Berkley Center

Kevin Boodram (C‘22) is graduating from Georgetown College with a major in government and a minor in religion, ethics, and world affairs. Kevin’s coursework has focused on how cultural factors like religion can be used as tools for diplomacy.

Sarah Brannon (G’22) was a graduate student in the Department of Government at Georgetown University, pursuing an M.A. in American government. At the Berkley Center, Sarah worked with Director of Student Programs Ryann Craig as a student programs assistant.

Grace Chisholm (C’22) is majoring in government with minors in Spanish and religion, ethics, and world affairs. During her time at Georgetown, she interned at the U.S. House of Representatives, the ACLU of Kansas, and Cornerstone Government Affairs. Grace is passionate about public policy and advocacy law. In her free time, she enjoys listening to “The Daily,” taking walks to the Kennedy Center, and sipping iced lattes with friends.

Hari Krishan Choudhari (SFS ’24) is an international politics major in the School of Foreign Service, concentrating in foreign policy with minors in history and German. He works as a program assistant in Georgetown’s BMW Center for German and European Studies, as well as a research assistant in Anthropology. Hari participated in the Global Ethics Dialogues organized by the Berkley Center in the fall 2021 semester, wherein discussions about targeted killing and ethical frameworks for civilians in conflict sparked independent research into the links between these concepts and U.S. foreign policy.

Ryann Craig is special assistant to the vice president for mission and ministry and director of academic initiatives in Georgetown University's Office of Mission and Ministry. From October 2019 through December 2023 she was the director of student programs and an assistant research professor at the Berkley Center, as well as a faculty fellow at the Center for Social Justice Research, Teaching and Service at Georgetown University. Before joining the Berkley Center, she worked in academic support and student advising as assistant director of academic support at the Catholic University of America. She recently served as a copy editor for the International Qurʾānic Studies Association’s journal and monograph series (2016-2018) and has been involved in a number of religious minority cultural heritage preservation initiatives in the United States, Germany, and Israel/Palestine. Craig completed her Ph.D. (Catholic University of America) on the use of Quranic proof texts by medieval Christian Arabic and Syriac authors while in residence as a doctoral fellow at the Tantur Ecumenical Institute in Jerusalem. She is co-editor with Vasile-Octavian Mihoc of A Contested Coexistence: Insights in Arabic Christianity from Theology to Migration (Harrassowitz, 2020).

Jem Dyson (C’22) is a senior at Georgetown University majoring in mathematics with a minor in journalism. Dyson was a student in Media and Social Justice, a Doyle Seminar taught by Ann Oldenburg, assistant director of the Journalism Program at Georgetown, in fall 2021.

Matthew Hamilton (G’24) is a Ph.D. student of political theory interested primarily in international moral responsibility and coercion, expected to graduate in spring 2024. At the Berkley Center, Matt was a graduate research assistant, working with Executive Director Michael Kessler and center scholars Katherine Marshall, Jocelyne Cesari, and Rev. David Hollenbach, S.J., on the Religion and the Crisis of Displaced Persons project. Collaborating with Director of Student Programs Ryann Craig, Matt also served as a preceptor for the Doyle Undergraduate Fellows in summer 2021.

Madeline Hart (SFS’23) was an undergraduate student majoring in international politics with a concentration in international law, institutions, and ethics. She minored in religion, ethics, and world affairs, as well as French. Since coming to Georgetown, Madeline discovered a passion for human rights issues, and she worked as an editorial assistant for the human rights and development section of the Georgetown Journal of International Affairs. She also loved writing and research, and served as the editor for The Caravel’s Middle East and Central Asia section, as well as a member of its editorial board. Madeline was a member of Moot Court, as she was particularly interested in the intersection between human rights, religion, and constitutional law. At the Berkley Center, Madeline was the 2022 Pulitzer Center international reporting fellow; she was a student fellow in the 2021 Doyle Undergraduate Fellows program and was a student academic assistant for Dr. Ryann Craig.