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Democracy Lab Members Get an Inside Look at the President’s Residence—the White House

Andrew J Schappert — Thu, 18 Apr 2024 17:25:28 +0000

Democracy Lab Members Get an Inside Look at the President’s Residence—the White House Andrew J Schappert Thu, 04/18/2024 - 13:25

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Schar School Democracy Lab students and Associate Professor Jennifer Victor, far left, pose for a photo at the White House. Photos by Buzz McClain/Schar School of Policy and Government

Jesse David Duvall, center, takes in the sights of the Green Room. The room is usually used for receptions and small formal dinners.

Joe Biden wasn’t home—he was campaigning in Pennsylvania—when 27 members of the Schar School of Policy and Government’s undergraduate learning community, Democracy Lab, paid a visit on Wednesday to the president’s home at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue in northwest Washington, D.C.

The field trip to the White House, led by associate professor Jennifer N. Victor and Master of Public Policy student and learning communities assistant Mariem K. El Gazzah, was the first visit for most of the students, who are first-year government and international politics students at ��AV.

“I think it was magical,” said Sierra Hill, originally from Gypsum, Colorado, after the self-guided tour. “Looking at the state dinner room, it made me think about the global power of the United States and how diplomacy happens right there.”

Lacey Eckert, a freshman from New Jersey, was happy to finally see the president’s house from the inside after looking at it from the other side of the wrought iron security fence several times. “But it’s a little over-hyped,” she said. “I wish we could see a little bit more, like the Oval Office, but it’s still a privilege to see inside.”

Students began the day by joining a line at the East Gate with other visitors for the multipoint security check-in before following winding corridors and eventually finding themselves inside. Surprisingly, the White House gift shop is the first room encountered. (“Isn’t the gift shop usually at the end of the ride?” one tourist commented.)

The tour continued down an East Wing corridor boasting a gallery of photos of past presidents, their families, and their pets. The Library, China Room, Green Room, Red Room, Blue Room, red velvet movie theater, and other rooms were open to look into but not enter.

Although the 45-minute tour was self-guided, Secret Service officers stationed in each room doubled as helpful docents.

“The guards were very knowledgeable about the historic paintings,” said Anastasia Rea, a native of Toledo, Ohio. “They were able to give us a lot of interesting information about where the portraits fit into American history and why they belonged in the White House.”

Like many, Jesse David Duvall was taken aback at the size of the interior of the world’s most famous private residence.

“I thought it would be a lot bigger on the inside, but it’s actually kind of small,” he said.

His key observation? The house “is actually for the president,” he said. “It’s not really meant for tourists. The main purpose of the White House is for the president and his staff. And you can see that in the operation of the house.”

Indeed, off limits to the public are the Oval Office, the Cabinet Room, the Situation Room, the James S. Brady Press Briefing Room, the Navy Mess, the Treaty Room, and most of the other 132 rooms (and 35 bathrooms) in the six-level residence.

The tour was followed by a Domino’s-catered debriefing in nearby Franklin Park.

For Hill and Rea, it was their second Schar School-sponsored visit to the White House in six months. During their first visit, Joe Biden actually was there.

Jennifer Victor snaps a group selfie following the White House tour.

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Schar School’s Correa-Cabrera Awarded a Fulbright to Explore Border Security and Immigration

Andrew J Schappert — Wed, 17 Apr 2024 17:38:19 +0000

Schar School’s Correa-Cabrera Awarded a Fulbright to Explore Border Security and Immigration Andrew J Schappert Wed, 04/17/2024 - 13:38

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Guadalupe Correa-Cabrera: ‘It represents the closing of a period of very intense field research for me.’ Photo by Creative Services.

Schar School of Policy and Government professor Guadalupe Correa-Cabrera has received a Fulbright U.S. Scholar Award to conduct research and teach in Mexico as part of the Fulbright-García Robles Social Sciences and Humanities Program. The highly competitive fellowship program has been awarded to 62 Nobel laureates, 89 Pulitzer Prize winners, and 80 MacArthur fellows.

