ACFR STAFF
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Senior
Program Manager Rhoda Rabkin Rhoda Rabkin became ACFR's Senior Program Manager and, as such, the Manager of our National Speakers Program in December 2007. She holds a B.A. Degree with distinction from Cornell University (1975) and a doctorate in Government from Harvard University (1983). She has taught in her specialty, Latin American politics, at Harvard and Cornell, and she has also been Visiting Professor at the Institute of Political Science at the Catholic University of Chile. She is the author of a book (Cuban Politics: The Revolutionary Experiment, Praeger Publishers, 1990) and numerous articles in her field and on other foreign- and public-policy topics. Rhoda Rabkin can be reached at rrabkin@acfr.org. |
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Operations
Manager Lauren Friedman Lauren Friedman joined the ACFR staff in January 2010 and serves as Operations Manager. She received her B.A. in Political Science from Wellesley College with a concentration in International Politics and War Strategy. Before joining ACFR, she was a desk assistant at The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer. She has been a production fellow at the nightly news show Chicago Tonight, and a sales associate at SEE Eyewear. For a semester in 2008, she served as dorm coordinator, French teacher, and advisor at The Winter Term in Lenk, Switzerland, an American school for adolescents. She was a four year varsity field hockey athlete at Wellesley College. Lauren is currently developing a digital magazine focused on photography and the arts in D.C. Lauren Friedman can be reached at pm@acfr.org. |



