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

Ben Able

Drake Accardi

Taylor Beard

Kyle Beaulieu

Ali Boyd

Anna Burns

Shannon Cantwell

Desirae Clodfelter

Jonathan Cote

Abby Elsener

John Odell Ferguson

Lorna Fink

Cary Fontana

Brann Fowler

Shun Griffin

Ricky Harris

Brian Highsmith

Prenita Hudson

Carlyle Jackson

Abby Kobrovsky

Cory Pansing

Emily Patterson

Alex Pinson

Karly Schledwitz

Katie Shultz

Matthew Springate

Emily Wilson

Mark Wu