Correa-Cabrera will reside beginning in September at El Colegio de a Frontera Norte (El COLEF) in Tijuana, Mexico, where she will teach topics related to border issues as well as conduct research on the phenomenon of human smuggling and its impact on immigration policy and border security.

Correa-Cabrera said she is honored to be selected for the prestigious exchange program, which is intended to strengthen international cooperation among academics and provide support for teaching and studying abroad.

“This opportunity is very important to me professionally,” she said. “It represents the closing of a period of very intense field research for me.”

Correa-Cabrera said she would finish a book in the coming year studying the activities and development of human smuggling networks that facilitate U.S.-bound migration.

“The book will identify the main actors facilitating human mobility through illicit forms, their social networks, and the systems they form,” she said.

So far she has spent eight years collecting more than 550 interviews “with migrants and relevant actors,” she said. “The project analyzes the roles of different groups and forms of organized crime and other U.S.-bound migration facilitators.”

Her most recent book, Frontera: A Journey across the U.S.-Mexico Border, with coauthor Sergio Chapa, was published this spring by Texas Christian University Press.

Correa-Cabrera will return to ��AV when her Fulbright fellowship and book are complete.

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Remembering Mari Tisera: Mason Confers a Rare Posthumous Degree

Andrew J Schappert — Wed, 17 Apr 2024 14:19:04 +0000

Remembering Mari Tisera: Mason Confers a Rare Posthumous Degree Andrew J Schappert Wed, 04/17/2024 - 10:19

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McKenna Beauchamp, left, and Mari Tisera. Photos provided.

‘She lit up every room. She had no enemies, and her laughter is unlike anything I’ve ever heard.’ - McKenna Beauchamp

For just the 32nd time in the 52-year history of the school, ��AV will confer a posthumous degree.

Mari Tisera, a student in the Schar School of Policy and Government’s Government and International Politics program, will receive her bachelor of arts degree at the Schar School’s Degree Celebration on May 10 at EagleBank Arena in Fairfax, Virginia. Tisera passed away June 6, 2023, of melanoma. She was 20 years old.

It is just the third posthumous degree awarded to a Schar School student. Mason alumna McKenna Beauchamp, a 2022 integrative studies graduate, was not going to have it any other way.

Beauchamp was transferring from John Tyler Community College (now Brightpoint Community College) in 2020 when she met Tisera during an incoming new student group chat. Despite the group chat being virtual due to the Covid campus lockdown, the two became best friends, a relationship that blossomed when in-person opportunities resumed.

“She was diagnosed her freshman year,” Beauchamp said, still in awe of her friend’s indefatigability. “She worked, she went to school, she would do her homework during her treatments and come to campus to take an exam.”

Beauchamp, who is now event coordinator for the nonprofit Big Brothers Big Sisters of the National Capital Area, did not learn of Tisera’s disease until a year after they met. “She was so strong,” she said, “and she didn’t want anybody to really know about it.”

Despite the disease and the debilitating and time-consuming treatments, Tisera packed her short college career with as many opportunities as she could in her pursuit of her goal of an eventual law degree.

In addition to studying government, she was also a Spanish language minor and organized marches for women’s, LGBTQ, and Black rights, and continually fought for the rights of the unhoused. She was proud to be a “sweetheart” for the Mason campus fraternity Zeta Psi, a symbolic position for women that afforded her opportunities to contribute to the fraternity’s activities.

In July, U.S. Rep. Doris Matsui (D-CA) delivered a eulogy from the House floor honoring her. Tisera was an intern for the congresswoman.

“It was wonderful having Mari serve in my Capitol Hill office at the end of 2021 and the beginning of 2022,” Matsui said. “She worked hard, was eager to learn, and served my constituents and all visitors with kindness and warmth.

“I know that Mari has said that all of us in the office had a positive impact on her, but she also had a positive impact on all of us who worked with her that we will never forget. Mari wanted to come back and work in our office after she graduated, and it would have been an honor to have her back on our team.” (A full transcript can be found on this page.)

“She never let her cancer define her or hold her back in any way,” said Beauchamp, who was relentless in advocating for the rare posthumous degree. “She lit up every room. She had no enemies, and her laughter is unlike anything I’ve ever heard. It just really brings joy to everybody.”

