International Relations Expert Shelly Culbertson to Discuss the Syrian Refugee Crisis on November 16

GARDEN CITY, NY, November 2015—The International Studies Program will host Shelly Culbertson, a policy analyst at the RAND Corporation, as she delivers a lecture on the education of Syrian refugees in Jordan, Turkey and Lebanon at Adelphi University on Monday, November 16, 2015, at 1:00 p.m. in the Center for Recreation and Sports, Campbell Lounge Room 1, Garden City, NY. The free event, held in conjunction with International Education Week, is open to the public.

Ms. Culbertson holds an MA from the Woodrow Wilson School for Public and International Affairs at Princeton University. She co-led a multi-year effort to advise the Ministry of Education of the Kurdistan Regional Government of Iraq on improving its K-12 and vocational education systems. Prior to joining RAND, Ms. Culbertson worked as a Foreign Affairs Officer on the Turkey Desk for the U.S. Department of State. She has a book in press on trends shaping the Middle East, to be published in 2016 by St. Martin’s Press.

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