printable versionAlum to draw on White House experience in her Nov. 14 talk on importance of civic service
Susan E. Rice, senior fellow in the foreign policy studies program at the Brookings Institution and former U.S. assistant secretary of state for African affairs, will speak at 7 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 14, in Cubberley Auditorium. Her talk is titled "Public Service in the National and Global Interest: A Call for New Leadership to Meet 21st-Century Challenges."
Rice will speak about her career and discuss contemporary challenges to national security—in particular, global poverty. In addition to serving on the National Security Council as special assistant to the president and senior director for African affairs, Rice was director for international organizations and peacekeeping at the NSC.
Rice, who graduated from Stanford with a bachelor's degree in history in 1986, received master's and doctoral degrees in international relations from Oxford University, where she was a Rhodes Scholar.
Rice's talk is part of the Call to Serve campaign, an outreach initiative at Stanford and five other pilot schools designed to encourage students to consider careers in public service. The initiative is sponsored by the Partnership for Public Service, a national, nonpartisan, nonprofit organization, with the Haas Center for Public Service coordinating programs at Stanford in collaboration with groups across campus.
Co-sponsors of the Nov. 14 talk include the Haas Center, Black Community Services Center, Black Graduate Students Association, Career Development Center, Center for African Studies, International Relations, International Policy Studies, Public Policy Program, Roosevelt Institution at Stanford, Stanford African Students Association, Stanford in Government, Stanford Project on Hunger and Women's Community Center.