Shane Szarkowski

• Pro bono consultancy services for Uganda Community Farm, a “self-help African action on extreme poverty” • Advise UCF founder on public relations and media relations campaigns • Orchestrate strategies to raise UCF's social media footprint and fundraising profile • Manage and plan the expansion of UCF's online presence by way of media outlets, website, blog and popular internet media outlets

•Primary contact and editor for GE Renewable Energy project, researcher on projects for European Commission and Credit Suisse •Editorial services for client media and news briefs, focusing on commercial and finance projects •Research social,digital, and traditional media on topics of strategic interest to the client. Analyze and summarize media impacts for a daily brief on tight, sometimes shifting, deadlines. •Ad-hoc support to PRIME's internal project setup and expansion.

•Research student with a topical expertise in security policy, peace building and identity construction in failed states, specifically Afghanistan, with an eye toward understanding the role of historical interactions to contemporary foreign policy and security debates. •Historical and contemporary documentary research/ analysis. •Plan, organize and deliver undergraduate lectures and seminars. •Attend and present papers to seminars, conferences and workshops.

•Supervised dispatch/communications section of police department. •Responsible for training, discipline, scheduling and competencies of 4-6 dispatchers. •Interviewing and security screening of new applicants •Promulgation, updating and revising of departmental standard operating procedures. •Communications with officers on the street and coordination with other elements (law enforcement, civil, fire and medical service, etc). •Coordinate communications between public and department.

Marine Security Guard •Top Secret Security Clearance [Expired - End Active Service] •Provided internal security for personnel, property and classified materials at United States Embassies. •Awareness of regional threats: extremism, terrorism, governmental instability, and etc. •Organized two annual Marine Corps Balls, events hosting diplomatic, government, and business figures. Deployments: Guantanamo Bay, Cuba MSG Bn, Quantico: Riga, Latvia Colombo, Sri Lanka

Coursework includes: -International Relations in Theory and Practice -Global Political Economy -Readings in Social Sciences -International Development -International Security -Research Methods Dissertation Topic: -A Geneology of the Failed State Discourse

Upper Division courses include: International Law & Organizations, Cultural Geography, International relations, Political Geography, Ethics of Globalization, Russian Politics, European Union, Geography of Global Issues, Civil Rights and Liberties, Geography of Terrorism