International Insurance
Aaron Bishop
National Security Specialist
Pacfic Northwest National Laboratory
Andrew Bleiman
Executive Vice President
Tractive
Veronica Bronkema
Regional Administrator
Washington State Department of Labor and Industries
John Bruns
Vice President, Sales and Marketing Global Strategic Initiatives, Boeing Commercial Airplanes, Boeing
Ladi Carr
Senior Director for Global Engagement
University of Washington
Dawn Ehlke
Staff Attorney
Fegan Scott
Ahmed Fahad
Professor
Highline College
Andrew Fisher
Director of the U.S West
Government of Alberta
Ryan Foster
Chief of Staff and Operations
Forest Stewardship Council, Investments and Partnerships
Michelle Frix
Executive Vice President
Seattle Foundation
Josh Glasstetter
Principal
Indelible Public Relations
Deepti Gupta
Senior Software Engineer
Microsoft
HyeSu Han
Admissions Manager
Seattle Public Schools
Megan Hanna
Executive Assistant
Impinj
Laura Hill
Partner
Perkins Coie
Jennifer Lee Hoffman
Professor
University of Washington
Stacey Hutchison
Director of Global Content Policy
Audible
Sara Itani
CEO and Founder
Quixotic Labs Inc.
Maria Cândida Langbauer
Senior Economic Development Strategist
City of SeaTac
George Lin
Senior Associate
ILG Legal Office
Kathryn Peters
Regional Director, Market Analysis
Boeing
Katie Porter
Senior Advocacy Officer
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Kristen Pugsley-Onsager
Assistant General Counsel, Consumer Sales Organization
Microsoft
Karuna Ramakrishnan
Public Policy Manager, International Public Policy
Amazon
Omar Sadeque
Sr. Vice President – International
Trident Seafoods
Captain Jason Sherman
Chief of Staff, Navy Region Northwest
U.S Navy
Brian Smith
Executive Vice President of Strategy & Insights
GBK Collective
Melanie St. Clair
Advisor; Group Lead, Strategic Threat Analysis, National Security Directorate
Pacfic Northwest National Laboratory
Jeffrey Thomson
Associate
K&L Gates
Thomas Tobin
Counsel
Perkins Coie LLP
Kaitlyn Vlahoulis
Senior Global Security Operations Specialist
Concentric
Nicole Vukonich
Policy Director
National Center for APEC
Brandon Willitts
Senior Director, Product Management
Salesforce