The Mason Spirit

Laila Mokhiber, BA Global Affairs ’09, director of communications at United Nations Relief and Works Agency USA, was named among the top 40 influential Arab Americans under 40 by the Arab America Foundation for 2020.

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George Mason University students come from all 50 states and 130 countries, and they are making a difference in ways big and small.

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As an industry adviser for University Career Services, Philip Wilkerson, MEd Counseling and Development ’12, spends his days advising students who are hoping to pursue employment in creative fields, from the performing or visual arts to events management and tourism.

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In October, Gregory Washington was formally invested as Mason’s eighth president with a formal ceremony and a week of activities.

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When George Mason University doctoral student Emily Sample and Douglas Irvin-Erickson, assistant professor and director of the Raphaël Lemkin Genocide Prevention Program at Mason’s Carter School for Peace and Conflict Resolution, were editing the volume Building Peace in America (Rowman and Littlefield, 2020), the United States was a hotbed of unrest, and it was as if their predictions had come true.

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Christian White, BA Communication ’21, was able to pursue his acting career and finish his degree while appearing in four episodes of a Showtime crime drama starring Kevin Bacon.

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In March 2020, just as the pandemic was beginning, Christine Condo published an essay in the Washington Post that changed her life.

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