Way back when, I worked on the Alaska Chamber of Commerce staff during the heyday of the Soviet Union’s monumental turn toward an era of glasnost under the leadership of Mikhail Gorbachev. The ...

Iowa City is going global as it prepares to join a sister cities program, linking the local community with another city in ...

The cities will celebrate their ‘sister city’ relationship this month, 80 years after the atomic bombings of Japan and against the backdrop of a feared new arms race. This month, on the 80th ...

This Citizen Diplomacy initiative organized by the non-partisan, non-profit USHCA outside Washington D.C. allowed government officials to interact in a positive atmosphere when such meetings were ...

Warm relations between Alaskans and Russians began to shift with the rise of Vladimir Putin and the invasion of Ukraine. In Alaska, feelings on the two leaders’ meeting seemed mixed. By Chris ...

Ph.D., University of Minnesota School of Journalism and Mass Communication M.A., University of Minnesota School of Journalism and Mass Communication 5 year Public Relations Specialist Degree, Siberian ...