Tisera’s mother and father, who immigrated from Argentina in 2000 and live in Front Royal, Virginia, where Mari was raised, will be in attendance at the Degree Celebration, Beauchamp said, as will her brothers and their wives.

Beauchamp will be there as well.

“I’ve turned something positive out of all this,” she said. “It’s really a good thing to celebrate. It’s helping me with closure so I’m sure it’s helping other people as well.”

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Award-Winning Restaurateur and Alumna Rose Previte to Address Schar School Graduates

Andrew J Schappert — Mon, 15 Apr 2024 13:57:23 +0000

Award-Winning Restaurateur and Alumna Rose Previte to Address Schar School Graduates Andrew J Schappert Mon, 04/15/2024 - 09:57

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Rose Previte: ‘One thing I always appreciated about Mason in my graduate studies was the diversity of the classroom.‘ Photo by Jennifer Chase

Rose Previte, the Restaurant Association of Metropolitan Washington’s Restaurateur of the Year, is the keynote speaker for the Schar School of Policy and Government’s 2024 Degree Celebration taking place Friday, May 10, at ��AV’s EagleBank Arena in Fairfax, Virginia.

The sea of green caps and gowns at the arena will be a familiar one to Previte: In 2007, she graduated from the Schar School with a Master of Public Policy degree that she credits for her early success in opening her first restaurant in 2014, Washington, D.C.,’s famed Compass Rose, a perennial entry on major “best restaurants” lists.

Since then, her No White Plates company includes, in addition to Compass Rose, the Michelin-starred, fire-based cuisine of Maydān, the Middle East-themed Medina, and the Eastern Mediterranean Kirby Club in the Mosaic District of Fairfax, Virginia, as well as Go There Wines, which brings to market wines created by women and underrepresented winemakers.

For Previte (it rhymes with “edit”), all of her businesses tell stories through food and wine, reflecting her Ohio upbringing and her marriage to former NPR anchor and reporter David Greene. Her Lebanese mother ran a catering company while her Sicilian father sold Italian sausage sandwiches at street fairs and festivals. She traveled with her husband to some 30 countries during his radio career, where she sampled the wares of street and stall vendors, not realizing those tasty memories would be the eventual menu of Compass Rose.

Her first cookbook, Maydān: Recipes from Lebanon and Beyond (Abrams Books, 2023), which debuted in November, is an extension of that storytelling. ”It’s all the home recipes from the last 10 years as well as recipes from the restaurants,” she said. “The base of it actually is all the stuff I grew up eating with my mom and my family.”

Her arrival to Washington after completing undergraduate studies at Ohio Northern University in 2003 came with the determination to change what she could in the public realm.

“I was there for the [George W.] Bush years and we had the Iraq war, and Afghanistan was on everybody’s minds, and Bush was very unpopular. And here I am moving to D.C. from very conservative Ohio and I want to, like, fight ‘the man.’”

To win that figurative fight, she needed to know how. A degree in public policy made sense, so she enrolled for graduate courses at the Schar School.

“One thing I always appreciated about Mason in my graduate studies was the diversity of the classroom,” she said. “I ended up appreciating the range of opinions in every classroom, which I don’t think is common at other schools in the area where there’s so much leaning one way or another.

“And the fact that we had super liberals, military officers, people in nonprofit—it was just such a range of people in the room. That was just such a cool experience, with the conversations, the debates, the group projects—no one thought the same way, and to me, that's what school is for, right?

“As the world's become more polarized, that's probably more important than it ever has been.”

The engaging classroom experience led to real-life public policy work. While at Mason, she traveled to New Orleans to assist on an independent study on how the city could recover after Hurricane Katrina. She also interned for D.C. City Council member Jack Evans, who was leading the effort to fund a new Major League Baseball stadium for the Washington Nationals.

After completing her Mason degree, Previte earned a fellowship that allowed her to work for the Arlington County manager for a year. From there she relocated to New York City and worked for the speaker of the city council before moving to Russia with her husband, who became NPR’s Moscow correspondent.

The somewhat peculiar idea of a famed restaurateur earning a master’s degree in public policy isn’t lost on her.

