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Virginia Bennett

Senior Director, International Programs, CNA, A Nonprofit Research & Analysis Organization

U.S. Foreign Policy: What Role For Human Rights? 

Young Patron Event 
February 4, 2021
7:00- 8:00pm
Zoom

ABOUT THE SPEAKER

Virginia Bennett is the Senior Director, International Programs for CNA’s Institute for Public Research. A veteran State Department diplomat, she served as Acting Assistant Secretary of State and Principal Deputy for the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor from 2014-2017. Of this meeting with the Young Patrons, she writes,” I am really hoping that we can have a discussion . . . (I am) neither a historian nor an academic expert, but a practically-minded former practitioner of diplomacy who defended America's human rights agenda with pride -- and realized how distant I was from the realities of the U.S. in the process.”