The 2008-09 Advance Team played host to several guest speakers who appeared on Furman’s campus during the school year, including The Right Honorable Eibhlin Byrne, the 339th Lord Mayor of Dublin, Ireland; Hodding Carter, Professor of Public Policy and Leadership at UNC-Chapel Hill and former US Assistant Secretary of State; Marshall Goldman, Kathryn Wasserman Davis Professors of Russian Economics, Wellesley College and Senior Scholar at Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies; Thomas Boyatt, former ambassador to Burkina Faso and Colombia, and Foreign Affairs Council CEO; and Ambassador Carey Cavanaugh, Director of the Patterson School of Diplomacy and International Commerce at the University of Kentucky.
Members of the Advance Team were able to participate in a two-day national conference, China’s Global Rise: International Relations in an Era of Change, and the team also made their annual trip to Columbia for the Fourth Wilkins Leadership Awards Dinner.
Rachael Parrish
2018-19 Advance Team Leader