“I get asked this a lot when I’m invited on panels,” she said. “But ask yourself, what are the challenges of opening a business? Being a first-time, young, female business owner in D.C. was excruciatingly hard.”

Obtaining a liquor license, for instance. Neighbors, many of whom happened to be Washington lawyers and bold face names, “they were very—I’m trying to think of a nice word—persnickety, if you will, about who was coming into the neighborhood in 2014. And they did not want Compass Rose there.”

She fought “the man.” And won.

“I always tell everybody how helpful it was to have a policy degree at that point because I had to navigate the bureaucracy of D.C. permits: Liquor license hearings in front of the ABC Board. I had to go in front of the community and to city council hearings and things like that.”

The Schar School degree and her real-world experience came in handy when it was time to obtain the building permits and the business license, she says.

“I didn't have enough money to hire someone to get my permits for me,” she said. “I had to go down to City Hall all of the time. I did all that by hand, which a lot of people don't do, and I actually kind of enjoyed it because I got to see the policy in action.

“After working for the City Council and after working in my fellowship in Arlington County, I got to be on the other side of it. And I was like, ‘I know why you guys made this law. And actually, I don't agree.’ And now here I am on the other side of the laws that I helped write.

“So that was an interesting experience.”

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Virginia Legislature Honors Schar School’s Stuart S. Malawer’s Lifetime of Service and Achievement

Andrew J Schappert — Wed, 10 Apr 2024 14:43:35 +0000

Virginia Legislature Honors Schar School’s Stuart S. Malawer’s Lifetime of Service and Achievement Andrew J Schappert Wed, 04/10/2024 - 10:43

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Stuart S. Malawer: ‘My students over the years have been from all areas of the commonwealth and the world, and they have been simply outstanding.’

The Virginia Legislature recently passed Senate Joint Resolution No. 80, recognizing the contributions of Professor Stuart S. Malawer upon his retirement from the Schar School of Policy and Government. With a career spanning 46 years at ��AV (and a total of 55 years in academia), Malawer’s impact extends far beyond the classroom, as recognized by the lengthy Senate resolution.

As a distinguished faculty member, Malawer’s expertise in law and public policy has left an indelible mark. Notably, he served on various state boards and agencies, including the Virginia Economic Development Partnership and the Advisory Committee on International Trade, always with an intention of advancing Virginia’s interests. In fact, he served in various capacities for the commonwealth for six governors, beginning in 1990 with Governor Douglas Wilder (D). Most recently he was the principal investigator of a Department of Defense-funded study on cybersecurity export markets.

A Mason Distinguished Faculty Member of the Year awardee, Malawer said he considers his years at Mason “as public service of the highest order. My students over the years have been from all areas of the commonwealth and the world, and they have been simply outstanding. They have greatly enriched me and opened my eyes to many things globally.”

As the American editor of the China and WTO Review—an authoritative and leading legal journal—he played a pivotal role in shaping international trade law. He wrote eight books covering global trade law, national security law, and World Trade Organization litigation. Recently, his articles delved into U.S.-China trade disputes, cybersecurity, and Presidents Trump and Biden’s trade policies. His insights continue to inform policymakers and practitioners alike.

“I’m glad I had several gubernatorial appointments to state boards and agencies dealing with economic development and international trade,” he said. “I’m really happy to have been a delegate on Virginia governor trade missions to India, China, and Japan.

“I’m fortunate that my two kids, Hilary and Gregg, have also entered public service as attorneys with the federal government—in the Department of Justice and the Department of Education—and that my wife Sandy also had a gubernatorial appointment to serve on the Virginia Board of Counseling.”

In short, he said, “I wouldn’t have changed anything.”

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Schar Study Abroad Immerses Students in U.S. Mexico Border Policy, Security, and Immigration

Andrew J Schappert — Mon, 08 Apr 2024 20:04:50 +0000

Schar Study Abroad Immerses Students in U.S. Mexico Border Policy, Security, and Immigration Andrew J Schappert Mon, 04/08/2024 - 16:04

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Members of the Schar School study abroad contingent gather in front of a mural at the National Autónomous University of México. Professor Guadalupe Correa-Cabrera is at center.

Following the coattails of President Biden’s highly publicized visit to Brownsville, Texas, a cadre of graduate students from ��AV’s Schar School of Policy and Government arrived for a week of academic activity along the U.S.-Mexico border and in Mexico City.

Unlike a parallel trip to the same region at the same time by the Schar School’s International Relations Policy Task Force (you can read their story at this page), “our trip was about the U.S.-Mexico relations during a time of elections,” said Professor Guadalupe Correa-Cabrera, a foremost expert on border and immigration policy who accompanied the students.

“Border developments are perhaps the most consequential policy issue of this time,” said Michal McElwain Malur, director of external programs at the Schar School, who assembled the itinerary and helped lead the trip to the border for a second year in a row.

“Since the inception of its study abroad program, the Schar School has prioritized providing students with opportunities to explore consequential policy problems facing the U.S. today.”

“We spent one whole day at the border, specifically at the border wall, and we spoke at length with a local editor about border security,” added Correa-Cabrera. “It was important to see this issue through the eyes of someone who covers it for newspapers for a population that relies on accurate information.”

Along the way they met with top industry and government leaders on both sides of the border, with whom they freely discussed the ongoing issues that keep the U.S.–Mexico affiliation at the top of international headlines.

“Putting a face to the border was fascinating,” said Davis Kaderli, a Master of Public Policy student and participant on the trip. “What I actually saw isn’t what the mass media often portrays. It is much more complex than the majority of Americans understand.”

For instance, while in Brownsville, Texas, the students heard harrowing stories of inadequate services provided to Americans in need along the border. In Boca Chica, during a visit to the sprawling SpaceX campus, students met with residents in government partnerships and discussed their views on how SpaceX impacts their community.

“The meetings we had gave insight and were candid discussions,” said Chris Williams, a student in the Schar School’s Master of Global Commerce program. Williams added that anybody immersing themselves in a degree with a global perspective should seek out study abroad opportunities.

A significant component of the trip was a visit to the political capital of Mexico City and the National Autónomous University of México (UNAM), where students engaged in conversations with decision makers and attended lectures.

“Mexico is having elections in June this year,” Correa-Cabrera said. “The U.S. is having them in November. We put these elections in context for the students.”

Upon arriving in Mexico City, the students received a briefing from Miguel Siliceo, the senior economic advisor to Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador.

On International Women’s Day, the cohort of students was officially welcomed by the president of the federal senate of the Republic of Mexico, who recognized them from the Senate floor, followed by a meeting with a Mexican senator. The students said they gained insights from Mexican officials and policymakers on mutually shared challenges, as well as new avenues for cooperation and engagement.

“We had ridiculous access on this study abroad, from [President López Obrado’s] senior economic advisor to a legislative briefing at the Mexican federal senate by the vice president of the Senate,” said Willaims.

Students met with a panel of diplomatic staff at the U.S. Embassy in Mexico and received an interactive briefing on the challenges in the upcoming presidential election.

“The five speakers at the embassy was my favorite session,” said Anduela Johnson, a student in the Schar School’s Master of International Security program. “It was interesting to hear how they are managing security issues and balancing economic implications.”

“They see the relationship with the U.S. and our shared border differently. The entire experience was a true joy,” said Johnson. On topics ranging from security and trade policy to the challenges of the upcoming election with two female candidates, each discussion sparked fascinating discussions and means for collaboration between the sets of students.

“My favorite part of this trip was hearing many perspectives,” said Gabe Dole, one of the undergraduates on the trip and a student in the Schar School’s Government and International Politics major. “I really valued the range of perspectives we heard.”

“The Schar School of Policy and Government offered two complimentary study abroad programs to the U.S. Mexico border this spring,” said Malur. “The fact they were both at the border is a testament to the Schar School being a policy school and offering our students the opportunity to hear and see firsthand policy debates and consequences of policies in action.“

Study abroad opportunities are important to a Schar School education, no matter the level or degree program. Trips include programs in Europe, Africa, Asia, the Middle East, and Latin America. To learn more about the school's study abroad programs, visit this site.

Not only did the Schar School students receive a shout out from the Senate floor, they were invited to a briefing in a committee room and to sit at Senate desks.

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Schar School Alum Jason Smart Is a Welcome Guest in Ukrainian Media—Not So in Much in Russia

Andrew J Schappert — Thu, 04 Apr 2024 12:59:18 +0000

Schar School Alum Jason Smart Is a Welcome Guest in Ukrainian Media—Not So in Much in Russia Andrew J Schappert Thu, 04/04/2024 - 08:59

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Jason Jay Smart: ‘I’m probably the most televised American in Ukraine.’ Screenshot by Buzz McClain/Schar School of Policy and Government

It’s not every day you meet someone who is officially persona non grata in Russia, but that’s the case for Schar School of Policy and Government 2007 graduate Jason Jay Smart.

In 2009, as a recently minted 24-year-old ��AV graduate with a job working for the International Republican Institute (IRI), a U.S.-financed nonprofit promoting democracy around the world, Smart found his visa to visit Russia declined.

“The reason listed on the visa denial was a law that bans those considered a threat to Russian national security,” he said on a recent Zoom call. “My Russian immigration lawyer explained that the decision to reject me was for life and could not be repealed.”

The problem was the IRI chairman, the late U.S. Senator John McCain (R-AZ), “and the Russians really, really didn’t like John McCain,” he said. That, and the IRI was working for the Russian Democratic opposition to Vladimir Putin.

The banishment from Russia hasn’t slowed down Smart’s business. He is a Kyiv-based consultant on international relations, national security, and politics, which helps clients navigate particularly treacherous and difficult negotiations across the post-Soviet space and Latin America.

Mark N. Katz: ‘I very much appreciate all that Jason is doing to remind American and European audiences about the plight of Ukraine and what is at stake both for it and the West in Putin's ongoing war with that country.’ Photo by Buzz McClain/Schar School of Policy and Government

At Mason, Smart was a double major, in government and international politics at the Schar School and Russian studies in the College of Humanities and Social Sciences; he followed that with a graduate certificate in security studies (’11) and a master of political science from Virginia Tech (’13) and a doctorate from Moldova State University in Chișinǎu (’19).

Russia’s nefarious activities around the world have made Smart an in-demand consultant as well as a media figure. “I’m probably the most televised American in Ukraine,” he said. “Last year, I probably gave 300, 400 television interviews there. I published more than 300 articles in English, and more in Russian and Ukrainian.”

He keeps that success in perspective: The high media exposure, he said with a laugh, “doesn’t necessarily mean I’m really good at it. It’s just there’s not a lot of other people who feel comfortable in four languages to go on TV or up on a stage to discuss geopolitics with somebody—but I do.”

Two Schar School professors who helped guide Smart during his time at Mason are Eric B. Shiraev—"my first publications were with him,” Smart recalled—and Russia and Middle East expert Mark N. Katz. In fact, when it comes time to interview those with informed insight for his columns in Kyiv Post, Smart often turns to Katz, who recalls his former student well.

“It was clear to me then that he had an unusually passionate interest in the former Soviet Union, about which he was highly knowledgeable,” Katz said. “His contributions to class discussion were always detailed and articulate.”

As for being a source for the former student, Katz said, “It has truly been an honor to be quoted by him in some of his articles for the Kyiv Post. The two of us have also sometimes been quoted in the same Newsweek article.

“More importantly, I very much appreciate all that Jason is doing to remind American and European audiences about the plight of Ukraine and what is at stake both for it and the West in Putin's ongoing war with that country.”

As a Schar School undergraduate, Smart received a national security scholarship to study in Russia—which helped him to become fluent in Russian—“and from that I was able to apply for other jobs when I graduated,” he said.

“There was a direct correlation between my [Mason] degree and the fact that Mason is in the [Washington,] D.C. area, that’s quite positive, especially if you are trying to get into international fields. You mix with people from all sorts of places.”

As for that banishment from Russia, does he wear it as a badge of honor?

“Darn right!” he laughed. “You kidding me? It’s never not that, especially in the last two years. That thing hangs on my office wall and is a source of pride. It’s a very big positive—in fact, I would not work with people who would argue the contrary.”

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