2023 USSYP Yearbook - Flipbook - Page 10
MARCH 4–11, 2023
61st Annual Washington Week
SATURDAY, MARCH 4
TUESDAY, MARCH 7
Arrival and Welcome Day
Announcements and meeting
of Military Mentor Groups
THE DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
CIVIL RIGHTS DIVISION KEYNOTE
AND PANEL DISSCUSSION
SUNDAY, MARCH 5
Historic overview tour of GEORGE
WASHINGTON’S MOUNT VERNON
Exhibition and Tours of THE JOHN
F. KENNEDY CENTER FOR THE
PERFORMING ARTS
Kristen Clarke
Assistant Attorney General
for Civil Rights
STATE DEPARTMENT and
INSTITUTE OF PEACE
LUNCHEON
Lise Grande
President and CEO,
U.S. Institute of Peace
Formal Introduction of Military
Mentors and program welcome by
Dino Dinovitz, Executive Director
of The Hearst Foundations
Bill Russo
Assistant Secretary of State in the
Bureau of Global Public Affairs
MONDAY, MARCH 6
Dereck Hogan
Principal Deputy Assistant
Secretary of State Bureau of
European and Eurasian Affairs
Robert H. Henry (USSYP OK-1971)
Former Chief Judge, U.S. Court of
Appeals for the Tenth Circuit
Sonceria Ann Berry
Secretary of the Senate
Elizabeth MacDonough
Senate Parliamentarian
Carla Hayden
Librarian of Congress
Betty Koed
Senate Historian
Sonia Sotomayor
Associate Justice of the
U. S. Supreme Court
Opening Dinner:
Senator John Hickenlooper
Democratic Co-Chair of the
61st Annual United States
Senate Youth Program
Michael Yaffe
Vice President,
Civic Engagement and
Scholarship U.S. Institute of Peace
Appreciation Remarks from
William Randolph Hearst III
President, The Hearst
Foundations
Tour and lecture:
THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES
Debra Wall
Acting Archivist of the
United States
Senate Co-Chair Dinner:
Senator Shelley Moore Capito
Republican Co-Chair of the
61st Annual United States
Senate Youth Program
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WEDNESDAY, MARCH 8
FRIDAY, MARCH 10
Miguel Cardona
U.S. Secretary of Education
Avril Haines
Director of National Intelligence
Soledad O’Brien
Anchor and Producer,
Matter of Fact with Soledad O’Brien
Stephanie La Rue
Chief of Diversity, Equity and
Inclusion Office of the Director
of National Intelligence
61st ANNUAL SENATE RECEPTION
Wreath Laying Ceremony at
Arlington National Cemetery
THURSDAY, MARCH 9
Vivek Murthy
U.S. Surgeon General
Senator John Thune (R-SD)
Senate Minority Whip
Rachel Skaar (USSYP MT – 2014)
Press Secretary for
Senator Michael Bennet (D-CO)
WHITE HOUSE TOUR
Ambassador Dinner:
Suzanne McCourt
Deputy Ambassador from
Australia to the U.S.
Pentagon Visit:
Mark Milley
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs
of Staff
Ramón Colón-López
Senior Enlisted Advisor
to the Chairman
Mara Karlin
Assistant Secretary of Defense for
Strategy, Plans and Capabilities
Farewell Dinner and
Flag Folding Ceremony
