Marshall Memorial Fellowship/2023
The participants year 2023 of the Marshall Memorial Fellowship of the German Marshall Fund of the United States (GMF),[1] one of the most important CIA front organizations.[2] For the previous year's cadre, see Marshall Memorial Fellowship/2022.
Most of the Fellows are mid-level people, meaning that most of them don't have an entry in Wikispooks yet. But the positions they hold are powerful, and the CIA-close GMF has created an extensive cadre of journalists, NGOs, US state level politicians and administrators and others.
Own words
This year's program brought together 56 fellows from 13 European nations and 12 US states and featured a gender split of 59% women vs. 41% men. The fellows ranged in age from 32 to 48 and hailed from the private, governmental, nonprofit/NGO, multilateral, media, legal, educational, and finance/banking sectors.[3]
The program relies on 6 months of distance learning and 24 days of first-hand experience to facilitate knowledge and network development for effective transatlantic engagement.[4]
Following the 6 months of virtual learning including educational and logistical briefings, the participants began the in-person segment of the fellowship in Washington, DC. Over three days of programming, they met GMF experts, explored the salient challenges impacting the transatlantic alliance, and, most importantly, built peer-to-peer connections with each other. [3]
US-based fellows were divided into small groups, each of which visited three European cities such as Athens, Belgrade, Bratislava, Bucharest, Chisinau, London, Madrid, Paris, and Yerevan. Simultaneously, the European fellows traveled to three American communities including Baltimore, Chicago, Cleveland, Houston, Minneapolis, New Orleans, Providence, Seattle, and Spanish Fork (Utah).[3]
In each city, MMF coordinators created a multi-day program focused on the following themes: leadership, diplomacy and security, democracy and civil society, economy and sustainability, and diversity, equity and inclusion. Activities included interactive dialogues, site visits, networking opportunities, and meetings with MMF alumni.[3]
Places fellows visited included NATO headquarters, Chatham House, and possibly Johns Hopkins[5].
"Healthcare and biotech investor" William Canestaro said:
We wrapped up our experience in Brussels with a visit to NATO where we were briefed on the organization's history, hybrid threats, the human security agenda, And NATO-US relations...We know that NATO exists but understanding but have little understanding of its day-to-day work to ensure that we deter potential threats and can respond in a coordinated way.[6]
Fellows
Armenia
Belgium
Bulgaria
Croatia
Cyprus
France
Finland
Germany
Georgia
Greece
Hungary
Italy
Ireland
Netherlands
Norway
Poland
Portugal
Romania
Serbia
Slovenia
Spain
Turkey
Ukraine
United Kingdom
United States
- Antonio Mendez
- Barbara Barreno-Paschall
- Chenee Joseph
- Clifford Rhoten
- Erin Okuno
- Felicia McClary
- G. Nagesh Rao
- Irene Onyeagbako Mofunanya
- Jamaal Glenn
- James Hunter
- Jenny Spencer
- Jessica Holmes
- Jimmy Santos
- Karissa Wallace
- Lucas Hernandez
- Matthew Landers
- Megan Ortiz
- Michelle Hernandez-Erbeyi
- Romana Lee-Akiyama
- Roshonda Smith
- Tiffany Tavarez
- William Canestaro
- Ze Min Xiao
References
- ↑ https://www.gmfus.org/news/2019-marshall-memorial-fellows-announced archived at: https://archive.ph/wip/TPJ8n
- ↑ https://www.gmfus.org/2019-20-marshall-memorial-fellows
- ↑ a b c d https://www.gmfus.org/sharing-2023-mmf-experience
- ↑ https://visitors-programme.europa.eu/blog/georgia-moving-west-euro-atlantic-community
- ↑ https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7127396820632092672/?updateEntityUrn=urn%3Ali%3Afs_feedUpdate%3A%28V2%2Curn%3Ali%3Aactivity%3A7127396820632092672%29
- ↑ https://www.linkedin.com/posts/wcanestaro_internationalsecurity-gmfmmf-activity-7113537912834555904-IW4b/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop
