Highlights from the 2019 trip!

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Media:

• Phillip Rucker - White House Bureau Chief for The Washington Post

• Jonathan Capehart - The Washington Post editorial board 

• Brett Baier, Chief political anchor for Fox News

• Phil Mattingly, CNN (interviewed at Capitol)

• Bob Cusack, Editor In Chief, The Hill

• Juliet Eilperin, Environmental Reporter, The Washington Post

• Nick Wadhams, National Security Reporter, Bloomberg News

• Reporter’s Committee for Freedom of the Press

 

Policy Experts:

• Jeremy Bash – Former Chief of Staff at the Department of Defense & CIA

• Eric Fanning – Former United States Secretary of the Army and presently President and CEO of Aerospace Industries Association

• Jen Psaki – Former White House Communications Director for Barack Obama

• Melanie Nakagawa, CEO of Climate Initiative  

• Mary Anne Hitt, Director of Beyond Coal Campaign, Sierra Club

• Jeremy Bash, Former Chief of Staff, Department of Defense & CIA

• Eric Fanning, President and CEO of Aerospace Industries Association, former Secretary of the Army

• Jen Psaki, Former White House Communications Director, President Obama

• Eric Schultz, Former Senior Advisor to President Obama

• Jeff Nussbaum, speech writer for former VP Joe Biden

• Capricia Marshall, former US Protocol Ambassador, President Obama

• Christina Reynolds, Vice President, Communications, Emily’s List

 

Law Makers:  

• Representative David Cicilline

• Representative Joe Kennedy III

 

NGOs:​

• Global Fund for Children

• National Geographic

• Save the Children 

• World Wildlife Fund

• Clean Water Action Network

• Teach for America 

• World Wildlife Fund (Students attended their annual summit and reception)

• Green Peace

• UNICEF

• Environmental Defense Fund

• World Central Kitchen (meeting at Chef Jose Andres’s Oyamel Restaurant)

• Education Reimagined

• Conservation International

• The Education Trust

• Climate Action Network

• American Youth Policy Forum

• Ocean Conservancy

 

Government Agencies:

• Environmental Protection Agency, Drinking Water Protection Division

• Global Change Research Program

• National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administation (NOAA), Marine Debris Division

• USAID, Afghanistan & Haitian Divisions

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Embassies:

• Embassy of Brazil

• Embassy of Lithuania

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And Fun!:​

• Newseum

• Air & Space Museum

• U.S. Capitol

• Jefferson Memorial

• Lincoln Memorial – (where students recited the Gettysburg Address)

• Policy group dinners

• National Geographic

• National Archives

• Capitol (where students had a special visit to Speaker’s Balcony overlooking the Mall)

• National Galleries

• National Portrait Gallery

• Ford’s Theater

• White House

• Jefferson Memorial (for morning fun run)

• MLK Memorial

• FDR Memorial

• Vietnam Memorial