Georgetown Latin American Foreign Affairs Association

🔔🇺🇾 Join the LAFAA team for a visit to the Uruguayan embassy in DC! This is a great opportunity for anyone in the community interested in Uruguay’s foreign affairs and/or other regional themes. 🌎

📍Embassy of Uruguay: 1913 I St NW, Washington, DC 20006

🗣️ We hope to see you there!

RSVP is required, so please register before the event.

📣 We are happy to announce we are opening applications, and if necessary elections, for the 2023 LAFAA Executive Board. 📣

Interested applicants should fill out the Google Formin our bio no later than *Sunday, December 4.* We will review the applications and notify the candidates and the LAFAA membership if elections are necessary. Any LAFAA member of any graduate program is eligible to apply. More info on the available positions on the Google Form.

Apply to LAFAA's 2023 Executive Board 📣 -

Apply to LAFAA's 2023 Executive Board 📣

📢 Join LAFAA this Friday, November 18 at 12:30 pm for a special event with Fran Omar, a leader from the Popular Resistance and Rebellion Bloc in El Salvador. The grassroots coalition has been one of the main mobilizing forces behind street protests that have taken place over the past year.

We’ll talk about the current situation, including mass arrests after constitutional rights were suspended in March, as well as the organizing proposals that students, unions, feminists, environmental defenders and many more are putting forward for the struggles ahead.

THIS FRIDAY, Oct 21 at 7 pm — we are excited to partner with for a night of Latin dance 💃🏻💃🏻 Tickets are $15 and include 2 hours of dance lessons by professional instructors followed by social dancing and all-inclusive food and drinks! Proceeds will go toward the GU Latino Medical Student Association’s service and outreach projects this year.

But your tickets here: https://web.cvent.com/event/7aac3024-02ce-4c1e-857e-a67dd637c624/regProcessStep1

We are excited to collaborate with for a happy hour this Friday, October 14 to celebrate the close of Hispanic Heritage Month. Join us at Dacha (Shaw) at 5 pm! 🍹

LAFAA is partnering with the Latin America Leadership Program (LALP) for this year's alumni reunion on Oct. 27, 28 and 29. We are looking for volunteers who are interested in helping out with logistics during the event, meeting the participants, and being part of the networking sessions. You will receive a certificate in recognition of your support.

LALP's network has around 800 alumni from 22 countries in the LATAM region, with public officials, social entrepreneurs, and politicians, including ministers, senators, directors, mid-careers, and rising professionals. *It is a great networking opportunity.*

Please fill out this Google form if you are interested in volunteering -- https://forms.gle/wqEeCh5GScxoxWCh9

Thank you to all who joined LAFAA and US Ambassador to Nicaragua Kevin Sullivan for an insightful conversation on Nicaragua’s political situation, the role of the United States, and careers in foreign service. 🇳🇮

TOMORROW - meet the US Ambassador to Nicaragua 🇳🇮 -

TOMORROW - meet the US Ambassador to Nicaragua 🇳🇮

TOMORROW (11:30-12:30) — we are hosting a private conversation with US Ambassador to Nicaragua Kevin K. Sullivan to talk about the situation in Nicaragua, Latin America more broadly, and careers in foreign affairs. The event will be held at ICC 302-P. Space is limited — please RSVP to secure a spot!!!

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/19b8F5xP1o9cRLaeh78IuJ85F5s8zEu8Fm06515oMvY0/edit

🚨Applications are now open for ’ fall research grants 🚨

G*I supports interdisciplinary research on Western Hemisphere affairs around four critical challenges: governance and the rule of law; economic growth and innovation; social and cultural inclusion; and sustainability and the environment.

📋 More info: https://americas.georgetown.edu/essays/collaborative-research-grants

LAFAA's September Newsletter 🍂 -

LAFAA's September Newsletter 🍂