Alumni Outcomes
Alumni of the Political Science Department are researchers, public affairs specialists, fieldworkers and policy analysts. They have run political campaigns and served as congressional staff, and several serve as senators and representatives on Capitol Hill.
Select Notable Alumni
Josh Balk, BA '03, co-founder of JUST food company
Zachary S. Borichevsky, BA '06, nationally acclaimed tenor opera singer
Rep. Julia Brownley, BA ‘75, U.S. representative from California
Rep. Esther Agbaje, BA '07, Minnesota State Representative
Rep. Gil Cisneros, BA ‘94, founder of GW’s Cisneros Hispanic Leadership Institute and U.S. representative from California
Sally Nuamah, BA '11, founder of the TWII Foundation, a scholarship organization for first-generation female students, and author of the book How Girls Achieve
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Recent Undergraduate Alumni Employers
- Adaptive Biotechnologies
- Bloomberg
- Boeing
- Campaign Legal Center
- Cato Institute
- Center for the Study of Social Policy
- Children’s Law Center
- Deloitte
- Democratic Party of Virginia
- Edelman
- Education Week
- Fulbright
- Human Rights Campaign
- IBM
- Institute for Educational Leadership
- Malala Fund
- Manhattan District Attorney’s Office
- Maryland State Government
- Social Science Research Council
- National Public Radio
- New York City Mayor’s Office
- Politico
- Raytheon Company
- The Associated Press
- U.S. House of Representatives
- U.S. Senate
- Yelp
- Youth Service America
“At GW, I was immersed in a world that allowed me to develop my leadership skills and probe important public policy challenges related to the environment.”
Nate Morris, BA '03
Founder, Rubicon Global
Recent Graduate Alumni Employers
- Air Force Academy
- Baker Institute for Public Policy at Rice University
- Birmingham-Southern College
- Brown University
- Center for American Progress
- Colorado State University
- Cornell University
- The Congressional Research Service
- DePaul University
- The Federal Bureau of Investigation
- The Global Governance Institute
- Harvard University
- Hong Kong University
- Naval War College
- Occidental College
- Oxford University
- Princeton University
- Rice University
- Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
- Singapore Management University
- SOAS University of London
- University College London
- University of Indiana
- University of Mississippi
- University of Pennsylvania
- University of Texas-Austin
- University of Toronto
- U.S. Department of State
- U.S. Naval War College
- Virginia Tech
- William J. Perry Center for Hemispheric Defense Studies
- West Chester University
- William & Mary
- The World Bank
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